Now and Forever

About the Book

Alexandra Frost has lost her mind. Well, not really. She just can’t remember the first eighteen years of her life. Jace Tyler McKinney, on the other hand, remembers all too well. He remembers how he and Lexi, as he calls her, planned to elope the day of their high school graduation. He remembers how much they loved each other. And he remembers how an accident on the early morning of their graduation took her life. Felix Ogden, driver of the truck in the accident, has never forgotten the two people who he believes destroyed his. The three of them collide ten years after the accident. Who will survive? Will it be Lexi whose memory escapes her? Will it be Jace who has never forgotten the love of his life? Or will it be Felix Ogden who is on a collision course with death. On the night of their graduation, Lexi and Jace are involved in a car accident that leaves Lexi in a coma. After giving his statement to the sheriff, he goes back to the hospital where her mother tells him that she has died. Heartbroken, he realizes that there are no ties left in Bryan, Texas; the town where he found and lost the love of his life. So he joins the Marines with his best friend, Lincoln Gray, and never goes back. Over the next years, he builds a new life. But Lexi is still in his head. And no woman has come close to replacing her, Lexi, however, didn’t die, but awoke from her coma without her memory. Her family moved to Seattle, taking Lexi with them. The only truth she knows of her life before the accident is what her parents tell her. And they didn’t tell her about Jace. Years after the accident that took her memory, something draws her to the bayou city in Texas, not realizing that Houston was the place where she and Jace were going to pursue their careers: his in law enforcement, hers in the medical field. Ironically, they both attain their profession, but without each other as they had planned. In Houston, she gets her medical career on track, and becomes engaged to her partner and best friend, Doctor Ben Maddox. Except she realizes she’s not in love with Ben, but with a fantasy dream lover. Could this man she can’t put a face to, be out of her past--a past she can’t remember? For ten years, Jace has tried to bury his love for Lexi. Still, memories of her haunt him. When, as a homicide detective for HPD, he is called to investigate a murder, he comes face to face with the woman he’d tried and failed to forget. One he thought had been dead and buried years ago. And the flesh and blood woman doesn’t remember him. Heartbroken, he realizes that not only will he have to find a killer, but once more he’ll have to walk away from the only woman he will ever love. Lexi is the prime suspect in her partner’s death, and unless Jace and his partner and best friend, Lincoln Gray, can find the killer, she could go to jail for a crime she didn’t commit. Felix Ogden was jailed for a crime he blamed on two kids out for a good time. The accident, ten years earlier, caused him to lose everything—his family, his job, his home. They ran the stop sign, not him. But a jury found him guilty and he was sent to jail. All this time, he has plotted revenge on the two of them for destroying his life. Now he plans to destroy theirs. Plans that took ten years in the making didn’t put love into the equation. Jace steps in and does his best to thwart Felix’s long laid plans. First, Felix kills Lexi’s partner. He gloats when the cops look to her as the killer. Then he kidnaps Letty, Jace’s best friend, Lincoln Gray’s, wife. Felix wants the two who ruined him to suffer before they die, just as he’s suffered. And Jace does suffer. Linc is his brother, the buddy who saved him from himself in the Marines. Linc, Letty and their baby are Jace’s family. Jace takes on the job of protecting Lexi while Linc hunts for his kidnapped wife. Felix makes his final move. He kidnaps Lexi and Jace. Felix’s plan is to kill them in a staged car accident that m

About the Author

Mitzi Pool Bridges resides in College Station, Texas with her husband. She would like to hear from her readers and can be reached at mitzipb@verizon.net