Today on my blog I have the It Started With A Kiss Book Blast. On my stop I have a spotlight, excerpt, and giveaway.
Lindy
has lived on an acreage in country Western Australia
for the past two years, after moving from the big city of Perth . She shares this laid back lifestyle
with her long suffering and handsome husband, Big G, her two dogs and a flock
of sheep named after the Brady Bunch characters. She also has two fabulously
talented children who are pursuing their own creative careers and will one day
be famous! Lindy began writing at University but never really wanted to be 'an author'. She wanted to be a
Princess or at worst a Kindergarten teacher. Her first novel, Heart of Glass
was penned in 2007 and since then she has developed her voice as a Chick Lit and
Women's Fiction author. Her greatest achievement to date is having a Top Five
Bestseller on the Short Stories List with Amazon early in 2013. Filled with
hilarious and sweet moments the novella, A Cupid Kind of Day, is a good
representation of Lindy's hunorous writing style.
On a good day ~ when not at her day job teaching literacy ~ you can find Lindy
lurking around Twitter and Facebook generally seeing how much useless
information she can impart in 140 characters or less. She's a hopeless U2 and
Bon Jovi fan, a rugby union fanatic, coffee lover, chocoholic,
over-exaggerator, trashy TV, music and iPhone addict. If you can't Google it
then it's not worth knowing!
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Out for a jog one Saturday afternoon, Georgie Bird is
greeted by two things she never expected to see ~ a huge lump of dog doings on
the sole of her shoe and her old boyfriend Nate. Nate and Georgie had been the
only peas in the pod growing up and in the twelve years since they’ve seen each
other, neither of them seems to have forgotten. Over a cup of coffee and a
series of shared recollections, Georgie and Nate begin to rekindle the embers
of the love they lost.
But can they save the relationship or will their one night
of passion bring the closure they never had?
Excerpt:
“You don’t remember me, do you?”
Nate peered at her closely. He was
struggling for recognition that she could see wasn’t coming.
Georgie removed her sunglasses and cap.
Her ponytail swung carelessly and flopped over her shoulder as she looked into
his eyes, trying to trigger his memory. He had to remember her. It would be
soul destroying if he didn’t. Not to mention, more humiliating than having her
name and some rather untrue accusations plastered on the boys’ toilet wall in
her last year of school. One of the male teachers had seen it first. When he’d
confronted her, Georgie didn’t know whether to be embarrassed about the fact
that it was there, or that she had no idea what the lewd action mentioned was.
Georgie and Nate had been together a long time. He’d kept her sheltered.
“It’s me,” Georgie said, hoping that if
she stared straight into Nate’s eyes he’d remember. It was either that or run.
If she did that, his only memory would be of the kooky chick that’d stopped him
on the bike track thinking they knew each other. She’d be an amusing story to
recall at dinner parties.
Nate looked again. Then visibly, his
face began to change. There was a small glimmering hint of recognition and he
was trying to hide it but Georgie saw it. She’d always been good at reading his
expressions.
“Georgie?”
Georgie almost collapsed with relief.
“Yes.”
Nate’s face burst into the grin she
remembered so well. He flicked his sunglasses to the top of his head and rubbed
his hand over his face in disbelief. Mischief wrestled in his eyes, just as it
had when they were young.
“I can’t believe it. Jesus, how long’s
it been?”
Georgie could see him mentally
calculating the time.
“Twelve years.”
If you rounded off the three months,
five days and oh, two hours.
Nate’s grin broadened, as he looked her
up and down, taking in her soggy, ripped leggings, sweaty tank top and missing
shoe.
“You’re still a fashion plate, then?”
“Don’t be smart. I stepped in dog
poop.”
“I wondered what that smell was. I,
sort of, remember your perfume being a heap nicer than that.”
“Sorry. I was trying to get rid of it
when I saw you.”
“By taking a dip in the river? I gather
that’s how you got so wet or do you sweat a lot when you run?”
Georgie glared at him, remembering how he’d always
had an answer for everything. Once upon
a time it used to be endearing, funny even. Now, it was plain annoying. Sort
of. God, Nate was here. Here. This was unbelievable
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Thank you for stopping by my blog today. I would also like to say Thank You to Jaidis for letting me participate in this blast. Don't forget to enter the giveaway below.
~Sabrina
Thanks so much for hosting me on your blog, Sabrina. I really appreciate it.
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