Finding Laila: Some Changes are Necessary (35 page)
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Authors: T.K. Rapp
About
the Author
T.K. Rapp is a Texas girl born and raised. She earned a B.A.
in Journalism from Texas A&M and it was there that she met the love of her
life. He had a contract with the U.S. Navy that would take them across both
coasts, and ultimately land them back home in Texas.
Upon finally settling in Texas, T.K. worked as a graphic
designer and photographer for the family business that her mom started years
earlier. She was able to infuse her creativity and passion, into something she
enjoyed, but something was still missing. There was a voice in the back of her
head that told her to write, so write, she did. And, somewhere on an external
hard drive, are several stories she started and never finished.
Now at home, raising her two daughters, T.K. has more time
to do the things she loves, which includes photography and writing. When she’s
not doing one of those, she can be found with her family, which keeps her busy.
She enjoys watching her kids in their various sporting activities (i.e. doing
the soccer mom thing), having Sunday breakfast at her parent’s house, singing
out loud and out of key or dancing like a fool. She loves raunchy humor, gossip
blogs and a good book.
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Reclaiming the Sand
by A. Meredith Walters
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Find You in
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Reclaiming the
Sand
By A. Meredith
Walters
Bully and
victim.
Tormenter and tormented.
Villain and hero.
Ellie McCallum was
a bully. No connection to anyone or anything.
A sad and
lonely existence for a young woman who had come to expect nothing more for
herself.
Her only happiness coming from making others
miserable.
Particularly Freaky Flynn.
Flynn
Hendrick
lived a life completely disconnected even as he
struggled to become something more than that boy with Asperger's. He was
taunted and teased, bearing the brunt of systematic and calculated cruelty,
ultimately culminating in a catastrophic turn of events that brought Ellie and
Flynn’s worlds crashing down.
But then Flynn
and Ellie grew up.
And moved
on.
Until years later when their paths unexpectedly cross again and
the bully and the freak are face to face once more.
When labels come
to define you, finding yourself feels impossible.
Particularly
for two people disconnected from the world who inexplicably find a connection
in each other.
And out of the
wreckage of their tragic beginnings, an unlikely love story unfolds.
But a painful
past doesn’t always want to let go. And old wounds are never truly healed…and
sometimes the further you try to run from yourself the closer you come to who
you really are.
Prologue
-Ellie-
I am an ugly person.
I do ugly things.
I think ugly thoughts.
You will hate me.
You will detest the choices that I
have made.
You won’t understand me at all.
You may feel some sympathy. A
shred of sadness for the woman I’ve become. It’s hard not to feel bad for
the person who has fallen so far.
But you
will
love him.
It’s hard not to.
He is everything that I’m
not.
He is good. He is kind.
He cares for others deeply and absolutely.
He is talented. He is shy. He
is smart in ways I can only dream of.
He loves with all of his heart.
He believes when I refute. He
succeeds when I fail. He blooms when I shrivel up and die.
Why does a man like this want a
woman like me?
It’s blasphemous.
Improbable.
Completely wrong.
But he does.
He sees the beauty where others
don’t. He hears love when others only hear pain. He gives me the
strength to become the person I’ve been terrified to be.
You will hate me.
You will love him.
I
love him.
He has changed my world.