THE REASON IS YOU
*by*
Sharla
Lovelace
BLURB:
Anything but normal…
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.
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.
Excerpt:
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.”
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.”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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.
Sharla is available by Skype for book club
meetings and chats, and loves connecting with her readers! See her website
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THE REASON IS YOU (available in trade paperback online and in
stores)
Mass Market version (978-0425254868)
with new cover available May 7th, and for preorder now!
Tagline: “Sometimes falling into the
past is the way forward.”
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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
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