Synopsis
Dani refuses to lose
another parent due to her absence from their life. After pulling herself back
together following the death of her father, she moves back to her childhood
town to live with her mom. She’s slowly pulled back into the lifestyle she
worked so hard to get away from ten years ago. She accepts that this is the
life she has always been destined to live. Getting a job at the store down the
road and hooking back up with her first love Gage, seems to be the logical way
to go…that is until Holden Reynolds shows up in town.
Now that Holden is
finally back home from the Navy he plans on following in his father’s
footsteps. Still trying to move on from the one woman who had his heart, he
busies himself in work and returning to the country boy lifestyle he’s always
loved. The best way to get over someone is to get under someone, right? That’s
his mindset as he travels town to town with his job perfectly content with
being a rambling man…that is until he meets Danielle
Brooks.
When Dani isn't leaving
and Holden isn't staying will they be able to keep themselves from getting too
attached? Or will they be just what each other needs to cut all the strings
that have them bound?
“You can’t save me from
me, Holden.” –Dani
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Excerpt
Holden
I really don’t want to quit swinging. But the fact that I’m
starting to get a boner has me thinking I really need to slow down, get off the
swing, and adjust myself without Dani catching me.
Once the swing comes to a stop, neither happens. Instead,
Dani leans back and looks at me. Her blue eyes shining bright, I watch her
face, as she seems deep in thought. And then… she smiles. A full blown, heart
pounding, boner-inducing smile that has me wanting to turn this into some kind
of kinky sex swing.
“What?” I smile back. She’s contagious and I have a feeling
that I don’t ever want to find the antidote. I don’t need to be getting
attached, but it’s not like I live in a different state. I mean my home
home, the one I grew up in, is only two hours away. People make it
living twenty hours away. Yes, I work different places all the time, but it
doesn’t mean anything. In all reality, I’m still searching for my place to put
down my own roots. I don’t have to go back home one day. With my job, it’s
almost expected that I never do. It’s not like my dad visits as much as he
should, so why should I have an actual home if I don’t ever get to see it or
enjoy it.
“I just really like hanging out with you. It’s been a while
since I’ve truly been happy. So, for that, thank you.” And with that little
thanks said, she bends down and shows me her gratitude by placing her lips on
mine. She tries to make it short and sweet, and pulls away not knowing if she
should fully press on, but I quickly pull her tightly back in with one hand on
the back of her head and the other holding her cheek. I open my mouth,
encouraging her to do the same. Her tongue soon finds mine. I haven’t
legitimately made out with a girl in what seems like forever. Yes, I kissed the
girls that I’ve slept around with, but I have never felt anything, because I’ve
never felt anything towards them. I haven’t been friends with them or haven’t
known anything about them, so it’s been easy. I’ve had no trouble keeping
everything shut off. But with Dani, I feel. And I like feeling.
“Wait, I can’t do this.” She pulls back from me trying to
free herself from my hold.
“Why not?” I ask as confusion sets in.
“Because, I’m trying not to get attached to someone. And I’m
already doing that with you.”
Grabbing her face in my hands, I force her to look me in the
eyes as I ask her, “Do you want to be with me, Dani?”
“Holden, it doesn’t matter what I want. I gave that up months
ago.” Deep sadness fills her eyes.
I’ve finally found this sweet woman who makes my head all
crazy, stupid with thoughts of things I believed I’d never have, and she has
the weight of the world on her shoulders. She doesn’t have to say it, but I can
tell that she feels like everyone else in her life has to come first. The guilt
that she won’t let go of is heavy enough, let alone this extra burden that
she’s placed upon herself.
“What you want matters to me, and it should matter to
you.”
“You don’t even live here. One day you’ll be picking back up
and moving along to your next destination.”
Not only is she worried about the life she has here, she’s
worried about the life I’d have away from her. There are ways around obstacles,
and if this whole thing with us is going to be a giant sized puzzle, then I’m
going to solve it. If both people want something bad enough, then there is a
solution for it.
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Meet Erika
Being born an "Army
Brat", Erika Ashby has been residing in Oklahoma the last 10 years finally
putting an end to the nomad tendencies she had grown accustomed to. She's a
happily married woman who has 5 kids between her and her husband. She has an
insane passion for music and embraces her Inner Groupie any chance she has. It
wasn't until the age of 29 that she realized she also had a hidden passion for
reading; before then she claimed to have hated it. Six months after unlocking
that deep desire she never knew she held, she turned the key to another chapter
of her life which has become the desire to write. And the rest is still history
in the making.
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