Pitch Imperfect (28 page)
Authors: Elise Alden
Author’s Note
The author’s royalties from
Pitch Imperfect
are being donated to ARC-UK. To find out more about this charity visit
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Love Elise Alden’s romances? You won’t want to miss her first.
Hate to Love You
Despite my slutty reputation, I was
technically
a virgin at eighteen. But it turns out all those sex-ed teachers aren’t just trying to scare you. The faint positive on a budget pregnancy test sent me spinning, moments before meeting my sister’s snooty new fiancé.
Shaking hands with upper-crusty James was like downing a triple shot of vodka. Dizzy with desire, confused by my body’s reaction, and shocked by the possessiveness flashing in his eyes, I deceived him that night and told the world at their wedding reception.
The truth?
I slept with my sister’s fiancé. Hot and sweaty, all night long in a room so dark he couldn’t tell I wasn’t her.
The lie?
Said fiancé is the father of my child. The one I signed over my rights to just before he was born.
That was seven years ago.
It’s time to come clean.
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About the Author
At age twelve Elise borrowed
Gone with the Wind
from her school library and thought she’d be traumatized for life—until she wrote and pasted in a happy ending where Rhett declares his love and sweeps Scarlet into his arms. The librarian was none too pleased, but since the damaged book saved Elise’s parents years of therapy fees they were happy to pay for a new school copy. Since then Elise has cried, sighed and reveled in Romance novels. She’s drawn to flawed characters with atypical backgrounds, people for whom love isn’t a simple matter of boy meets girl, but a gut-wrenching journey of transformation.
Elise grew up in tropical Panama and spent several years teaching in Brazil, where she met a traveling Scotsman who did what Rhett Butler should have. Well, he dragged her to his mountain lair, but it’s the thought that counts! These days, whether she’s star gazing atop ruined castles or seeking rare butterflies in the jungles of Central America, Elise is thinking up characters who overcome the odds to be together. After all, if she and her husband could, then her heroes and heroines deserve the chance too.
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ISBN-13: 9781426899140
Pitch Imperfect
Copyright © 2014 by Lizbeth Crawford
Edited by Kerri Buckley
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