tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5222885231429399622024-03-13T22:19:57.193-07:00Melody GraceMelody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-12422947718205792332015-01-21T21:59:00.000-08:002015-01-21T21:59:03.331-08:00Beachwood Bay cover reveals!<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: -72pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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The DIRTY DANCING series is a 3-part serial releasing just a few weeks apart throughout November. Here's the blurb for #1, FIRST POSITION:</div>
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Passionate.<br /> </i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;"><i>Unleashed.<br /> </i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;"><i>It’s not just women either. If you want to know how a man will perform between the sheets, just take him to the nearest dance floor. You’ll learn everything you need to know. His stamina, his rhythm, the slow grind of his hips. Some people are born to it, others learn through years of careful study.<br /> </i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;"><i>And dancers? We fuck best of all.<br /> </i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;"><i>Our bodies are our instruments, and we use them in a symphony of pure pleasure. We know just how far to push you, the breathless pacing of true art. The rise and fall that will make you beg for mercy; the ache of satisfaction when we give it to you hard and strong.<br /> </i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;"><i>Dancing is the ultimate in sensual pleasure, a timeless erotic ritual that needs no words.<br /> </i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;"><i>I thought I knew what it was like to dance with a skilled partner, a woman who could match my every step. My drive.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;"><i>My passion.<br /> </i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;"><i>Then I met her.<br /> </i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;"><i>Every step she takes conjures wild, dark fantasies in my mind. Every sway of those hips demands satisfaction. My hands on her body. Her lips parted in the sweet gasp of release. Easing those sweet thighs apart and sinking inside deep her, inch by ravenous inch.<br /> </i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;"><i>Her innocence is intoxicating. My lust is fierce. Primal.<br /> </i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;"><i>To watch her dance is to know the torment of true temptation.</i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3b3939; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;"><i>She will be mine.</i></span></div>
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<br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Alicia isn't the kind of girl to kiss a total stranger up against the wall -- no matter how devastatingly sexy he is. But reeling from a broken heart, she runs straight into the arms of Dex Callahan: rock star, bad boy, and the most seductive man she's ever known.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Dex is looking for distraction, at any price. The innocent redhead is just what he needs to keep his demons at bay -- but one taste of her sweetness isn't enough. He needs to possess her, body and soul.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Two searching hearts. One night to discover the passion of a lifetime. Dex is determined to show Alicia the pleasure she's been denied, but can she let go of her heartache and take a risk on the unknown? Find out in the sizzling new novella from USA Today bestselling author, Melody Grace!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">*This book contains adult situations and explicit content. 17+*</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Author's note: UNREQUITED is the beginning of a new chapter in the Beachwood Bay series. It can be read as a stand-alone story, but you'll enjoy reading the other books, too.</span>Melody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-54145814803918756722014-05-04T22:35:00.002-07:002014-05-04T22:35:32.487-07:00Double cover reveal!TODAY'S THE DAY!!<div>
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I'm so excited, today I get to share not one, but TWO hot, amazing covers for my upcoming books! UNREQUITED and UNINHIBITED are the start of a new chapter in the Beachwood Bay series, introducing The Callahans -- a sexy new family with all kinds of secrets :) Starting with Dex Callahan, bad boy rock-star who we caught a glimpse of at the end of the last book. I know you will love him just as much as I do! </div>
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UNINHIBITED (full-length novel) will be released July 21st. <b><u>Pre-order now for <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/uninhibited/id839780424?mt=11" target="_blank">iTunes</a>!</u></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /></i></span><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Two searching hearts. One night to discover the passion of a lifetime. Dex is determined to show Alicia the pleasure she’s been denied, but can she let go of her heartache and take a risk on the unknown? Find out in the sizzling new novella from USA Today bestselling author, Melody Grace!</span></i></span><span style="background-color: white;"><i><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /></i></span><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">*This book contains adult situations and explicit content. 17+*</span></i></span><br />
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Melody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-79222769919974487332014-03-15T17:24:00.001-07:002014-03-15T17:24:33.344-07:00Unbroken sale!To celebrate the anniversary of UNBROKEN, I'm throwing a sale! Like a party, but with bargain books :)<br />
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xoMelody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-10145265469011624082014-03-05T21:27:00.001-08:002014-03-05T21:27:23.763-08:00What Unbroken means to me….<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hey guys,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Celebrating the
one-year anniversary of my publication, I thought I’d do something different.
Unbroken, Unafraid, Unconditional -- the titles of my Beachwood Bay books are
connected to the characters and plot of each novel, but they’re also concepts
that mean a lot to me in my life. So, I’d like share a few stories with you of
experiences I’ve gone through, and ways that these words have been significant
to me. I hope you enjoy them, and learn a little more about me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">‘Unbroken’ is a
beautiful word. It implies wholeness, but more than that, something resilient;
standing strong against the storm. For Emerson and Juliet, those storms are the
forces that try to tear their relationship apart, but the truth is that for me,
one of the hardest challenges I ever faced was remaining unbroken in myself; my
own spirit, my dreams, my identity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was bullied in
school. Not just from time to time, but pretty much consistently between the
ages of seven and seventeen. I had the misfortune of being smart, a bookworm
with big glasses and a fuzzball of hair I’d yet to figure out how to tame. I
was different, I wasn’t pretty, and in school, there’s no greater crime for a
girl. They called me names, ridiculed me whenever I spoke up in class (and
then, when I stopped that, they carried on all the same). Jokes about how ugly
I was, how weird, how repulsive, how it was the worst imaginable fate for me to
even have a crush on someone. There were petty teen girl gossip games, and the
threat of violence from boys who would bombard me with spitballs through every
class, and hurl books at me if I ventured to my lockers unaccompanied. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Alone, these
things may not strike you as too bad, but it’s the relentless misery of it that
was so exhausting to me. A long decade of abuse and ridicule, of being teased
and taunted and excluded. A war of attrition, getting up every day knowing that
school will be a battle, coming home and crying almost every night. Death by a
thousand paper cuts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Worst of all was
the loneliness. I would have periods blending into the crowd, tagging along on
the edges of a group or social circle, but through it all, I felt so dreadfully
alone. I wasn’t like the kids around me, my mind worked in a different way. I
wasn’t interested in drinking and hooking up with guys, I didn’t fit with the
Church groups, and I wasn’t a sci-fi engineering geek like the group of nerdy
guys who hid out together in the library at lunch. I was out of step with
everyone around me, and it was hard for me to imagine a time when I would be
free from the judgment and loneliness and every-day humiliations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">But I did. I
imagined, I dreamed. About sunshine and blue skies, happiness, and success. I
daydreamed a million other lives for myself, and I clung to that vision of some
future life with everything I had, keeping my head down against the abuse,
working hard, scribbling stories and poems in my notebooks in the back of
classes I knew better than to speak up in. I would get out, to a good college.
