You & Me, by Stephanie Kepke
Alex had sworn off love - until Candy Hearts mysteriously arrive in her mailbox.
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Book Details:
Theme(s): Family Life/Oriented, Scarred Hero/Heroine, Friends to Lovers
SubGenre(s):
Holiday, Contemporary, Women's Fiction
Imprint:
Champagne
Length:
Rosette
Rating:
Spicy (PG13)
Keywords:
Valentine's Day, steamy Romance, Women's Fiction, Reunion, Second Chance, Candy
Hearts
Page
Count: 59
Word
Count: 14925
Digital
Price: 1.99
COPYRIGHT
© 2016 by Stephanie Kepke
Blurb:
Forty
year old Alex Spencer has given up on love. Having escaped five years earlier
from the verbally abusive and two decades older, Trent Peterson, her life
revolves around her daughter, sixteen-year-old Josie, even if Josie wants
nothing to do with her.
But
with Valentine’s Day looming, Alex’s high school sweetheart, Billy Leibowitz,
whom she kicked out of her life twenty years earlier thanks to Trent’s demands,
has been invading her thoughts. Alex searches for Billy in vain—it seems as if
he’s simply disappeared. Suddenly, Candy Hearts, which Billy sent to Alex every
Valentine’s Day, start arriving in the mail. Is Billy sending the Candy Hearts?
Will this finally be her chance at happily ever after?
Excerpt:
She belonged in blossom pink or cerulean blue, sage green mixed
with crisp white. But, all she wore was black or occasionally
charcoal gray. On my single mom budget, I bought her skinny jeans at Target and
cute cotton tops at Kohl’s.
Still, she wore her baggy sweatpants and that black hoodie that hid her figure.
Not that I wanted her to
flaunt it, but I wanted her to own her beauty. Her glossy, raven hair was kept
in a messy topknot at all times.
Her stormy gray eyes, just like her father’s, almost blue, but not quite, were
ringed in thick black liner. She was
hiding. Better not to be noticed.
I was the complete
opposite at sixteen. I wore tight, faded jeans: bleached and frayed, the denim
almost white; and fuzzy angora sweaters that hugged my curves. My hair was in
wild curls, just as inky black as Josie’s, but never pulled into a bun. The
higher my curls were, the better and I went through a bottle of hair spray a
month. I may have hit my peak back then.
My boyfriend, Billy, was
crazy about me and we were kind of like a verse in a song, a song about longing and perfect love and
innocence. We dated from the time we were fifteen until we were almost twenty.
We were born three days apart
and as we planned our yearly joint birthday party on the beach, I suddenly felt
suffocated. I had celebrated my birthday the same way with the same people for
four birthdays in a row and I just couldn’t do a fifth. I needed to break away
and see what else was out in the world. But, I always wished I didn’t break
Billy’s heart in the process. The song ended as I turned out of the parking lot
and left me wondering what ever happened to Billy Leibowitz.
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About the Author:
An
award winning writer and blogger, Stephanie's second grade teacher told her she
should be a writer and she hasn't wavered in her path since. In her past life -
before kids - Stephanie was an arts reporter and music journalist. She spent
her twenties listening to loud rock bands (including her drummer husband's) in
bars all around Boston and New England. She lives in New York on Long Island
with her husband, three boys and two slightly crazy rescue dogs (one of whom is
three-legged). She lives in between the Atlantic Ocean and the Long Island
Sound and loves to her toes in the sand.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephaniekepkewriter/
Blog: https://stephaniekepke.wordpress.com/
Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Stephanie-Kepke/e/B00SHUYLXM
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