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Anywhere With You – August 2013

I have so many people that I want to thank.  First and foremost, my husband for your never ending support and encouragement.  There is no way that I could have made it through this process without you.   To my son for all the times that mommy needed just a few more minutes.  I love you both!

To all of my new author friends, you ROCK! Your support means the world to me and I will be forever grateful. Our group discussions help me realize that we are all out there doing what we love and supporting one another is essential to each of us and our success. (AS101)

Sarah Hanson of Okay Creations, another amazing cover.  Thank you so much for your amazing talent!

Mary from Mary Elizabeth’s Crazy Book Obsession, girl you are amazing!  Organizing the cover reveal, release day blitz, to the blog tour and creating the trailer.  Your support means the world to me and I could not have done this without you!

Tiffany Aleman and Ashley Poch thank you for allowing an excerpt of More With You to be included in your new release Serenity Falls. 

Tiffany Aleman thanks for the talks and support.  I am truly blessed that we are friends and I can only hope that I am able to provide you with the same support that you have given me.  I love ya girl!

To all of the bloggers out there…Thank you so much.  Your never ending support of the indie community is greatly appreciated.  I know that you don’t hear it enough so hear me now.  I appreciate each and every one of you and the support that you have given me.  Love Between the Sheets, Just Booked, Helenas Book Obesession, Bad and Dirty Books, LipSmackin Good Books, Stephanie’s Book Reports, Best Sellers & Best Stellars of Romance, Jodie’s Wine List. Thank you to all of you for the support that you have given me.  I know that there are many others who have supported me through this process and I thank each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart. 

To Tami of Integrity Formatting you make it all come together in a pretty little package. Thank you!

To my street team, you ladies know who you are. I will never be able to tell you how much your support means. I will never forget all that you have done for me. Thank you!

Last but not least, to the readers.  Without you none of this would even be worth the effort.  I truly love writing and I am honored that I am able to share that with you.  Thank you to each and every one of you for reading More With You.

Continue reading for excerpts from a few other amazing indie authors…

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Born into a life of privilege and secrets, Nora Blakely has everything any nineteen-year-old girl could desire. She's an accomplished pianist, a Texas beauty queen, and on her way to Princeton after high school. She's perfect. Or is she?

Leaving behind her million-dollar mansion and Jimmy Choos, she changes the course of her life, becoming a girl hell-bent on pushing the limits with alcohol, drugs, and meaningless sex.

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When it comes to girls, twenty-five-year-old Leo Tate has one rule: never fall in love. His gym and his brother are all he cares about...until he meets Nora. He resists the pull of their attraction, hung up on their six year age difference.

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This is an excerpt of
Luck and Faith
,
book 2 in the Luck Series written by Tiffany Aleman and Ashley Poch.

*This excerpt is unedited and subject to change*

Synopsis:

Moving forward is hard.

Forgiving yourself is harder.

After Derrick found Blake in an alley beaten and broken, life changed—for him and for her.

Circumstances force Blake back to the place where it all began. When she receives a call from her mother, her world suddenly slips from beneath her. After a chance encounter, will Blake be strong enough to keep the nightmares from suffocating her once again? Surrounded by her memories, can Blake finally accept that the past is just that… the past?

The sight of a battered, lifeless Blake forces Derrick to realize that forgiveness is necessary because mistakes are just that… mistakes. Derrick begins searching for the past that he has avoided for most of his life, hoping to close that chapter and begin a new story. Will the outcome free him to embrace the destiny he seeks and allow to move forward?

Some truths are hard to face. Landon learns this first hand. After learning he’s fallen in love with the same girl his best friend loves, truths and secrets are revealed. Will he be able to handle it?

Can Derrick and Blake learn from the lessons taught by their pasts? Will they come together through new life, stronger and prepared to face whatever life throws their way? Or will the shadows of the past attempt once again to tear them apart?

CHAPTER 1

Derrick

Pain. Excruciating pain tears at my soul as I watch the paramedics tend to Blake. Standing by helplessly in the shadows, I watch them poke and probe her battered body. The guilt is suffocating, knowing that my actions are what led her to run away. Numbness begins to swallow the pain. Everything’s in slow motion—every word, every sound, every movement. I can hear the paramedics talking. I watch as they wheel the gurney over to her body, I watch them lift her onto it. I know I should be trying to do something, but I’m a bystander frozen in time.

Ringing in my ears snaps me out of my haze. Reality slams into me like a freight train. Through blurred vision I watch as the paramedics lift Blake into the back of the ambulance. The only thing that comes to mind is—run. Sprinting at full speed, I shove my arm in between the ambulance doors just as they begin to close. I’m breathless as I rip the door open. “I have to ride with her.”