I would find people like me. I would make it so that lonely teenage girl hadn’t
suffered in vain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would make it
all worthwhile somehow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I wish I could
go back in time show that lonely, sad girl what the future has in store for
her. That one day, she’d be sitting in a sun-drenched apartment in California,
writing books and sharing her stories with the world. That there would be a
time when she wakes up every day, feeling happy, and free, and loved. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m not saying
it was easy. It’s been a long road to get me here. I’ve been rejected, and
disheartened; seen friendships build and crumble, faced stress and financial
pressures, but none of them dented my resolve. I told myself, the worst was
over. If I could survive that, then I could face anything. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I see now, how
those years shaped me. When you’re under attack every day for the simple fact
of being yourself, you can choose one of two paths. You can change, hide, strip
away everything that makes you unique to try and blend into the crowd. I
understand it, I saw other kids do just the same. Anything to make it through.
But I couldn’t. If I was going to be abused, then I would have to love myself
enough to balance it out. I became strong because I had no other choice, and
that strength has stayed with me, through everything else the world has thrown
at me since. For that, I will always be grateful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">People have
asked why I’m making such a big event of the Unbroken anniversary, and the
first year of the Beachwood Bay novels. I’ve written other books, and series
are released all the time. Well, part of it is that I’m proud of the books, and
it’s so much fun to celebrate them with you readers; to share pics, and
favorite scenes, and relive the heartbreak and passion. But part of it is a
celebration for me too – for the girl I used to be, and everything I’ve
overcome to be here. I’m not just celebrating the books, but all the blessings they’ve
brought into my life. It means so much to me because for many years, the vision
of this life that I dreamed about – one filled with friendship, and creativity,
and independence – was the one thing that kept me unbroken in the face of my
own storms. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’m so happy to
be here, on the other side, sharing my stories with all of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Xo<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Melody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-9291557354027284652014-02-27T15:22:00.002-08:002014-02-27T15:22:24.957-08:00Unconditional excerpt!Wow, time flies, it feels like only yesterday I was sitting down to start writing this book, and now it's just two weeks until publication!<br />
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I've been run off my feet moving apartments, and preparing for the big launch. Here's a sexy little excerpt to get you in the mood!<br />
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xo<br />
Melody<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;">A noise comes. A shadow rears up in the dark. I scream.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “What the hell?”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> Panic claws my chest and I scream again, reaching blindly for something to fight him off. Squatters and junkies and all kinds of dangerous men fill my mind as my hand closes around something solid on the hall table and I swing with everything I’ve got.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “Goddamn!” The figure reels back, stumbling against the wall.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “Get away from me!” I cry, shaking. My heart is racing so fast I think it might beat right out of my chest. I grip the object in my hand tighter. “Don’t touch me!”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “I’m not trying to touch you!” the man roars, angry. “I just want to know what you’re doing breaking into my goddamn house!”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> The light flips on. I reel back, blinded by the sudden glare, but as the daze clears and my eyes flick back into focus, I see the man in front of me for the first time.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> I stop breathing.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> He’s half-naked, that’s the first thing I notice. Jesus, his body is like nothing I’ve ever seen before: tanned bronze and chiseled like a Greek god, but not like the guys I’ve dated, all waxed and pumped from hours at a fancy gym. This guy is real, raw, all muscle and power, with a web of dark tattoos snaking over the bicep of his right arm. I feel a flush roll through me, hot with prickling awareness, but I can’t look away as I take in his tight, sculpted six-pack abs, and the trail of dark hair leading down to the waistband of his navy briefs…</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “Don’t mind me, darlin’,” his voice comes. “Any time you’re done looking…”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> I snap my eyes up to his face, blushing. Then I look at him for real and it all clicks into place.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “Oh.” My heart clenches in my chest as I recognize him for the first time. “It’s you.”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> Unshaven face. Messy bronzed bed-head hair. And a pair of stormy ocean-blue eyes scowling at me like I’m the last person on earth he wants to see.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> And, I can say, the feeling is entirely mutual.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “It’s me,” Garrett Sawyer agrees in a low, Southern drawl. He strides over and snatches the vase from my hand, setting it down on the table with a thud. “Now, you want to tell me what the hell you’re doing creeping around my house at three in the goddamn morning?”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> I catch my breath, the flush of desire mingling with irritation. I nearly had a heart attack trying to get in here, and he’s the one with an attitude?</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “It’s not your house,” I snap, my heart still racing. “It’s mine.”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “Well, if you wanna get technical, it belongs to Emerson,” Garrett corrects me, glaring. “But I’m the only one here with permission to stay.”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “Why do you need a place?” I try to pull myself together, smoothing back my hair and yanking down my dress. “Don’t you live above that dirty old bar?”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “Nah.” Garrett paces closer, his full lips stretching into a lazy grin. “Usually I just go straight out back and roll around in the filth like a pig.”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> His smile is heart-stopping, a whiskey smile, honeyed and dangerous and just inches away from me now. Despite my irritation, I feel another wave of heat roll through me, automatically rising to his nearness like a magnet spinning off its axis to find true north.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> Damn.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> I ignore the kick of my pulse and fold my arms across my chest. “You’re disgusting,” I retort, ignoring the shiver in my bloodstream.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “And you’re trespassing.” His gaze hungrily drifts over my body. I glance down, and see the rip has torn the skirt to the top of my thigh. I blush, yanking it shut.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “Look, I’m tired, OK?” I exclaim, self-conscious. “I’ve been driving all night, I didn’t know anyone would be here. I just need a place to sleep. Can we save all your territorial bullshit for the morning?”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> Garrett raises an eyebrow at me, like he’s amused. I brace myself for more arguing, but instead, he gives a casual shrug. “Why not?”