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This week's excerpt is from my contemporary dancer romance - now in audio book – Circles Interlocked.
Scene Set - Julie has spent a quiet week with her friend at his cottage. Her best friend (his sister) drops by.
Excerpt
"Your chauffeur's here." Vincent's sister, Cheryl, bounded onto the deck. "I've come to rescue you from the wilds of nature and return you to smog filled civilization." Cheryl's eyes scanned her friend. "Don't take this personally, I hate you."
Julie gasped.
"Look at you." Cheryl flipped the car keys in her hand. "You're gorgeous. That ponytail ends in a perfect little flip. Your eyelashes go on forever, and your legs stop at your neck. I have paintbrushes fatter than you. And you've got a gorgeous tan." She stepped closer. "So, did you and Vincent... you know?"
Julie shook her head. "We haven't been dating that long. This was just a vacation. I think he needed an excuse to get out of the office."
"Luggage is in the car." Vincent held the door for them. As he settled into the back of the long, white, company limousine Julie sat next to Cheryl.
"Why are you here?" asked Julie. "I thought the chauffeur would be sent when Bart left."
"You don't like Bart?"
Julie turned to check on Vincent. He was involved in a cell phone conversation. "No," she whispered. "He's creepy."
"Well, knowing my brother's lack of a driver's license and your sore knee, I thought we could spend the time chatting."
"Vincent doesn't have a license?"
Cheryl shook her head.
Julie continued, "I never thought about that. His not driving us was because he's rich enough to have a chauffeur. Why drive?"
"I think he's scared of driving, just and prefers to hide in the back seat."
The roar of a motorcycle caught everyone's attention as it sped past to take the lead. "There's a guy I'd like to get to know." Cheryl nodded in the direction of the motorcycle. "He's dating Corina Kroft, the stunning blonde who owns the blue Cape Cod cottage up the beach. Heiress to a small fortune. Estimated to be in the several billions. Vincent says she's lethal in business. The dumb blonde theory didn't rub off on her. There have been marriage rumours about motorcycle-man and her."
"Would you like to know his name?"
Blurb and buy Links
How do people get into the situations they find themselves in?
Having been betrayed by the man she assumed she was destined to be with forever; Julie Anderson is heartbroken that her love affair didn't end with the fairy tale Happily Ever After. She leaves town to pursue her dream of being a dancer only to find herself trapped in a job she no longer loves, confined in a relationship with a loveless man, and living day by day regretting what she has become.
Bouncing from failed relationship to failed relationship, Robert Holiday consoles himself with the lie that he sacrificed his happiness so Julie could live her dream.
As fate has a curious sense of humour, eight years later, they wake up in bed together. Now it is up to love to fix what time cannot mend.
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