The paramedic must realize that I’ve left no room for reason. He nods his head, gives me his hand and hoists me into the ambulance. I climb onto the bench seat next to Blake, cradling her limp hand in between mine. My elbows rest on my knees as I rest my forehead on top of our joined hands. Teary eyed, I pray to God that she’s okay. Drowning out the screams of the sirens and the voices of the paramedics, my fingers drift down her wrist coming to rest on her pulse. I focus on the faint thud of her heart-beat. Instantly, I calm myself down matching my rhythm with hers.

I’m jolted out of my trance as the ambulance screeches to a halt. The doors swing open with doctors and nurses crowding the exit. I’m silently encouraged by the paramedics to move. A team of people help lower Blake out of the ambulance, I’m the last one to escape. With the medical team in tow, I watch as the EMTs rush her body inside and frantically relay her condition. I hurry behind them, trying to catch up with her. No sooner than I think that I’ve made it to her side again, a pair of hands grab my arms pulling me back. With my breath coming in spurts I hear a soft woman’s voice, “Sir you can’t go back there.”

“What do you mean I can’t go back there?” I all but shout at her. She waves her hand to the set of double doors with a sign that reads “Medical Personnel Only”. My knees buckle and I collapse to the floor below. My chest heaves up and down as the pit in my stomach sinks deeper and deeper.
There really is nothing I can do.
Everything that has happened from Blake and Landon, to seeing Blake’s barely lifeless body, to going into a blind rage beating the shit out of that guy, I fall apart. I. Literally. Break. Down. With uncontrollable sobs I say in between breaths, “She needs me. I love her. I need to be with her.” I say this mostly to myself. Warm gentle hands grab me below my arm. Slowly, the person helps me stand. I look to see the owner of the hands. Dressed in dark blue scrubs, a nurse guides me to the waiting room and helps me to sit. I try to compose myself as I rest my elbows on my knees cradling my head in my hands.

What seems to be hours later, is only minutes in reality, I sit up and run my fingers through my hair taking deep calming breaths. I can’t just sit here. I need to do something. I quickly stand and exit the waiting room, nearly running to the nurses’ station. Deciding to take matters into my own hands, I spot a nurse with salt and pepper hair and green scrubs sitting behind a computer. She smiles at my approach. “Can I help you?”

“Yes. What’s going on back there?” I ask with a slight edge to my tone.

“Who are you talking about, sir?”

“Blake Riley.”

Picking up a clip-board with paperwork attached to it she says, “Sir, why don’t you fill out this paperwork and I’ll try and see what I can find out, okay?” My eyes flicker from her to the clipboard. She’s serious. This woman wants me to fill out paperwork. My girlfriend nearly had the life beaten out of her and this woman is worried about me filling out paperwork.

In a deadpanned expression I look at her like she’s lost her mind. “I’m sorry, you want me to fill out paperwork?” My tone is condescending as I try to rein in my temper before I combust. I rake my fingers through my hair, tugging on the ends, I look back at the nurse and say in the calmest tone possible, “If you could please just tell me something—anything.”

Let Me In
by Michelle Lynn

Synopsis:

Grant is damaged, selfish, and undeserving of love…or so he thinks.

Jessa is happy, in love, and has overcome her past…or so she thinks.

Grant and Jessa can’t stop thinking about one another since being introduced at a party a month ago. And despite their differences, they can’t seem to stay away from each other either. However, both are hiding secrets of less-than-perfect pasts, fearing what will happen when those mistakes come to light. As they grow closer, they each battle their own insecurities, and neither believes that they are worthy of the kind of love that they both still want. So if it’s true that opposites attract, what happens when the similarities begin to surface?

Excerpt

My mind races as I’m leaving the lecture hall. Pulling my gloves and hat on, I watch Grant’s large frame walk quickly in the other direction. How can your heart and mind be in two more different places? My heart screams for Grant every time we’re around each other, but my mind won’t let me take the step. Make that a giant leap.

The thing that scares me the most is that he doesn’t truly want it.  I can feel his desire for me throughout my whole body when he’s near, but then he pulls back just as fast. Then again, the last thing I want is to stay with Rob just for the sake of having someone.  I’m stronger than that and I know it. 

Before Jason, I wouldn’t have thought twice about breaking things off with Rob and running toward Grant. Fuck Jason for making me doubt my self-worth. My therapist’s words ring in my head from my last session: ‘You have to live again, Jessa. Go, and be happy. You’ve done the work, now reap the reward.’ Dr. Hinkle was the one who convinced me to leave Boulder and start fresh somewhere else. And that’s exactly what I did last semester.