Clash by C.A. Harms

Title: Clash

Author: C.A. Harms

Genre: Contemporary NA Romance

Published: April 12, 2016 
Publisher: Limitless Publishing

It was time to fight back. 

Time to live. 

Too much of my life had already been taken from me by a man that should have protected me. At the hands of pure evil I have lived in fear. When most young women were learning to love, I was fighting to live. 

I had broken free of the hate. 

Finally getting the chance to feel what real love was, but with all good things, bad times seem to follow. At least for me it does. My name is Payton Walters and I refused to allow them anymore of my freedom. 

I will not fall… 

Not this time.

Rating: 4.5*

'Clash' is one of those reads that will have you in pieces with it's sad and tragic story.  It will bring lots of different emotions to the surface as Payton suffers at the hands of her father for years, not just being destroyed physically but emotionally as well.

Dylan is one of the only people who has been by her side throughout, even though he didn't know what she was going through.  Whilst Payton has always harboured feelings for Dylan, her situation and insecurities made her hold back.  One moment changes it all but Dylan's constant stream of women could run Payton away.

This was a real coming of age, self discovery read as Payton rebuilds her life and tries to come to terms with what happened to her.  It was emotionally draining yet uplifting.  Whilst this spoke to me on so many levels, the fact that nobody realised what was happening to Payton shocked, saddened and disappointed me as the signs were all there.  This is definitely a must read.

Prologue

Payton

I was eleven years old when Maggie, my mother, left. Just packed her bags and walked away. She just couldn't deal with it anymore; the hate and anger was all too much. But there was something I would never understand. Why did she choose to leave me behind? It was something I often wondered.

That was seven years ago.

Seven long years of dealing with the backlash of her absence. My father had always been a broody, irritable man—extremely unapproachable. I guess that was one of the reasons my mother chose to leave. That, and the fact he was a heavy drinker. Alcohol, to him, was like breathing; it was something his body had to have to survive. His perpetual intoxication almost always led to a fight between them—a physical fight full of anger. For days I would see the marks of those disagreements gracing my mother’s beautiful face. He tore her down whenever and however he could. I remember lying in bed at night wishing I could stop him, hoping for someone, anyone, to take my mother and me away to safety.

At all costs I found myself doing whatever I could to avoid him. Though he never lay a hand on me before Maggie left, things changed afterward. He became even angrier and more violent; I never even thought that was possible. Those nights of terror I used to listen to my mother live through now became my own.

It didn’t matter what I did or how much I abandoned, in his eyes I still screwed everything up. He blamed me for all that was wrong in his life; it all fell at my feet.

Soon it would all be over; I had plans. All I had to do was finish these last few months of school and I could escape forever. No matter what it took, or how many jobs I had to work, I would be rid of John Walters.

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C.A. Harms is like any other addicted reader. She enjoys happy endings and HEA love stories. She hasn't always been a lover of Romance and had once been addicted to a good Mystery. Just recently she has taken on a new liking and now is a full blown Romance novel addict.

She lives in Illinois and enjoys spending time with her husband and two children. You will always find her with her kindle or paperback in hand as it is her favorite pass time.

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