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> I exhale with relief. “I’ve got a suitcase out front,” I tell him.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> He smirks. “Then you better go get it. Spare bedroom upstairs, I’m sure you know the way.”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> My mouth drops open, but before I can complain, there’s a noise from above us.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “Garrett?” a female voice sounds, and then a woman appears at the top of the stairs. She’s wearing an oversized T-shirt that barely skims her tanned thighs, her dark hair mussed up, makeup smudged around her eyes. “What’s going on?”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “Nothing, honey,” Garrett calls up to her. “Go back to sleep.”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “But it’s cold.” The woman pouts suggestively. “I need you to come keep me warm.”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> Real classy.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> I roll my eyes, watching as Garrett flashes her one of his easy grins. “I’ll be right up, sugar. And then I want my T-shirt back.”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “Come and get it.” The woman giggles, then disappears back to the bedroom, leaving us alone in the foyer again.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “Honey?” I challenge him. “Sugar? Why not just admit you don’t even know her name?”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> Garrett smirks at me. “Sure I do. It’s Lauren, or Laurie. Or maybe it was Lorna…” He frowns, pretending to think, and even though I know he’s just doing it to get a rise out of me, I can’t help but make a dismissive snort.</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “Must be true love.”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> Garrett narrows his eyes. “What I do with my life is none of your goddamn business. So why don’t you quit bitching and let me get back to sleep.”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> I blink, thrown by the sudden change in his tone. “I’m not the one standing around giving me a hard time,” I retort. “I’d be asleep by now if you hadn’t come prowling around, trying to play hero.”</span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><br style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: large; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;" /><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"></span><span style="font-family: Cardo; font-size: medium; line-height: 27px; text-align: left;"> “Whatever you say, darlin’.” Garrett turns away and starts climbing the stairs. Then he pauses, turning back to me with a wicked grin, and says, “But you might want to wear earplugs. Lorna likes it loud."</span></span></div>
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<br />Melody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-78032737605241618072014-02-18T10:29:00.002-08:002014-02-18T10:29:30.862-08:00Sharing a little secret...Hey guys,<br />
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With the one-year anniversary of Unbroken and Beachwood Bay coming up, I thought it was time to let you all in on a little secret: my real identity!<br />
<br />
That's right, Melody Grace is a pen-name, and although I've loved having a secret double life, I can't wait to share more of my real-life adventures with you all. I've got so much planned for Beachwood Bay in 2014, this year is going to rock!<br />
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Find out all the details in this interview over at Hypable!<br />
<a href="http://www.hypable.com/2014/02/18/author-melody-grace-reveals-her-true-identity/">http://www.hypable.com/2014/02/18/author-melody-grace-reveals-her-true-identity/</a><br />
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xo<br />
Melody / AbbyMelody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-85033789093195039062014-02-05T22:07:00.003-08:002014-02-05T22:07:47.572-08:00Unconditional cover reveal!Here it is, the day you've all been waiting for: COVER REVEAL DAY!<br />
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*bounces*<br />
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It's always hard finding models who can live up to the characters in my head, but David and Alison killed it with their performance -- they really brought Garrett and Carina to life.<br />
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So, here it is. What do you think?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">"I’ve spent my whole life chasing perfection: perfect looks, perfect man, perfect home. But in one brutal moment, I realized it was all just a beautiful lie…"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Carina MacKenzie is fleeing from her past. Picking up the wreckage of her shattered dreams, she seeks comfort in the only place she’s ever felt safe: Beachwood Bay.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Garrett Sawyer isn’t looking to be anyone’s savior. Scarred by old betrayals, he’s sworn never to put his heart on the line again -- especially not for a damaged, high-maintenance girl like Carina. But passion knows no logic, and soon, their reckless chemistry is making him forget his bitter vows.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Two damaged hearts. The hope of true love. As their passion blazes out of control, Carina and Garrett struggle to escape their legacies of hurt. But can you ever outrun the past? And when everything is on the line, can they trust enough to build a love that's unconditional?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">*This book contains adult situations and explicit content. 17+*</span><br />
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Melody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-85353028850602265592014-02-03T09:34:00.003-08:002014-02-03T09:34:48.920-08:00Unconditional sneak peek!Hey guys, happy February!<br />
I can't believe the year is moving so fast, before you know it it'll be March 18th ;)<br />
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Coming up this week is the big cover reveal for Unconditional, so to get you ready, here's a sneak peek of Garrett hanging out before the shoot -- and an excerpt!<br />
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This is a scene some of you might recognize from the end of Unwrapped: the moment Garrett and Carina first meet at the wedding. And sparks definitely fly :)<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
xo<br />
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Garrett carefully took down the
bridal arch and carried it to the back porch to store with the rest of the
chairs and decorations for the night. The wedding had been over for hours. It
was dark out now, and everyone else was inside in the warm, celebrating the
happy couple, but he’d insisted on taking clean-up duty. It was the least he
could do for Emerson and Juliet, and besides, he needed the space away from the
crowd.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He worked silently in the dark, snowy yard, bathed in the
glow of lights from the house, and the silvery moon shining bright across the
bay. His breath fogged in the cold, but Garrett didn’t mind: he liked the sting
of crisp air in his lungs, and the pull in his muscles as he dismantled the
heavy wood. Anything to distract him from the memories spinning in his mind,
creeping through his usual defenses and catching him square in the chest like a
sucker punch he’d never seen coming.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They’d looked so happy, Juliet and Emerson. They deserved
it, he knew, but still, it was a thing to see, when she’d appeared at the end
of the aisle and Emerson’s jaw dropped. The way she’d looked, walking towards
him, so full of pride and hope and nervous excitement, Garrett knew that
expression by heart.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was the way his wife had looked at him on their wedding
day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A noise startled him out of old memories, and he looked up.
