Welcome to the 2017 season of Teaser Tuesday, the blog series where I share snippets from my novels, old, new and in progress, and occasionally let author buddies take over.
Did you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year? We did, albeit stinking hot and that’s continuing with the temperature outside as I write this (Friday 13th – very appropriate) a nasty 44° C, or around 111° F for those who use that measure. Hopefully by the time this blog goes live it’ll have cooled down, at least a little. 44 is ridiculous.
This morning I went book stalking and had a lovely time stroking copies of Wayward Heart and talking shelfies, but the pleasure of that has been nothing compared to the joy of your reader emails and messages saying how much you’ve enjoyed the book. Thank you! Each and every message warms my heart hugely, and leaves me eager to write more.
Newsletter subscribers already know that I’m on a creative binge and have story ideas up the wazoo (i.e. lots), and as we go through the year I’ll be sharing snippets from them, but today is Wayward Heart’s day.
So kick back and enjoy this sample from Digby and Jasmine’s emotional journey, and if you’ve yet to grab a copy, why not treat yourself to an uplifting romance? Go on, you deserve it!
He parted his hands. ‘It doesn’t matter now. It’s over.’
‘Yeah, except it’s not. It’s still here.’ She rubbed her knuckles against her chest. ‘That love. Like Frankenstein’s monster.’
He understood. Even though Felicity was gone, his love remained strong. The only difference was that he knew how pointless it was. Jas probably knew too, but where life existed, so did hope.
‘It’ll take time, believe me.’ He made a self-deprecating noise, like a half laugh. ‘I’m an expert.’
‘You still love her?’
‘Yeah.’
Jas reached to take his hand. ‘I’m sorry.’
Shaking his head, he looked away at the fire. His throat felt thick, his heart bruised. He wanted to tell Jas what it was like, the endless longing, the grief of a million should-have-beens. How one half of him prayed that one day it might end, while the other half clung to her, refusing to let go.
But tonight wasn’t about his lost path to healing. It was about Jasmine’s.
Wayward Heart is available for purchase right now from your local bookshop, discount department store and these excellent stores:
Booktopia | Angus & Robertson Bookworld | Fishpond.com.au
Amazon.com | Amazon.au | Amazon.uk
Kobo | iBooks |Google Play |Barnes & Noble Nook
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Interested in how I came to write Wayward Heart? Read all about it in Of Beaches And Brothers, And Friends to Lovers, the story behind Wayward Heart.
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