The Road to You (50 page)
Authors: Marilyn Brant
Marilyn Brant has been told she writes with honesty, liveliness and wit (descriptors she’s grown terribly fond of) about complex, intelligent women—like her friends—and their significant personal relationships. Although her favorite pursuits undoubtedly involve books, she proves she’s not just a literary snob by confessing her lifelong fascination (read: obsession) with popular music, especially from the ‘70s and ‘80s, most flavors of ice cream and a variety of sensuous body lotions/oils.
As a former teacher, library staff member, freelance magazine writer and national book reviewer, Marilyn has spent much of her life lost in literature. She is the
USA Today
bestselling and award-winning author of eight novels to date and, recently, the Illinois Association of Teachers of English (IATE) selected her as their 2013 Illinois Author of the Year.
Her debut coming-of-age/new adult novel,
ACCORDING
TO JANE
(Kensington, 2009), featuring the ghost of Jane Austen giving a young woman dating advice, won the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious Golden Heart Award and the Booksellers’ Best, and it was named one of the “Top 100 Romance Novels of All Time” by Buzzle.com. Her second novel,
FRIDAY MORNINGS AT NINE
(Kensington, 2010), was a Doubleday and Book-of-the-Month Club pick in women’s fiction. And
A SUMMER IN EUROPE
(Kensington, 2011) was featured in the Literary Guild and BOMC2, and it became a Top 20 Bestseller in Fiction and Literature for the Rhapsody Book Club. The Polish translation of the novel was released in June 2013.
She’s also a #1 Kindle and #1 Nook bestseller, who writes fun and flirty romantic comedies, like her stories in
THE SWEET TEMPTATIONS COLLECTION
, that involve sweet treats and large doses of humor.
THE ROAD TO YOU
—a coming-of-age/new adult romantic mystery—is her latest release. Be sure to look for more romantic fiction, coming soon!
Marilyn currently lives in the Chicago suburbs with her family. When she isn’t reading her friends’ books or watching old movies, she’s working on her next novel, eating chocolate indiscriminately and hiding from the laundry.
Wish I May by Lexi Ryan
I’m so excited to share with you a little about Lexi Ryan’s sexy new adult romance,
Wish I May
, as well as an excerpt from the story. It’s coming out soon, and I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did!
About the Book
I grew up wishing on stars.
My father taught me to believe…in destiny, in magic, in happily ever after. Dreams were my scripture and the starry night sky was my temple. Then Mom stopped believing, left him, and took us with her. At the age of sixteen, I cashed in my dreams to pay the rent, pawned my destiny to keep my sisters together.
Now, seven years later, I’m returning home, grieving the death of my mother, and settling my sisters back into the life Mom threw away. I never intended to stay. I don’t want to deal with my father, who is so invested in the spiritual world he forgets the physical. I don’t want to face William Bailey, whose eyes remind me of the girl I was, the things I’ve done, and the future I lost.
This would all be easier if Will hated me. As it is, I have to hold my secrets close so they won’t hurt him more than they’ve already hurt me. But he wants to be in my life. He wants what I can’t bring myself to confess I sold. He wants me.
I find myself looking to my stars again...wondering if I dare one more wish.
Excerpt from
Wish I May
© Lexi Ryan
“Seriously? You’re lost?” He pauses a beat. “In New Hope?” His tone suggests that I’ve gotten myself lost in a paper bag. And, okay, New Hope
is
pretty damn small, but I haven’t lived here in seven years, and it’s changed a lot. The good areas are all rundown now and the factories are closed, and the vast expanses of open land by the river have been developed into fancy neighborhoods with yuppy McMansions so ostentatious I can practically smell their oversized mortgages.
“My GPS keeps trying to get me to drive into the river.”
At least that wipes the scowl off his face. “Yeah, GPS systems haven’t kept up with the developments around here real well.” He rubs the back of his neck and the movement sends the muscles in his arm and shoulder flexing. Between his sweaty muscles and my memories, I’m pretty sure my panties have disintegrated, and I’m pretty sure he knows it.
I clear my throat and resort to asphalt-gazing again. How hard is it to put on a shirt? “If you can point me in the right direction, I’ll get out of your hair. I’m sure I’m the last person you wanted to see today.”
His grunt has me looking up at him again. Those blue eyes, those crazy blond curls. That mouth. “Cally…”
I sink my teeth into my bottom lip as our gazes tangle. He takes a step toward me, and he’s so close, I have to lift my chin to keep my eyes on his, have to curl my fingers into my fists to keep from touching him—sweaty and solid and so damn gorgeous.
I wait—for him to tell me how horrible I am for what I did to him, for him to ask me why I did what I did. I don’t know what I’d say. In the shadow of my mother’s death, it’s hard to imagine that, once, leaving New Hope—leaving Will—seemed like the worst thing that could happen to me. I was so wrong.
But he doesn’t ask and he doesn’t move away from me. His gaze dips to my lips for the briefest moment, and the way my body responds to his nearness, even all these years later, even after…everything…it only confirms what I suspected.
After seven years. After the lamest breakup in the history of breakups. After breaking his heart and dismissing my own, I’m still very much
his
.
Coming in October 2013!
Contact Information
Connect with Marilyn Online:
Email: MarilynBrant AT Gmail DOT Com
I always love to hear from readers!!
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The Road to You
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Wish I May
Excerpt © 2013 by
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