It had come from out past the woodshed, on the edge of the property down by the
beach. “Hello?” Garrett called, moving closer. “Anyone there?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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There was another muffled sound, and when he rounded the
corner, he found a blonde woman there, fumbling with her phone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Oh, hey, sorry.” Garrett stopped. She lifted her head, and
he recognized her from earlier. Juliet’s older sister, Carina, he thought she
was called. She hadn’t helped with any of the set-up, she’d just arrived at the
last minute for the ceremony in an expensive-looking black dress, watching the
vows with a faint sneering expression, distant and remote.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now, for a moment, her expression was open and unguarded,
her heart-shaped face looking young and alone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Are you OK?” he asked, stepping closer.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Carina flinched back. “Fine,” she snapped, her voice high
and shill. Her face shuttered shut, and in a moment, her expression was aloof
again. “What do you want?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Garrett paused. “You’re cold,” he said, noticing her slim
frame shivering. “Here, you’ll freeze out here without a real coat.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He shrugged off his heavy jacket, but Carina shook her
head, her glossy blonde hair barely moving.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I’m fine.” she insisted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Garrett sighed. “Your feet are turning blue.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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They both looked down to where her ridiculous stiletto heels
were sinking into the snow. Carina looked annoyed. “I didn’t realize they were
serious about having this thing outside. Who gets married in the freezing snow
when they can do it inside, like civilized people?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Garrett felt his patience wearing thin. “Either take my
jacket, or get inside. It would screw up their honeymoon to have you die out
here of pneumonia.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Carina snatched the jacket from him, looking pissed, and
began to totter towards the house.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“A ‘thanks’ would be nice, darlin’” Garrett drawled, walking
behind her.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Carina turned, glaring. “I know just what kind of thanks
you want, and trust me when I say, it’s never going to happen.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Woah there,” Garrett protested, indignant. “What the hell
are you talking about?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I’ve heard all about you,” Carina fixed him with a
penetrating stare. “You’re the good-time bar-keep who has his way with anything
in a skirt. Well, I’m taken,” she told him, holding up her hand so he could see
the huge rock twinkling on her ring finger. “And even if I wasn’t, I’m not that
desperate,” she sneered at him knowingly. “Not in a million years.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Garrett’s temper flared. Here’s what he got for trying to be
gentlemanly: this girl acting like he was something she scraped up on the
bottom of her expensive shoes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You sure about that, darlin’?” Garrett took a step towards
her, narrowing his eyes. “Because judging by the chip on your shoulder and that
stick up your ass, you haven’t been getting what you need for a long, long time.”
He reached out to trail a finger down the side of her bare neck. Carina slapped his hand away, flushing, but not before he saw the shock of awareness
in her eyes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Don’t touch me!” she demanded, her voice carrying in the
empty garden.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Relax, sugar,” Garrett scowled. “You’re not my type. I
prefer my women flesh and blood, not stuck up ice-queens like you.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Carina set her lips in a thin line. “You’re disgusting,”
she informed him, stepping back. Her shoe must have caught on something in the
snow, because she lurched wildly with a cry.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Garrett made to catch her, but then stopped himself. “I
won’t trouble you any longer then,” he told her with a smirk. “You have a nice
night.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He turned and headed back for the house, leaving her there,
balanced on one leg in the snow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Wait!” Carina's voice echoed after him. “You can’t just
leave me like this!”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Garrett kept walking, letting himself into the house with a
smile. He’d let someone know she was out there, send someone to help, but for
now, she could use a moment to cool off. Literally.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A burst of noise and laughter hit him as he stepped inside.
