Never Far (Book #3 in The Never Series)
High School loves are never meant to last, right? They are if you’re lucky enough to meet your one true love as a teenager. Melanie and Jake have one of those once-in-a-lifetime relationships in high school, and they have their lives together all planned out.
However, life doesn’t always go as planned. Jake wants to go to college, but can’t afford it. He decides to take the opportunity that presents itself to get a free college education while serving in the military for four years. Jake is sent off for basic training right after high school graduation while Melanie is left behind to finish her senior year of high school. They are separated further when Melanie’s parents are forced to move to a new town for a new job opportunity and she has to leave the only town she’s ever known and the place she imagined raising a family with Jake.
Melanie finds herself following in Jake’s footsteps and joins the Air Force. Her military training takes her in a different direction than Jake, and they find themselves being separated farther and farther away from one another. Their relationship survives another year apart, but one struggle after another presents itself and they can feel themselves being pulled apart as more time passes.
Their love is strong, but can it stand the test of time and distance? At what point does the wait become too long and the distance too far? Come meet Jake and Melanie and see if the saying holds true that with true love, one is never far from your thoughts or your heart.
Never Alone (Book #2 in The Never Series)
Joe always knew he was going to spend his life in the Army. He made a pact with his best friend, Hunter, when they enlisted together right out of high school that they would never leave each other alone. That was before Hunter fell in love with Julia and changed all the plans.
Lucy dated but could never find that forever guy. She wanted what her best friend, Julia, had with her Army man. She was happy for her friend, but couldn’t understand how Julia could fall in love with a guy she’s never even met. That was until she realized one day that real love needed a foundation in something more than just a physical connection.
As tragedy initially brings Lucy and Joe together in friendship, it soon blossoms into a budding romance. But the hard part isn’t falling in love, it’s staying in love, especially when shrouded in secrets. Secrets have a way of festering and destroying even the most solid of relationships. Not all great love stories begin and end with a nice diamond ring and promises of forever.
This is a story of how two people, Joe and Lucy, discover that love comes in all different shapes and sizes and that no matter the situation, true love will never leave you alone.
Never Forgotten
Julia never imagined a simple letter to a serviceman would lead her to find the love of her life. She didn’t even expect a response from him, but she felt compelled to follow through with the Boy Scout project and let this mystery military man know that his service and sacrifice are never forgotten. But he did write a response letter, and thus began a whirlwind love letter exchange that changes her life forever.
Hunter always saw himself with a lifelong career in the Army. Never in his wildest dreams had he pictured a future with a wife and kids. All he ever had and ever needed in his life was his best friend, Joe, and the Army. They enlisted together and made a pact to always be there for one another. Little did he know that participating in a pen pal program with a Boy Scout Troop would turn his entire world upside down.
The letters start innocently enough with a solid foundation in friendship. It doesn’t take long before the correspondences turn flirty and feelings develop into an unforgettable love. But how does a relationship grow and thrive from a thousand miles away? Can true love stand the tests of distance, time, and obligations?
Meet Julia and Hunter, two individuals whose paths would never have crossed had she never written that letter to an unknown serviceman to let him know he was never forgotten.
J.C. Poole 