Because I Love You

by Tori Rigby

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Pub Date May 17 2016 | Archive Date Jul 31 2016

Description

Eight weeks after sixteen-year-old Andie Hamilton gives her virginity to her best friend, “the stick” says she’s pregnant.

Her friends treat her like she’s carrying the plague, her classmates torture and ridicule her, and the boy she thought loved her doesn’t even care. Afraid to experience the next seven months alone, she turns to her ex-boyfriend, Neil Donaghue, a dark-haired, blue-eyed player. With him, she finds comfort and the support she desperately needs to make the hardest decision of her life: whether or not to keep the baby.

Then a tragic accident leads Andie to discover Neil’s keeping a secret that could dramatically alter their lives, and she's forced to make a choice. But after hearing her son’s heartbeat for the first time, she doesn’t know how she’ll ever be able to let go.

A Note From the Publisher

Name of the cover designer: Michelle Johnson Blue Sky Over Boston Design

Advance Praise

Wow...this book was hard to get through, not because it was bad, but because it took my emotions on quite a ride! I laughed, cried, was angry, and fell in love. The characters were well written, especially since they had to deal with some very deep/intense issues. Tori Rigby did a marvelous job! And...I now have a new book boyfriend: NEIL!!

This story centers around the trials and tribulations of a teen pregnancy, what will the parent[s] think, how will she cope with her peers, what will everyone say, should I keep the baby? Am I capable of being a mother/father?

You're able to easily imagine yourself in their position, you feel the desperation, the heartbreak and completely loss that Andie feels. You're able to connect with her and while everything seems to crumble for her [in a nearly unbelievable way,] you smile, too, because Tori Rigby pulls it all together to make a rather heartwarming novel.

This story is real. Andie could be you, or your daughter, or your friend. Teen pregnancy is a big subject that has big effects on the lives of everyone it touches. And I think Tori has done an outstanding job of presenting it in a way that neither supports nor ridicules the choices surrounding it.

Wow...this book was hard to get through, not because it was bad, but because it took my emotions on quite a ride! I laughed, cried, was angry, and fell in love. The characters were well written...