Garrett paused a moment to let it wash over him, chasing the dark memories
away. The past was done, he reminded himself. There was no changing it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He grabbed a beer from the table, and caught the eye of a
girl across the room. She was friends with Brit, he thought, a pretty brunette
who seemed sweet enough. That was what he needed, he decided, taking a first
gulp and starting across towards her. A few beers, and a woman for the night,
and maybe, just maybe, he wouldn’t wake up in a cold sweat like all those other
nights before, his heart beating out for a past he couldn’t change; reaching
for a woman who was never coming back.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Garrett reached the girl with a smile, and set about
forgetting his pain the only way he knew how. Sure, love was grand for his
friends, for Juliet and Emerson, and Brit and Hunter, but he’d learned his
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<br />Melody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-51169578794484784742014-01-29T10:45:00.002-08:002014-01-29T10:45:42.768-08:00All grown up?Next week I get the keys to rent my first 'grown-up' apartment, after years of roommates and a tiny studio flat. I'm so excited, it feels like a real milestone, and it got me thinking about adulthood, and how it isn't always so easy to figure out. When I was younger, I thought I would know for sure when I was grown up - I would reach some birthday, and everything would be figured out.<br />
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But here I am, nearly 29 now, and I know it's not so simple. I moved an ocean away from home and built a life here in LA, but I still feel like I should get gold stars when I pay a bill or eat my vegetables (instead of just eating dessert for dinner :). Adulthood comes in fits and starts, and sometimes, it's nothing we can predict: it can be taking responsibility for someone else for the first time, a child or parent; owning your mistakes, or simply making the hard choice you know is right for you, no matter what the cost.<br />
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In Unconditional, Carina is 26, older than any of my other heroines. All around her, her friends have settled down, they have homes, and husbands, and are starting their families, and she finds herself back at square one trying to figure out her life from scratch again. Writing her story made me realize again how there's no one path we're supposed to walk: adulthood is messy and confusing, and your life may not look like the people's around you -- or anything resembling the image you had in your mind.<br />
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But that's OK. Everyone has their own journey, and sometimes the most important thing to remember is that it's never too late to start again: to choose what you really want out of life and go for it. Be brave, know yourself, and sometimes, once in a while, eat dessert for dinner :)Melody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-23527425373038535392014-01-26T23:21:00.001-08:002014-01-26T23:21:43.585-08:00EventsI'm so excited to have a few events coming up. I love getting out to meet all you readers, and usually there are amazing authors on the panels too, so I can get all fangirly -- ahem, I mean, appreciative in a totally mature and adult fashion ;)<br />
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Here's what's lined up for the next few months:<br />
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Feb 13th - Huntingdon Beach Library Author Tea (with Amy Friedman and Eduardo Santia<span style="color: #2a3412; font-family: inherit;">go). 2pm.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.huntingtonbeachevents.com/calendar.html">http://www.huntingtonbeachevents.com/calendar.html</a><br />
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April 12th & 13th -- Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Panels and exact times have yet to be announced, but I'll definitely be there for something!<br />
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May 12th -- RT Booklovers Convention, New Orleans. I'll be co-hosting the New Adult Pajama Party with EVERYONE EVER. Seriously, it's going to be an awesome shindig: Cora Carmack, Jennifer Armentrout, Abbi Glines, Jamie McGuire, Nichole Chase, Tammara Webber, Lyla Payne, and so many more!<br />
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Hope to see you there!<br />
xo<br />
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MelodyMelody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-90777357317796080202014-01-17T09:36:00.002-08:002014-01-17T09:36:36.356-08:002014!Hey everyone, and Happy New Year!<br />
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I know, I'm a little late with the celebrating, but I'm so happy and excited for the year ahead. You may have noticed I was quieter than usual over the holiday period, and to tell the truth, I really needed that vacation. 2013 was an incredible year for me, but boy, was I busy! I wrote and released 3 full-length novels (UNBROKEN, UNAFRAID, and WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT), plus 3 novellas too! I loved every minute of it, but by the time December rolled around, I felt like my brain was drowning in molasses. Serious burn-out!<br />
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I took some time off for the holidays, and spent time just relaxing (watching The Good Wife with my mom), and I feel sooooo much better, you wouldn't believe. You may not realize just how stressed us authors get, and it's easy to hide it because I don't want to seem like I'm ungrateful or overwhelmed, but sometimes it's tough. I want to give you these books as fast as possible, but I know, I need to take my time, breathe deep, and focus on being the best writer I can be, regardless of my deadlines.<br />
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Anyway, the rest was just what I needed. I'm back at my keyboard now and feeling pumped for 2014! I have so many fun things planned for you guys, I can't wait. And first up is the next Beachwood Bay novel, UNCONDITIONAL, releasing March 18th. This is Carina and Garrett's story, and I have to tell you, it's one of the most emotionally wrenching stories I've ever written. You first met Carina in Unbroken, and you may think you know her, but there's so much more going on beneath the surface…<br />
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We're doing the cover shoot next weekend (sexy models IN PERSON! I love my job :) and I can't wait to see what we come up with. I'm also going to be planning some big Beachwood Bay Birthday Bash celebrations -- that's right, it'll be one year since Unbroken launched and set this whole crazy ride in motion.<br />
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So, thank you for all your support and understanding, and stay tuned for an amazing year!<br />
xo<br />
MelodyMelody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-64377369534900399572013-12-09T22:39:00.003-08:002013-12-09T22:39:59.088-08:00UNWRAPPED is live!It's so exciting… Unwrapped is now live and available to buy!<br />
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iTunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/unwrapped/id772166745?mt=11">https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/unwrapped/id772166745?mt=11</a><br />
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MelodyMelody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-34397983409920958002013-12-03T19:17:00.000-08:002013-12-03T19:17:06.010-08:0010 days of UNWRAPPED -- Day 8!<br />
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It's day 8 of the UNWRAPPED spectacular, which means it's time to meet (or should i say, re-meet?) our leading lady, Lacey! <a href="http://bookwhores.weebly.com/1/post/2013/12/day-8-of-the-unwrapped-spectacular-interview-with-lacey.html" target="_blank">The fabulous Book Whore Blog has the exclusive interview.</a><br />
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7 days to go!<br />
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xo<br />
MelodyMelody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-74292522020787212842013-12-02T07:46:00.002-08:002013-12-02T07:46:42.710-08:0010 days of Unwrapped - Day 9!It's Day 9 of the UNWRAPPED holiday extravaganza, and today, I've got something special for you: an exclusive sneak peek of chapter one over at Just Booked Blog!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s
December 24th and I’m running late. Way late. So late, I don’t even stop to
retrieve the bag of Skittles that tumbles out of my purse as I bounce through
the Departures terminal at LAX, trying to hang on to my coat and magazines and
my stupid wheel-on overnight luggage that’s picked today of all days to bust a
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Sorry, buddies,” I huff under my
breathe, looking back to see the bag of candy trampled under the feet of five
