by Alexa Jacobs
Release Date: October 30th 2015
Summary from Goodreads;
Olivia Reynolds was free. Twenty years old, living in New York City, and having absolutely no idea what she wanted to be when she grew up, every day would be an adventure, or at least that was the plan. When a phone call from her brother lands her back in her home town, and dealing with an unexpected tragedy, she comes face to face her brother’s best friend Dean and realizes that the feelings she had buried long ago were still there. Dean Winston has lived with the fact that Olivia walked out of his life two years ago, and was never coming back. With her back in town, he struggles to be the friend that she needs him to be, and not the lover that she once wanted him to be. With lines between childhood friends and secret lovers once again blurring, Olivia must decide between the possibilities of her future and the ties of her past. Some strings just refuse to be cut.
Excerpt:
He
had no idea how long he had been sitting there letting the rain pour down on
him. His shirt was soaked, his jeans were sticking to him. Minutes, hours, who
knew? He had thrown the covers off himself nearly eight hours earlier and
gotten into his truck. He was mad, he was furious, he was sad, he was lost, he
was fearful, and he was every damned emotion he had ever experienced. He drove
through the early morning into New York, knowing that he was going to end this
game he had been playing with her. He was going to say every single thing they
had spent years not saying. He found parking in a nearby hotel garage and
stomped on the pavement, rain spouting up around his black work boots. Every
damned word they had not said. When they had kissed the first time. When he had
spent weeks and months being careful to never be alone with his best friend’s
little sister afterward. Words never said when they happened to catch each
other staring, and the small second of eye contact before a reluctant break and
they each returned their attention to the world. Words they never said the
night they made love. Words they never said when she showed up madder than hell
at him in that little red dress. All the words scattered and screaming inside
his mind.
About the Author
Alexa Jacobs was born and raised in the suburban outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland. She met her husband through friends in high school, and began what turned out to be a short lived career in the financial industry. With her first child, she became a stay at home parent and threw all of her energy into becoming the queen of Pinterest before Pinterest was a thing.
When her second child headed off to kindergarten, Alexa thought that it was time for a career change.
After a decade with at least one child underfoot 24 hours a day, it was time for her to discover who she was going to be when she grew up.
Turns out, she was a mom who sat by the window and cried the entire day on that first day of “freedom” from early parenthood.
A few months, and many kindergarten volunteer days later, she sat down at the computer and dusted off the rough draft of a story she had crafted years ago. That draft turned into her debut book, Rising Ridge.
Alexa is a member of the Romance Writers of America, and participates in many writer circle groups.
When her second child headed off to kindergarten, Alexa thought that it was time for a career change.
After a decade with at least one child underfoot 24 hours a day, it was time for her to discover who she was going to be when she grew up.
Turns out, she was a mom who sat by the window and cried the entire day on that first day of “freedom” from early parenthood.
A few months, and many kindergarten volunteer days later, she sat down at the computer and dusted off the rough draft of a story she had crafted years ago. That draft turned into her debut book, Rising Ridge.
Alexa is a member of the Romance Writers of America, and participates in many writer circle groups.
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