Goodbye, Orchid

To Love Her, He Had to Leave Her

By: Carol Van Den Hende

Narrated by: Carol Van Den Hende

Good-bye, Orchid asks, "Can love blossom after life changes in an instant?"

One July morning in Manhattan, handsome athlete and CEO Phoenix Walker accompanies his love, half-Asian beauty Orchid Paige, to the airport. Neither believes today is good-bye.

But soon after Orchid leaves, disaster strikes.

Phoenix wakes in the hospital, broken, forever changed.

Now, he’s faced with the hardest decision of his life. Does he burden the woman whose traumatic childhood makes him feel protective of her? Or does true love mean having to say good-bye, Orchid?

Rising from ashes is hard. Leaving the one you love is harder.

For fans of Me Before You and The Fault in Our Stars, Goodbye, Orchid asks: “What choice does a wounded hero have when loving his woman means breaking his own heart?”

©2020 Carol Van Den Hende (P)2020 Carol Van Den Hende

For a debut novel, she blew me away!

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. Angst: 💔💔💔💔

Cliffhanger: ❌

Do I recommend it? ✔️

Tropes: Contemporary romance, second chance, women's fiction, tragic past

Good-bye, Orchid asks, "Can love blossom after life changes in an instant?" One July morning in Manhattan, handsome athlete and CEO Phoenix Walker accompanies his love, half-Asian beauty Orchid Paige, to the airport. Neither believes today is good-bye. But soon after Orchid leaves, disaster strikes. Phoenix wakes in the hospital, broken, and forever changed. Now, he’s faced with the hardest decision of his life. Does he burden the woman whose traumatic childhood makes him feel protective of her? Or does true love mean having to say good-bye, Orchid? Rising from ashes is hard, but leaving the one you love is harder. For fans of Me Before You and The Fault in Our Stars, Goodbye, Orchid asks: “What choice does a wounded hero have when loving his woman means breaking his own heart?”

I listened to this audiobook and it was an amazing experience. I've never listened to an audiobook where the author narrated the book. She wrote Phoenix and Orchid's story with such raw and realistic emotion. The world building was just right while the characters were well-developed with believable growth. Everything they went through gutted my emotions but I followed each event with rapt attention. The narration was easy to follow and portrayed the emotion felt while she wrote the story. For a debut novel, she blew me away. I highly recommend this read. This is my honest opinion, freely given.

A love story for all of us

I don’t read love stories. Never been my genre but I did and what a cinematic ride this was- with pitch perfect description, those vividly drawn scenes, the characters coming alive off the page. Carol does a phenomenal job of taking the reader along both in the incredible wave of the character’s lives but her descriptions of commerce, culture were possibly my favorite sections of the book- I was there the whole way, traveling.

Such a Great story!

I could not put this book down, I was always chasing to get to the next chapter. So real and authentic! I highly recommend !

So enjoyable!!!

Love this story and characters. Excited to see how it ends but not wanting it to end

Beautifully written story with A+ narration

This was a fantastic listen! The author does an amazing job narrating this story with beautifully layered characters. 10/10 would recommend!