hundred other last-minute holiday travelers. “Can’t stop! It’s every sucker for
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I slow to a jog as I reach the
board.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Italic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Atlanta... Atlanta...</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">
I let out a groan as I see the gate flash up. Forty-two. As in, forty-two ways
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My phone buzzes as I take off down
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best friend, Juliet, wail, “Where </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Italic"; line-height: 200%;">are</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: 200%;"> you? </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="line-height: 200%;">You said you’d be here already, and the yard is a mess, and Brit
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Melody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-35918583843075082842013-12-01T10:41:00.001-08:002013-12-01T10:43:02.566-08:0010 DAYS OF UNWRAPPED!It's 10 days until UNWRAPPED arrives under your tree, so just like the days of Christmas, you're getting 10 days of fun Unwrapped features and sneak peeks to build up to the big day!<br />
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Starting with day 10: FANTASY CASTING!<br />
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Lacey is fun-loving and spontaneous, always up for a good time. She was always the crazy one dragging Juliet out of her shell, but once we get to know Lacey better in Unwrapped, we get to see below the surface. It turns out she's having a hard time adjusting to life after college, trying to make her way without her bFF, and there's more to her than meets the eye.<br />
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When we met Daniel in Unbroken, he was Juliet's steady, sensible boyfriend. Well, we all know what happened when she returned to Beachwood Bay and reunited with her first love, Emerson -- poor Daniel didn't stand a chance! Now Daniel is a little bit older and wiser, he's had his heart broken, and he thinks he knows what he wants in his next girl: someone loyal and sweet who would never hurt him like that. Firecracker Lacey is the polar opposite of his dream woman, but for some reason, he can't get her out of his head...</div>
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Armie is such a cutie, he totally rocks the preppy clean-cut boyfriend look, but I think there's some passion lurking under there too, which is definitely required once they get snowed in and things heat up with Lacey! Yum!<br />
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What do you think? Who else could you see in the roles? And are you looking forward to getting back to Beachwood Bay? I know I am!<br />
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Add now on goodreads! <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18310694-unwrapped">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18310694-unwrapped</a><br />
xo<br />
MelodyMelody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-82523634655771553372013-11-26T00:26:00.000-08:002013-11-26T00:26:25.622-08:00UNWRAPPED is coming soon!The holidays are nearly upon us, and you know what that means? The sexy Beachwood Bay Christmas novella!<br />
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Yes, UNWRAPPED is coming December 10th, and let me tell you, this one is a scorcher :) It was so much fun to write this one: not only do you get the story of Lacey and Daniel and their snowbound night together, but you'll get to see Juliet and Emerson's beautiful wedding too!<br />
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<br />Melody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-37592522783309243052013-11-13T19:06:00.000-08:002013-11-13T19:06:12.515-08:00WEH 2.0!Hey guys,<br />
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So, you might have noticed that WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT has a delicious, drool-worthy new look. I've been blown away by all the great reactions and amazing reviews this book has been getting; it's more than I ever dreamed. One thing that kept coming up in readers' comments and emails was that the cover didn't reflect the passion and intensity of Raphael and Annalise's relationship. This is a sexy, powerful book, and we realized that the original cover (while gorgeous) didn't convey the wild ride you were in for.<br />
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So, I went looking for something new, and let me tell you, when I saw this photo, I knew I couldn't resist! I'm so excited to share this new cover with you, it's super-hot and ab-tastic, everything that a sexy Italian guy like Raphael deserves ;)<br />
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<b>Passion. Ambition. Desire. Which would you choose?</b></div>
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<br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">I thought I knew what I wanted in life. I thought my destiny was set. Then I met him, and everything changed.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">Raphael is bold, passionate, and seductive. He sees something in me I never dreamed possible, and now he's determined to show me a world beyond rules -- a dance without limits. I want to trust him, but I'm scared. Because I know once I fall, there'll be no going back.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">An innocent dancer. A mysterious stranger. As Annalise is drawn deeper into the sensual delights of Rome, she'll question everything she believed about her future. But with opening night looming, can she find the strength to risk it all? And will she be forced to choose between her one true love, ballet, and the new passion in her heart?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">Find out in this intoxicating new series from the USA Today & international bestselling author of UNBROKEN, Melody Grace.</span></div>
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<i>**This book contains explicit material and adult scenes. 17+**</i></div>
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I'm having a big blow-out party today (Thursday) celebrate the relaunch, and I hope you'll join me! I'll be posting sexy teaser pics throughout the day so tweet, share, post, and spread the love around. I'm also running a fab contest to win naming rights over a character in the next Cities of Love book; that's right, you can have your name immortalized as an awesome character in print!<br />
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I hope you love the new cover. Check out your copy today!<br />
xo<br />
MelodyMelody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-81734463593987405942013-11-07T22:46:00.002-08:002013-11-08T08:47:32.629-08:00WEH live -- and a special announcement! It's here! You guys, it's here!!!<br />
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WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT is now LIVE on sale! I'm so excited, I can't even tell you. This was a real book of my heart, and I'm so thrilled you can all share in Annalise and Raphael's story. I hope you love reading it as much as I've loved writing it.<br />
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I'm just overwhelmed by all your support and amazing reviews. The book went on sale a few hours ago, and already it's an iTunes bestseller around the world!<br />
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So, to thank you for everything, I'm extending the special pre-order sale through the weekend. That's right, you'll be able to buy WEH for an amazing price of just 99c until Monday, when it'll go back to its regular price of $3.99. Either way, it's a bargain, so click now to secure your copy!<br />
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Thanks again, and a million hugs to all the readers, bloggers, and fans who've made this book possible! I love you all.<br />
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MelodyMelody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-47413439313438119982013-11-05T13:05:00.002-08:002013-11-05T13:06:29.472-08:00WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT book trailer!You guys! It's just 3 days until publication, and I'm so excited to share the official book trailer, made by the amazing Becca the Bibliophile!<br />
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Isn't it amazing? She totally captured the mood of the book, I can't stop watching!<br />
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xoMelody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-15387684187813452172013-11-01T21:57:00.001-07:002013-11-01T21:57:56.492-07:00Sexy Saturday...OK, I think it's time… for a super-steamy scene!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I dance for him, because I want him.
