Contemporary romantic fiction
Release Date: 27th June 2016
Luke
is the man with the money, the fast car and the hot woman. There’s no way he
would even think about getting serious, but a face he can’t remember soon threatens
his calm.
Rebecca isn’t interested in a relationship,
and definitely not with him. How could she, after all he put her through? She’s
spent the last 4 years hiding away from society, a one-woman crusade for
children’s road safety. Who would have thought one fateful day, it might almost
be her ... again.
As
two worlds collide, will opposites attract?
Not
if she can help it.
EXTRACT
Close up, she was like a porcelain
doll, fragile and poised. Her skin was nearly as pale as her hair. Only her
lips, with their deep pomegranate flush and those denim blue eyes brought life
to an otherwise frosty palette and that dazzled him.
She seemed so together now, quite a
different woman from the one he had witnessed before. He tried to think of a
reason to speak to her, but nothing would come to mind. She paid for her milk
and butter and glanced sideways at him, so cool and detached in his presence,
and then she left the shop.
Luke placed his tin on the counter
and chased after her. The lady behind the till called out to him as he sprinted
away, but he ignored her. He needed to speak to the woman.
He caught up with her in a matter of
seconds, catching her by the elbow as she tried to walk away. The woman turned
and looked daggers at him and Luke was disarmed. He held up his hands. “I’m
sorry.” He took a step back. “I just wanted to apologise for the other day.”
The woman said nothing, just looked
at him and Luke felt his confidence slipping.
“I … I shouldn’t have left you there
on the side of the road.”
“You shouldn’t have tried to knock
me down in the first place,” she shot back, before he could blink.
Luke had not been prepared for an
attack. “Er. No. But you did step out in front of me.”
“Well you should have been paying
more attention, shouldn’t you?”
“I should…?”
She tried to turn away.
“Look.” This was definitely not
going to plan. “I just wanted to say I was sorry.”
“What for, in particular?”
What?
The woman rolled her eyes and tried
to turn away from him, but he reached for her again.
“Wait. What did you mean by that?
For the other day, of course. I’m sure I apologised at the time, but … you were
just a bit … vacant. You probably don’t remember.”
“Vacant?!”
“I’m sorry. What I’m trying to say
is I should have made sure you were okay. I had hoped we could be civil about
this.” Apparently not.
“Civil is a lawsuit, Luke. Go drive
your fancy car with your fancy girlfriend and leave me alone,” and she stormed
away from him up the road.
Luke’s jaw hung open. Such contempt from a
woman he’d barely met. But the thing that had shaken him most of all, was that she seemed to know him.
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WENDY LOU JONES
My name is Wendy Lou
Jones. I was born and raised in West Sussex, England and moved to Birmingham to
study Medicine at University, where I was lucky enough to meet my husband. We
now live in a little village in Herefordshire with our two grubby boys. I
discovered a love of writing not long after my youngest son started school. And
if you were to ask me what it was that made me make the switch, I’d tell you
quite simply, that it started with a dream.
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