Today on my blog I have the Learning to Love Again blog tour. On my stop there is a spotlight and excerpt.
Title: Learning to
Love Again
Author: Kelli Heneghan
Series: Currently a Stand Alone with Potential to be the
first in a Series
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Self-Published
Release Date: July 2015
Edition/Formats: eBook & Print on Demand via Amazon
Blurb/Synopsis:
What do you do if Fate gives you a second chance at the love of your life? Do you learn from past mistakes, or do you
relive them? Nicole Winters is about to
find out. After suffering severe
injuries in a car accident, she is lucky to be alive. She has to return to her home town to
recover, only to discover her family has been withholding information and the
doctor on her case is none other than her college sweetheart, Jason Marrow. The man she dumped right before graduating
from law school and leaving Texas. Once
back in her hometown, Nicole realizes that she has allowed the ghosts of her
childhood to rule her life. As she faces
her past, and with the help of her family and friends, she realizes the love
between her and Jason never faded. Can
they recapture what they had and build on it?
Can she move beyond the past and Learn to Love Again?
Excerpt:
Jack left the hospital and sat in his silent pickup truck,
watching the traffic as it sped by.
There was a reason he’d elected not to practice law in a big city and
traffic had been at the top of the list.
The constant backstabbing he’d seen as everyone tried to get ahead in
the private practices hadn’t made him a fan of working in the city, either. There was also the added benefit of being his
own boss and getting to pick and choose his clients. Small town law was where he belonged.
He hit the button on his phone, allowing it to dial the
number he’d pulled up.
“Did you talk to her?”
Jason’s voice demanded to know as soon as he answered.
“And hello to you, too.”
Jack spat out a wry rebuttal.
“Sorry. Hello. How’s life?
Mine sucks. Now, did you talk to
Nicole?” Jason repeated.
“God, Jason, are we still in junior high? Should I try and pass her a note between
classes next?” Jack was kind of enjoying
torturing his friend. He’d never seen
him this uptight about a woman before.
The fact that it was Nicole, well, he wasn’t sure how he felt about that quite yet. After all, they had been raised as close as
any other siblings, and they knew more secrets about each other than most best
friends.
“Jack! Are you
listening?” His friend’s impatient voice
yelled in his ear.
“Yeah, sorry…zoned out for a minute.” Jack smothered a yawn. “Yes, Jason, I talked to Nicole. She’s upset that decisions are being made
about her life without any input from her, but for now she’s agreed to come
back to Waketon.” He heard a rush of
breath that was released and almost chuckled.
“You need to start setting up the rehab for her and whatever else she’ll
need. I plan to stick around here for
another day-or-so, and then I’ll head home.
That way I can get the ranch ready for her, have Maria set things up
there.”
“And then maybe I can figure out what the hell happened ten
years ago and why she kicked me to the curb.”
There was a resigned sigh over the line.
“Dude, I start call tomorrow, so if anything comes up, text me. The way my luck has been running, every
orthopedic emergency in ninety-seven counties will happen in the next
seventy-two hours.
Jack chuckled and hung up the phone, shaking his head over
the knots Nicole still had that poor guy in.
Book Links:
Cocktails
& Characters (for the main characters)
Choose 4
or 5 of your characters tell us what their favorite cocktail is and why.
Jason: Beer—Shiner Bock—hometown
brew for the hometown boy
Nicole: Jack Daniels
and Coke—she needs the whiskey to drown out the ghosts of the past
Jack: Jack Daniels
and Coke—he has his own ghosts
Mitch: Beer—Shiner
Bock—he may not be a hometown boy, but he’s from Texas.
Carly: White
wine: but she’s pregnant, so she’s not
drinking!
Kelli grew up all over the East Coast but her
family finally settled in Cincinnati long enough for her to finish high school
and college. She has always loved to read books and write her own
stories. In high school, she used to
pass around the latest chapter of the story she was writing for her friends to
read. There is more than one high school
teacher out there that can probably remember telling her to put the book down
and pay attention to the lectures.
Graduating from the University of Cincinnati with her BS in Nursing, she left
Ohio for Texas and the U.S. Army. She received a medical discharge for a
knee injury, but was able to meet the man she'd one day call her husband
first--thanks to some mutual friends who insisted they would perfect
together. And what do you know--they are!
She continued to read books
by the dozens and write her own stories.
And then one day, a friend dared her to enter a contest. She didn’t win, but the feedback she received
from the judges convinced her that maybe people were interested in the stories
she wanted to tell.
She still lives in Central Texas, with her husband, two children and 2
dogs.
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Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I would also like to say Thank You to RBTL for letting me participate in this blog tour.
~Sabrina