Because the thought of his hands on my body makes my heart skip and my blood
run hot in my veins. Because ever since the first night we met, I’ve fallen
asleep with the memory of his kisses burning in my mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He’s cast a spell on me, and now,
it’s my turn to make him feel what I’ve been feeling; make him want me even
half as much as I long for him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I dance with purpose, with
glittering passion, throwing myself into every movement. I don’t feel a single
moment of pain in my ankle until the last strains of music fade away, and I’m
left, breathless, face-down on the floor, my heart racing with shock and
exhilaration over what I’ve just done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I catch my breath. The music moves
seamlessly to the next track; it must have been set to ‘shuffle,’ because the
sounds that emerge from the speakers now are sultry and slow, a jazz track,
with a seductive female vocal. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The dance leaves my body, and now
I’m overcome with self-consciousness, but I force myself to sit up and look
over at him. Raphael is still watching me, leaning forward, elbows on his
knees, his face unreadable, his eyes locked on mine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The intensity in his eyes make my
heart stop. There’s a naked hunger there, consuming, and I feel it ripple
through me, an answering ache rising in my very core.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A beat passes between us, a single
heartbeat, and then he’s on his feet, slowly crossing the space between us. My
breath stills in my throat at the sight of him, heading determinedly towards
me. He has the grace of a panther, powerful and lithe as he comes to a stop in
front of me, reaching down to take my hand. He lifts me to my feet: my pulse is
skittering, my stomach tied in knots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My dance was an invitation, a
reckless promise of something I didn’t know I wanted. And now ...? Now comes
his reply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I gulp, unsteady on my feet, waiting
for him to act: to take my face in his hands, crash his lips down on mine, drag
me towards that huge bed in the corner ...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Instead, Raphael slides his hands
gently around my waist, places my hand against his shoulder, and begins to
dance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It’s soft and slow, a lilting
melody, and I shiver, sinking against his body, matching his movements with my
own, resting my head against his chest to sway with him in time. We’ve danced
together before, we were pressed together in this very same pose not hours ago
at the restaurant, but this is different. Now there’s a charge between us,
crackling like the dry electricity of a summer storm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Raphael’s body sways, his fingertips
roaming softly across my back, the barest of a caress, but I feel the touch
blaze on my bare shoulders. I shudder, my nipples tightening against his chest,
every cell in my body alive and aching for more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I don’t understand it, how I could
have gone my whole life without feeling even a hint of this desire. Now it
threatens to consume me. The scent of him, his deep musky smell; the taut curve
of his bicep, wrapped tight around me; the feel of his breath, light against my
cheek. Every sense is awake, every part of my body is calling out for him, but
I’m helpless, too scared to move from his embrace, too shy to reach up and
bring his lips to mine. I can only wait, my heart pounding, until at last,
Raphael strokes his hand across my shoulder and lifts my face to his.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Watching you dance ...” he murmurs,
his voice thick with desire. Raphael’s gaze is searching, tormented. “I’ve
never wanted anyone so much. God, Annalise ... You’re incredible.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I tremble. His lips are so close
now, everything I want only inches away. I can’t help myself. As if my body is
possessed by some foreign force, I find myself reaching for him, pulling his
head down towards me until at last, his lips claim mine in a heart-stopping,
breathtakingly gentle kiss. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I melt. The last of my doubts and
insecurities dissolve under the softness of his caress; barely a whisper of
pressure as his lips brush mine, but oh, I feel it everywhere. I kiss him
again, stronger this time, tasting his lips, daringly parting them with my
tongue so I can explore the dark, delicious warmth of his mouth; running my
fingers through his hair, pressing eagerly against him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Raphael lets out a groan, and then
he sweeps me closer, tight against his body. The kiss deepens, his mouth making
a sensual assault on mine until I’m gasping and helpless in his arms. The music
is still playing, soft and slow, but it’s all I can do to sway, caught up in
the rush of sensation from his hands on my body, and the deep craving slowly
uncoiling in my veins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Raphael lifts his head, eyes dark
with desire. He takes my hand, slowly spinning me out away from him, then pulls
me in, turning me so that I’m facing away from him, the front of his body
pressed up against my back. I catch my breath, feeling the heat of his body
mould to mine as his hands slide across my torso, his fingertips lightly
caressing down along my collarbone, sending shivers of pure quicksilver
wherever they touch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The sensation is almost too much to
take: the hard muscle of his body behind me, and the gentle path of his touch,
relentlessly soft, teasing, as he strokes along my arms, over my stomach, up
the centre of my ribcage. My head lolls back against his shoulder and I close
my eyes, falling deeper into the velvet darkness where nothing exists but the
seductive chords of music, the drifting summer night air, and Raphael’s hands—</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Italic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">oh,
his hands</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">—driving me crazy,
setting every nerve in my body alive, screaming for more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As if he can hear my silent pleas,
Raphael’s fingertips sweep lightly across my breasts. I gasp, my knees buckling
at the intimate touch, but he holds me up, not hesitating for a moment,
caressing me through my thin silk camisole in the lightest whisper of touch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Italic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Italic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It feels like nothing else in the world,
the shivers of pleasure and deep, hungry desire that spiral through, pooling
low and liquid between my thighs. My heart races, my nipples harden, aching for
him, but he takes his time, slowly teasing me. The whisper of touch becomes a
velvet caress, stronger, fuller, palming the weight of me in his hands until
I’m mindless, writhing with desperate whimpers. I hear myself beg for him
wordlessly, but it’s like I’m listening to somebody else, untethered from my
own mind, from anything that isn’t his touch, so torturous, circling, teasing
me, taking me to the edge of heaven, but no further.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“God, Annalise,” Raphael groans
against my neck, landing a trail of blazing kisses along the tender skin. I
press against him, needy and wanting, and then at last he drags his thumbs
across my nipples in a harsh, delicious sweep.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I moan, arching up against his
