Hiya peeps! I've got a brand new contemporary romance to share with you today, and it looks great! Check out the excerpt, and be sure to enter the giveaway at the end of the post! =D
The Truth of Letting Go
~Author: Amy Sparling
~Released: December 19th, 2017
~Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
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The summer before senior year, Lilah Monroe’s parents take a nine-day trip, leaving her as the guardian of her bipolar cousin, Cece. When Cece’s parents died tragically five years ago, she and her brother moved in with Lilah. Her brother soon went missing and was presumed dead.
Lilah and Cece couldn’t be more different. They used to be best friends, but high school has changed them both. Lilah likes order, schedules, and a tidy room. She has plans for her future and won’t let anything derail it, not even Cece whose life is constantly on the edge of chaos. Cece is messy, erratic and sensitive. She also has a reason to believe that her brother is still alive. Despite Lilah’s reservations, Cece tracks down an old friend who believes her theories. Ezra happens to have gotten really handsome since Lilah last saw him. Too bad they never really got along when they were kids.
Knowing the odds are stacked against them, Lilah breaks all of her parent’s rules for order and reason and joins forces with Cece and Ezra to set out on the road in an old RV in hopes of finding her dead cousin. Lilah and Ezra have a love connection amid the chaos, and when they discover what really happened to Thomas, it’s a truth no one saw coming. One that just might get them killed.
In case you didn't know, Amy isn't my real name. It's a pen name I use to publish books and novellas for teens that have a romantic theme.
I chose the name Amy Sparling when I independently published my first book, Deadbeat. I wasn't sure if I would keep the pen name at first--I wasn't even sure if I'd keep publishing. But I got incredibly lucky and found a group of young adults who loved my stories and kept asking for more. You guys seriously have made my writing hobby into the greatest part of my life. I will continue writing books under this name for as long as my readers want them!
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He parks the golf cart and jogs up to us, and so help me God I can’t take my eyes off the way his shirt stretches across his shoulders. It looks sweaty and probably smells disgusting but here I am imagining ripping it off with my hands.
Jesus, Lilah, get it together.
Ezra hugs Cece, wrapping his arms around her and pulling her close, like he really means it. I watch his eyes squeeze shut, the sincerity of his gesture giving me this weird pain in my chest. “I’ve missed you,” he says when he pulls way.
“I don’t recall us being friends,” Cece says, lifting an eyebrow. “But I get the sentiment.”
He laughs and it’s at this very second that he looks over and notices me, like really recognizes me, for the first time. “Lilah?” He says it like he doesn’t believe it. Like I died too, and now I’m a ghost and I’m the last person he expected to see here with my cousin, who used to be my best friend and has lived with me for half a decade.
“Is it really that surprising?” I say.
His lips—long, smooth, and the perfect shade of pink—split into a grin and he rushes over to me. I’ll admit, I’m wanting one of those hugs he gave to Cece, if only to confirm that he does smell like sweat, so I stand up and let him throw his arms around me.
And yeah, he smells. But beneath the sweat, there’s a hint of summer sunshine and men’s deodorant.
It’s possibly the best hug ever.
