DEEPER by ROBIN YORK – Guest Post & Review

DEEPER (Caroline &West #1)

By: Robin York

Publication Date: January 28, 2014

SUMMARY

When Caroline Piasecki’s ex-boyfriend posts their sex pictures on the Internet, it destroys her reputation as a nice college girl. Suddenly her once-promising future doesn’t look so bright. Caroline tries to make the pictures disappear, hoping time will bury her shame. Then a guy she barely knows rises to her defense and punches her ex to the ground.

West Leavitt is the last person Caroline needs in her life. Everyone knows he’s shady. Still, Caroline is drawn to his confidence and swagger—even after promising her dad she’ll keep her distance. On late, sleepless nights, Caroline starts wandering into the bakery where West works.

They hang out, they talk, they listen. Though Caroline and West tell each other they’re “just friends,” their feelings intensify until it becomes impossible to pretend. The more complicated her relationship with West gets, the harder Caroline has to struggle to discover what she wants for herself—and the easier it becomes to find the courage she needs to fight back against the people who would judge her.

When all seems lost, sometimes the only place to go is deeper.

ABOUT ROBIN

Robin York grew up at a college, went to college, signed on for some more college, and then married a university professor. She still isn’t sure why it didn’t occur to her to write New Adult sooner. Writing as Ruthie Knox, she is a USA TODAY bestselling author of contemporary romance, including RITA-finalists About Last Night and Room at the Inn. She moonlights as a mother, makes killer salted caramels, and sorts out thorny plot problems while running, hiking, or riding her bike.

Ten Things West Wishes He Could Do With Caroline

Start over.

Because after she fainted and I carried her up to her dorm room, I spent most of freshman year avoiding her. I wish we hadn’t lost that time we could’ve had together. I would’ve made a move on her sooner if I’d known how things were going to turn out.

Teach her to make a decent baguette.

She’s getting better, but she doesn’t have the touch with the dough yet. She needs more practice.

Take her out to dinner.

Me and Caroline didn’t really do a standard courtship, or the whole boyfriend/girlfriend thing. It would be nice to look at her across a table and spend an hour eating good food, talking about whatever they want, and anticipating what I’m going to do with her after I get her back to my room.

Watch her play rugby.

I guess we wouldn’t technically be “together” if she was kicking ass on the rugby field while I watched, but I’ve never gotten to see it. I always had work during the season. And I have to say, the idea of Caroline throwing herself at some chick’s legs, taking her down to the dirt, rolling around in the mud … this is not something I want to miss.

Get in a car and drive.

I’ve never been on a trip with Caroline. I’d love to take a road trip with her and just go somewhere—the Arch in St. Louis, the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, wherever the fuck. It would be fun if she was with me. Better than fun.

Hang out.

This is going to sound weird, maybe, but when we were together, we always had something we had to be doing. We were studying, or we were dealing with all the shit with her ex, or I was working. We hardly had any time to just be together without getting pulled in some other direction. I’d love to have a week with her and no agenda. We could watch movies, eat, do something with Bridget and Krish and Quinn—all of that normal stuff we never got to savor. I’d savor it now.

Introduce her to my sister.

The two of them have texted, but they’ve never met. It seems wrong—the two most important females in my life ought to know each other, right?

Take another class with her.

I doubt it’s going to happen, because our majors are so different, but I got a real kick of sitting in the same classroom with her, watching her interact with the professor—and I barely knew her then. It would be a real kick to do that again, knowing her the way I do now.

I can’t think of any more.

There’s a couple things I want to do to Caroline, but they’re too personal. That’s not what you’re asking anyway. Or if it is what you’re asking, you’re one nosy fucker.

See what happens next.

More than the rest of them, all I want with Caroline is a shot at seeing what happens next. I want to know where the future’s going to take her, what she’ll do, who she’ll become. I want to know who I’ll be, with her.

I think if I could have anything, that’s what I’d ask for.

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