hands. Raphael is unleashed. Suddenly, his hands are everywhere, squeezing,
stroking me, rolling my nipples between his fingers until the sharp pleasure
makes me cry out for more. As if the sound is his undoing, he sweeps me up in
his arms, covering the distance to the bed in a few long strides. He places me
down on the covers, gentler than I could have dreamed, then pauses a moment,
looking down at me with a blazing dark stare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I shudder under his hungry gaze, my
mind blank and dizzy, my whole body surrendered to sensation. But still, a part
of me clenches in fear, not ready to plunge off the edge completely. “Raphael,”
I manage, my voice a hoarse whisper. “I—”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Shh ...” He presses his fingertip
to my lips, his eyes meeting mine with silent understanding. “I know.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="BodyA" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I exhale with relief, relaxing, but
Raphael doesn’t take his eyes from mine. He eases my lips open, sliding his
finger into my mouth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman Italic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Holy crap!</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I shudder at the intimacy, at the
feel of him against my tongue—and the look in his eyes, possessive and raw. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’m going to teach you what
pleasure feels like.” Raphael tells me, his voice rasping as he leans to drop a
kiss against my earlobe. Every word sends a shudder through me, his mouth
grazing my skin. “What it means to want someone, to beg for their touch.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“You’re going to come for me, and I
won’t stop until you’re mine.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Phew! *fans self*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remember, pre-order is just 99c!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Amazon: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FY8MAW4" style="background-color: white; color: #2a344f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FY8MAW4</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">iTunes: </span><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/with-every-heartbeat/id731286174?mt=11" style="background-color: white; color: #2a344f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/with-every-heartbeat/id731286174?mt=11</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Smashwords: </span><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/368083" style="background-color: white; color: #2a344f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none; widows: 2;">https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/368083</a></div>
Melody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-34874467138079903782013-10-31T11:30:00.002-07:002013-10-31T11:30:34.992-07:00ITunes contest...1 week to go!<br />
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With Every Heartbeat is shooting up the charts around the world on iTunes, so I thought it would be fun to have a little 'thank you' contest for all your early support. When the pre-order hits the top 100 in the US, I'll run a giveaway to win a $25 iTunes gift card! The book is still just 99c, so that sounds like a bargain to me :)<br />
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Here's the pre-order link: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/with-every-heartbeat/id731286174?mt=11">https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/with-every-heartbeat/id731286174?mt=11</a><br />
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Good luck! Let's get it to the top of the charts!<br />
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xo MelodyMelody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-27801407094988342272013-10-30T11:55:00.001-07:002013-10-30T11:55:20.329-07:00WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT excerpt! Eeeek! Just 10 days to go until publication, I can't wait!<br />
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Today you get a special treat: I'm previewing the prologue excerpt exclusively at I Love Indie Books.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 26px; text-align: center;">There are some things in life we know to be true, beyond logic or reason, science or faith. Irresistible truths, they’re called, the things we seem to instinctively grasp, as if the knowledge were imprinted deep in our DNA, written on the very fiber of our souls...</span></blockquote>
<a href="http://www.iloveindiebooks.com/2013/10/melody-grace-exclusive-prologue-from.html" target="_blank">Want more? Click to read! </a><br />
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xo<br />
MelodyMelody Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10938030874046944394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522288523142939962.post-73791974594050712132013-10-23T17:27:00.002-07:002013-10-23T17:27:34.490-07:00WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT pre-sale 99c!Hey everyone,<br />
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I can't believe it's only 2 weeks until WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT launches!<br />
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I have to admit, I'm a little nervous and a lot excited to be taking a detour from Beachwood Bay and bringing you something new. It was so much fun to build a new world and explore a different cast of characters, but just like leaving home for the first time, I'm scared how you all will find this new direction!<br />
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Even though it takes place in a whole new place (a new country!) WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT has everything you've come to expect from my books, everything I love sharing with you: it's about friendship, new love, passion, and discovering who you really are, and what you want in life... even if it's the last thing you expected. All against the amazing, romantic backdrop of Rome!<br />
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And if you're a fan of Emerson and Hunter, just wait until you meet Raphael ;)<br />
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To celebrate the release, and thank you for all your support over the past 6 months, I wanted to do something special. So, I'm making WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT available for pre-order at the amazingly low price of 99c.<br />
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99c!!<br />
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That's right, in the 2 weeks until publication, and for launch weekend, you'll be able to buy this book for a bargain price. After that, the price will rise again to $3.99, so be sure to snap it up now while you can!<br />
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WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT is available for pre-order now via:<br />
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Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FY8MAW4">http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FY8MAW4</a><br />
iTunes: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/with-every-heartbeat/id731286174?mt=11">https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/with-every-heartbeat/id731286174?mt=11</a><br />
Smashwords: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/368083">https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/368083</a><br />
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What are you waiting for? Go grab your copy, and stay tuned for some amazing sneak peeks and competitions.<br />
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xo<br />
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