About The Book:
Title: Forget You
Series: Cold Creek Companion Series #4
Author: Jennifer Snyder
Genre: New Adult Contemporary
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Eva Bennett might be known for her candid approach and sharp tongue, but on the inside she’s still a vulnerable twenty-four year old who’s sick of kissing toads and being habitually single.Full of comical one-liners and wielding a charming smile, Sawyer Keeton is more than meets the eye. After the news of his brother’s tragic death, however, Sawyer is pulled into a place filled with crippling emotions and pain—a place no one can seem to reach him…until the moment Eva steps into his life.
A twist of fate will bring them together and then tear them apart, forcing the two to learn there are people in life whom you cherish and pray will never forget you.
Excerpt:
“Do you have any tattoos?” I grabbed my drink. Playing with the straw, I stared at him as I waited for his answer. Everything else had been answered correctly, by my standards, and I found myself silently praying this answer would be right too.
Sawyer’s lips quirked into a slow smile. “Tattoos? Is that something you’re in to?”
“I’m the one asking the questions here,” I countered in a failed attempt to deflect how desperately I wanted his answer to be yes.
His brows rose to his hairline at my tone. “Okay. Yes, I do.”
My heart kick-started. Damn, Sawyer was perfect on paper. He didn’t live with his parents; he had a car, a job, muscles, and tattoos. Lauren would be proud I’d found someone bona fide.
I arched an eyebrow. “What of and where?”
There was a serious need to know festering inside of me. He pulled off his jacket, and placed it on the back of his chair. My eyes fixated on him as he pushed up the sleeve of the long John beneath his polo shirt and flashed me a script tattoo along his forearm. Leaning over, I read:
With pain comes strength
Reaching out, I felt along the smoothness of the words without thinking. Was this a military thing, or just a lifelong reminder?
“What made you decid to get those specific words?” I pulled my hand away, and leaned back in my seat, eager to know his reasoning behind it.
Sawyer tugged his sleeve back into place, and shrugged. “It’s the truth. The things that hurt us the most make us stronger in life. It also goes hand in hand with my military training. The pain from pushing myself physically and mentally only helped to make me stronger in the end.”
I had a feeling the words meant more to him in the first aspect than the second.
“It’s beautiful,” I said.
“Thanks.” He chewed on the inside of his cheek as though he were lost in thought.
“Do you have any more, or is that the only one?”
The trance he was under lifted and his eyes locked with mine again. He grinned. “Are you a tattoo junky?”
“I’m the one asking the questions for the moment, remember?”
“Right, I forgot.” He chuckled. “I have one more. I can’t show it to you in public though, at least I don’t think.”
I tilted my head to the side. “Oh really?”
“Yeah, it’s definitely in one of those you-show-me-yours-I’ll-show-you-mine places.”
“Ah, okay. Maybe some other time, then.” I grinned, liking the flirty tone to his words more than I should.
“I hope.” He flashed me an impish grin.
Dear God, me too. Thoughts of where this mystery tattoo could be spread through my mind like a wildfire. I hoped it was somewhere nice, like somewhere along the sexy V I was positive I remembered him having. My teeth sank into my bottom lip as I continued to think of all the places it could be.
Sawyer’s lips quirked into a slow smile. “Tattoos? Is that something you’re in to?”
“I’m the one asking the questions here,” I countered in a failed attempt to deflect how desperately I wanted his answer to be yes.
His brows rose to his hairline at my tone. “Okay. Yes, I do.”
My heart kick-started. Damn, Sawyer was perfect on paper. He didn’t live with his parents; he had a car, a job, muscles, and tattoos. Lauren would be proud I’d found someone bona fide.
I arched an eyebrow. “What of and where?”
There was a serious need to know festering inside of me. He pulled off his jacket, and placed it on the back of his chair. My eyes fixated on him as he pushed up the sleeve of the long John beneath his polo shirt and flashed me a script tattoo along his forearm. Leaning over, I read:
With pain comes strength
Reaching out, I felt along the smoothness of the words without thinking. Was this a military thing, or just a lifelong reminder?
“What made you decid to get those specific words?” I pulled my hand away, and leaned back in my seat, eager to know his reasoning behind it.
Sawyer tugged his sleeve back into place, and shrugged. “It’s the truth. The things that hurt us the most make us stronger in life. It also goes hand in hand with my military training. The pain from pushing myself physically and mentally only helped to make me stronger in the end.”
I had a feeling the words meant more to him in the first aspect than the second.
“It’s beautiful,” I said.
“Thanks.” He chewed on the inside of his cheek as though he were lost in thought.
“Do you have any more, or is that the only one?”
The trance he was under lifted and his eyes locked with mine again. He grinned. “Are you a tattoo junky?”
“I’m the one asking the questions for the moment, remember?”
“Right, I forgot.” He chuckled. “I have one more. I can’t show it to you in public though, at least I don’t think.”
I tilted my head to the side. “Oh really?”
“Yeah, it’s definitely in one of those you-show-me-yours-I’ll-show-you-mine places.”
“Ah, okay. Maybe some other time, then.” I grinned, liking the flirty tone to his words more than I should.
“I hope.” He flashed me an impish grin.
Dear God, me too. Thoughts of where this mystery tattoo could be spread through my mind like a wildfire. I hoped it was somewhere nice, like somewhere along the sexy V I was positive I remembered him having. My teeth sank into my bottom lip as I continued to think of all the places it could be.
Guest Post:
Forget You was a story that I never intended to write. It wasn’t planned at all. In fact, I didn’t even know who Eva was until she introduced herself to me in Control You. She was never a thought out character. I never intended for Cam (from Control You, Coldcreek Book 2) to have a female friend, and especially not one as snarky and sarcastic as her. Nonetheless, Eva Bennett was created in Control You and her voice stuck with me in ways I could have never imagined. Instantly I knew this witty girl had to have her own story.
Sawyer Keeton—who plays Eva’s love interest in Forget You—was never intended to be so broken. My thoughts on him were two things: he needed to be in the National Guard, and he needed to be comical as could be. I wanted him to be filled with witty one-liners, a sweet guy who wasn’t super arrogant, and as far from boring as possible.
When it came to the plot of Forget You, I honestly didn’t think I would be able to pull off everything I had planned for the couple from the very start. After tons (and I mean tons) of research—because I always manage to write characters who are a part of things I know nothing about—I was finally able to get a good grip on the finer details. I sat down at my laptop and wrote the bulk of Forget You in two weeks. The story just poured through my fingertips and magically appeared on my laptop screen one sentence at a time.
The title is one that fits perfectly for the story. It stemmed from this sentence in the novel “…when you forget something—or in this case someone—there was no way anything about them could hurt you anymore.” This sentence was actually what prompted the entire story of Forget You. In the novel, it became a mantra of sorts for Eva for reasons I won’t spoil for you. ;)
About The Author:
Jennifer Snyder lives in North Carolina were she spends most of her time writing New Adult and Young Adult Fiction, reading, and struggling to stay on top of housework. She is a tea lover with an obsession for Post-it notes and smooth writing pens. Jennifer lives with her husband and two children, who endure listening to songs that spur inspiration on repeat and tolerate her love for all paranormal, teenage-targeted TV shows.
SHATTERED SOUL was my debut novel and no, you haven’t seen the end of me yet…
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