That changes when she meets her new neighbor, Hill Dawson, a retired firefighter coping with his own set of traumas after a career-ending injury. As an adult, she channels her fears into a career as a horror writer and true crime podcaster, but she’s still hesitant to let anyone get close to her. As a teen, Andi Lockley was exploited and betrayed by someone she trusted, leaving her with PTSD and anxiety. It will also all help with the online articles she writes under an assumed name that her boss wants to reveal publicly.Loren’s powerful, uplifting second Say Everything romance (after Yes & I Love You) delves into themes of trauma, consent, and recovery. Enter the agreement that he can teach her improv lessons to become more social and she can pretend to be in a relationship with him to help with investors for a new idea he has for a business.

Not a great combination, these 2! Or is it? Maybe Jasper can help her to learn how to come out of her shell. He is overcompensating, as he has always done and learned with the acting and comedy he's fallen into, being a foster child and having such a difficult childhood and past. He overwhelms her on his first day trying to be way too friendly, not realizing that she's shrinking away in her anxiety. She's succeeding! Enter Jasper, the brand new barista at the building's coffee shop. She has started to interact with some people and make new friends with office-mates. She wants to try to live her life in the world, now that she has moved to New Orleans and is on her own for the first time. She doesn't want to be a shut-in any longer, even with all of the anxiety and trying to hide the tics that Tourette's brings (for her, mostly physical and not verbal).

It was just incredible and let me tell you, YOU HAVE TO READ IT! 6 star rating, if that was possible! So good, with a main character battling so many things and winning at life (actually, both of them)! Hollyn suffers from both anxiety and Tourette's, and has stopped hiding herself at home with her work-from-home freelance writing career and got herself an office in one of those buildings where you rent an office among other people with freelance type jobs that want to be working among other people and be social. Wow, just WOW - this book was a pick because of Instagram/Bookstagram influence, and it absolutely did not let me down.

Yes & i love you by roni loren