Finding Laila: Some Changes are Necessary
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And to the wonderful people read this story and helped make the to the finish line: Daiana, Gina, Kristy and the members of my street team - thank you for all of your support and the things to you do help me out. It is so much appreciated.
To my mom and dad, thank you for believing in me and what I love to do. I swear; I’m a damn lucky girl to have you both. And to my wonderful husband, thank you for supporting me, encouraging me and loving me and all my crazy. You are my best friend and most important member of my barmy, and I know God had a plan when he brought you into my life. I love you so very much.
Finally, to the readers who have supported me and read my stories: you will never know how much your kind words, and enthusiasm have meant to me. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
Writing Laila’s story was truly a joy - every second of it.
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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If you enjoyed this book, check out the others by T.K. Rapp:
Being There
Mine to Lose
Mine to Steal
Turn the page for an excerpt from
Reclaiming the Sand by A. Meredith Walters
From the New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of Find You in the Dark and Bad Rep comes Reclaiming the Sand, the bestselling story of love and forgiveness and the importance of letting go of a painful past. The sequel, Chasing the Tide, is available NOW!
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.
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