Entangled
Summer by Michele
Barrow-Belisle is one of the titles in the box set
Fling
coming out June 30, 2015
for a limited time.
Blurb: They say our dreams mask hidden secrets. Secret desires.
Secret fears. Secret lives. 20 year old Nora Dultry’s dreams hide even more.
They’re a gateway to the man of her dreams and an escape from her painful past.
She’s fantasized about him for years, and when he magically walks into her
summer teaching gig, she never dreamed she’d question whether he was the one
she truly wanted. But her former fling Troy Belassaro doesn’t just own
Wanderlust Academy... he’s her boss, he still has her heart strings tied in
knots, and he’s hiding secrets of his own. One of them will be her dream come
true, one her waking nightmare. Untangling the truth could make this summer job,
her last.
Short
Excerpt:
The red velvet
curtains parted and the lights dimmed. It was only a preview, a way to give the
students an idea of how all of the elements came together to make a whole
production. The music, lighting, voice acting and of course the marionettes…
the part he’d given me, and the one thing of the three I knew the least about.
“You’ve got this
Nora.” Troy reassured me. “Just keep moving your hands, and don’t let your strings
get caught.”
So that’s what I
did. Or what I tried to do. I held my
puppet next to his. He danced his in a two-step, to the delight of our young
audience. I wiggled the sticks like I’d been shown. Immediately my puppet
tripped over both of its feet and hurled uncontrollably into Troy’s. It was as
if I was dancing on stage next to him myself. Equally awkward, and totally
embarrassing. The snickers and giggles grew into an uproar of laughter.
Troy groaned.
“Thought you said you knew how to do this.” He moved behind me, the full length
of his body sliding against me as he did. A tingle rippled down my spine.
I looked up over
my shoulder at him. “No, you said, I
knew how. I said I was all thumbs.”
He glanced down,
his face a mere inch from mine. “How is your thumb?”
“Fine.”
“And…” he
scanned me from head to toe, “the rest of you.”
“Also fine.” I
blushed, remembering the way he’d pulled my bruised thumb to his lips, before
he pulled my lips to his lips, and then…
He tugged. I
tugged. Until all that remained was a tangled mess of strings and bodies. Wooden
bodies.
“Perfect.” He
deadpanned. “You didn’t want strings, well, we’re entangled now aren’t we.”
I couldn’t tell
if he was serious or not. Either way, he was right. We were entangled. And
there were most definitely strings attached.
*****
Now available for pre-order at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00Y5X8H9Y
Connect with Michele
Twitter: www.twitter.com/MicheleBelisle
Thanks for stopping by so excited to be doing this box set with you,
Tina
Thanks for stopping by so excited to be doing this box set with you,
Tina
1 comment:
Thanks so much Tina, I'm so excited to be involved in this boxset with amazing authors such as yourself!! :)
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