Dani Shane just wants her daughter to have what she never did—a normal life. But “normal” leaves the equation when sixteen-year old Riley is found talking to Dani’s only friend, Alex—who has been dead for forty years.
In the small river town of Bethany, Dani never fit in. Being different pushed her to the fringes of society, and even leaving town for two decades didn’t stop the talk. Now that she’s back, so is Alex. Mischievous and sexy and still hot enough to melt her shoes. Between his popping in at inopportune moments and her having to hide her daughter’s new talent, Dani fears that her plans for staying under the radar may be short-lived.
As Dani scrambles to get solid footing under her family, secrets buried for forty years begin to unearth themselves. She and Alex have always been connected, but he is hiding something. The computer is making her hear things. Weird memories that she doesn’t recognize keep popping up in her mind. Then there’s that little thing she hasn’t told her daughter yet—that some of the people she sees aren’t breathing
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My head said to walk
forward, but my feet went numb. Then he looked my direction, and suddenly I was
head-to-toe buzz with blood rushing in my ears. I took a deep breath and
attempted normal as I made it down the steps without tripping.
Riley saw Alex. Riley
wasn’t supposed to see people like Alex.
She had her usual
folded-arms-with-one-hip-jutted stance, looking annoyed as hell, while Bojangles
circled the yard in a frenzy with his nose to the ground. Alex slowly took off
his glasses and locked his blue eyes in on mine with that arrogant little smile
of his. I felt heat radiate from every pore.
“Dani,” he said, low
and smooth, and all the breath left me. “My God, look at you.”
I opened my mouth to
say the same thing, that after twenty-plus years he still looked exactly the
same, hot enough to melt my shoes. But then the mommy gene stood up and waved
and I remembered Riley was there.
He laughed, a deep
throaty sound, as he pointed at Riley.
“I knew it had to
be.”
A nervous noise
squawked from my mouth. Nothing profound like I always imagined it would
be.
“The eyes were the
first clue,” he said with a wink.
Riley frowned, her
expression a mix of disgust and wariness.
“God, you know this
perv? He was here on the car watching me and won’t tell me who the hell he
is.”
He smirked. “The
sweet, gentle nature was the clincher.”
Sharla Lovelace is the National Bestselling Author
of THE REASON IS YOU, BEFORE AND EVER SINCE, and the e-novella JUST ONE
DAY. Being a Texas girl
through and through, she’s proud to say she lives in Southeast Texas with her
family, an old lady dog, and an aviary full of
cockatiels.
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4 comments:
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Thank you so much for hosting me, and I'll pop by again later. Today is the release day for THE REASON IS YOU, so it's actually available now! xoxo
The story sounds interesting
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