“Why is this one so special?” I ask, a little confused.
“Open it up.”
I do. I pull the front cover to the left and stare down. It looks like there’s a little carved circle in the middle of all the pages. “What the?”
“Look inside.” I can’t believe my eyes. I put the book on its side, and out from that hole falls the shiniest, most beautiful ring I’ve ever seen in my life. The shine of it hits me in the eye. Or maybe those are just the tears forming that I seem to have no control over. I look back up at him, and he’s smiling ear to ear.
“Cormac? What?”
He steps around the side of my signing table and as he does I see that Shosh has her phone out and is pointing it in our direction. “Smile, Tori, you’re live on your social media.”
“What? You knew?”
“I know everything, girl. Now stop looking at me and look over at that gorgeous man in front of you.”
I turn and Cormac is down on one knee. I can’t control the tears that are streaming down my face. A year ago I hated this man—I thought he was representative of everything wrong with men. Now he’s down on one knee, looking up into my tear soaked eyes.
“Tori Klein, we started out as an experiment and we became something very real. I love you with all of my heart and soul. Would you make me the luckiest man in the world by becoming my wife?”
The whole room is silent. I forget where we are for a moment, and then I look up. Everyone’s phone is on me, and the smiles in the room are too many to count. I have the biggest one of all.
“Of course I will. I love you so much.”
I pull him up off of his knees, and we kiss the best kiss I’ve ever had.
“You know we’ll have this moment forever now.”
“I don’t need the cameras for that, Cormac. I’ll always have this moment forever.”
The End
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Away From Here: a young adult novel
Synopsis:
When I was seventeen years old there were only three things that I knew for certain: I was a mixed-up mixed kid, with weird hair and an unhealthy love of comics; I wanted to forget I’d ever heard the words depression and anxiety; and I was hopelessly in love with a girl named Annalise who was, in every way that you can be, a goddess. What can I say about Anna? She wasn’t the prom queen or the perfect girl from the movies, she was my weird, funny, messed up goddess. The girl of my dreams. The reason I’m writing these words.
I’d loved Anna from a distance my junior year, afraid to actually talk to her, but then one day during lunch my best friend threw a french fry at my face and changed everything. The rest, as they say, is history. Our History. Our Story. Annalise helped make me the man I am today, and loving her saved my teenaged soul from drowning in the depths of a terrible Bleh, the worst kind of sadness that there is, a concept Anna taught me about a long time ago, when we were younger than young. So flip the book over, open up the cover and let me tell you Our Story, which is like Annalise, herself - complicated, beautiful, funny, and guaranteed to teach you something by the time you’re through. Maybe it’ll teach you the complexity of the word potato, something I never understood until the very last page.
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The Impressions Duet (HEA Contemporary Romance)
This duet follows the interrelated stories of two best friends, Mia and Dacia, as they encounter the Marsden brothers—two mysterious, handsome, and intriguing men whose family has a sordid history that they must discover together:
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The New York City’s Finest
HEA contemporary romance—My 5 book series, a blend of contemporary romance, action, suspense, and adventure—each book features a different sexy NYPD detective and takes place in a different borough of New York. Follow these NYPD detectives as they meet the women of their dreams while trying to solve the crimes of their careers!
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The Wordsmith Chronicles
HEA contemporary romance—A group of aspiring romance writers struggle with trying to make it big in the indie publishing world while navigating their love lives.
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The Me That I Became
Synopsis:
We were destined to never end up together. You an empath, and me the woman who can’t feel anything. It never should have worked. Then, our hands brushed together. It was serendipity—a happy accident that made me experience the world like I never had before. You said all the right words, and for a time I remembered what it felt like to be alive. But, my shadows have returned, threatening to extinguish the light you brought into my life, and I’m terrified that our future together is slipping away. I need you now, Brandon. I need you to chase away the demons, to make me whole, and to teach me once again what it means to love. Now only one question remains. . .Will you?
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The Sick Parents Club: A Novel
Synopsis
“The bullet let loose on July 22nd, 1939, destroyed a house full of children who went to sleep normal, but awoke forever deformed. The bullet ricocheted, lodging itself so deep inside each of them that none realized they’d been hit until years later. There were no survivors that day, even though there were many.”
So begins the latest work from bestselling novelist Nathan Dunbar, as he chronicles the dark secret that forever altered the trajectory of his family. As he struggles to complete that book, he realizes that another story begs to be written—the story of his own teenaged years, a time he spent asking questions about the origin of his parent’s mental illnesses, and forging a bond with the best friends he’s ever know.
As he writes memories flood back—of summer days spent playing basketball, of surviving his household with his twin sister, Clover, and the way he felt when Serafina moved in to the neighborhood. That summer he experienced something he only told her, something he’s never allowed himself to express until now, and when he does it will force a confrontation between the future he wants and the past he struggles to reconcile with.
Welcome to the Sick Parents Club.
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