FACADE
by Nyrae Dawn
Publication Date:
September 24, 2013
Genre: New Adult
Mass Market
ISBN:9781455576319
Can love save them?
After her father commits a crime that shatters her family, eighteen-year-old Delaney Cross is tired of pretending everything is all right. Packing up her car, she sets out to find the people her father hurt. Her search leads her to places she’s never been—and into the arms of Adrian Westfall.
To the outside world, Adrian is a sexy, charming ladies’ man. But his playboy persona is just an act. Secretly his soul is tortured by a memory too painful to share. Only Delaney seems to see through his façade to the real man underneath. And for the first time in his life, Adrian feels he can begin to open up about his past.
Together, Adrian and Delaney share a passionate love they never expected to find. Yet both still harbor their own secrets. When the dark truth is finally revealed, will it bring them closer together—or tear them apart forever?
After her father commits a crime that shatters her family, eighteen-year-old Delaney Cross is tired of pretending everything is all right. Packing up her car, she sets out to find the people her father hurt. Her search leads her to places she’s never been—and into the arms of Adrian Westfall.
To the outside world, Adrian is a sexy, charming ladies’ man. But his playboy persona is just an act. Secretly his soul is tortured by a memory too painful to share. Only Delaney seems to see through his façade to the real man underneath. And for the first time in his life, Adrian feels he can begin to open up about his past.
Together, Adrian and Delaney share a passionate love they never expected to find. Yet both still harbor their own secrets. When the dark truth is finally revealed, will it bring them closer together—or tear them apart forever?
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Exclusive Q&A with Nyrae....
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Writing has always been Nyrae
Dawn's passion. Nyrae gravitates toward character-driven stories. She loves
going on emotional journeys with characters whether it be reading or writing.
And yes, she's a total romantic at heart and proud.
When she's not with her family, you can be pretty
sure you'll find her with a book in her hand or her laptop and an open document
in front of her. Nyrae also writes adult romance under the name Kelley Vitollo.
Check out this excerpt....
When
I see my sister, Angel, walk over to Ash’s grave I don’t get out of the car.
When some guy walks up and grabs her hand, I don’t know who he is and yet, I
don’t bother finding out. They hug and I don’t walk over and do the same thing
to her. It’s not our thing to stand around having some group, mourning session
over the two year-old boy who died too soon.
Nope. This is real life. Not like
all the stupid fucking books I read or the movies people watch or the reality
shows that couldn’t be farther away from reality.
Without moving an inch, I watch her.
Watch as she sets flowers on Ashton’s grave. As the guy pulls her into a hug.
As they kneel on the ground, probably talking to him in a way I’ll never have
the balls to do.
The guy says something to her and
then gets up and walks away. I duck further down in my seat, but no one is
paying attention to me. He heads back to a little car and waits.
Angel’s hands go to her face and I
know she’s crying in them. Know she’s mourning the loss of Ash, the boy she
loved so much. The boy she took care of better than any mom could. I know she
sent the guy away because she’s like me and needs to handle shit on her own.
Only unlike me, she’ll never run.
She cries out there for probably
thirty minutes. The whole time my chest is tight. Aching. It’s hard to breathe
and I want to turn away, but I don’t. I deserve to feel this way and deserve to
see this.
A fist squeezes tighter and tighter
around my heart. My face is wet, but I don’t bother to wipe away the tears,
either. Real men don’t fucking cry. That’s what dad always said before he hit
me in a series of body shots, until I couldn’t stop myself from doing just what
he said I shouldn’t do.
Then he’d beat me harder for being
weak.
Angel’s shoulders are shaking. I can
tell from this far away.
I’m not an idiot. Never have been. I
know it wouldn’t make me weak to walk over there and hug her. To hold her and
tell her it’ll be okay, but I still won’t do it. What right do I have to try
and console her, when I’m the one who destroyed everything?
When I’m the one who let Ash die?
So I sit here and watch her, just so
I’ll never forget the pain I caused.
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