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Exclusive Excerpt
Katherine
Now
I am giddy with anticipation after answering Ethan’s final text. He wants to see me.
Me.
Silly, messed-up me.
I can’t focus, can hardly think straight. That sign, keep calm and carry on? I couldn’t do that if I tried.
I know what’s going on, though.
I understand.
I think.
I have a crush. A real-life, bona fide crush on a sweet, goodlooking guy who I think is also interested in me. He must be if he said he wanted to see me again, right?
I can’t believe I’m so comfortable with him. It’s so unlike me. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Men make me nervous, and with good reason. I’ve been hurt too many times to trust a man who is a virtual stranger.
Ethan didn’t feel like a stranger at all. He felt like someone I’ve known for a long time. He’s comfortable—and not in a bad way. In a good, exciting way, if comfortable can even feel like that, which I think it can. I caught him watching me more than once, and every time our gazes connected, I experienced butterflies breaking free in my stomach, making my breath shuddery and my entire body quake.
Ridiculous.
Thrilling.
I toss my phone on the couch and dance around my house in my socks, my feet sliding on the hardwood floor. I almost fall but catch myself, giggling as I twirl around in a circle, making myself dizzy.
Or maybe I’m dizzy from Ethan. A man whose last name I don’t even know.
But for once I don’t care.
I just want to get to know him. Find out more.
Find out . . .
Everything.
Now
I am giddy with anticipation after answering Ethan’s final text. He wants to see me.
Me.
Silly, messed-up me.
I can’t focus, can hardly think straight. That sign, keep calm and carry on? I couldn’t do that if I tried.
I know what’s going on, though.
I understand.
I think.
I have a crush. A real-life, bona fide crush on a sweet, goodlooking guy who I think is also interested in me. He must be if he said he wanted to see me again, right?
I can’t believe I’m so comfortable with him. It’s so unlike me. Nothing like this has ever happened before. Men make me nervous, and with good reason. I’ve been hurt too many times to trust a man who is a virtual stranger.
Ethan didn’t feel like a stranger at all. He felt like someone I’ve known for a long time. He’s comfortable—and not in a bad way. In a good, exciting way, if comfortable can even feel like that, which I think it can. I caught him watching me more than once, and every time our gazes connected, I experienced butterflies breaking free in my stomach, making my breath shuddery and my entire body quake.
Ridiculous.
Thrilling.
I toss my phone on the couch and dance around my house in my socks, my feet sliding on the hardwood floor. I almost fall but catch myself, giggling as I twirl around in a circle, making myself dizzy.
Or maybe I’m dizzy from Ethan. A man whose last name I don’t even know.
But for once I don’t care.
I just want to get to know him. Find out more.
Find out . . .
Everything.
Synopsis and Purchase Link
New Adult Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 5th
A long time ago, when I was fifteen and a completely different person, I saved a girl’s life. I spent only a handful of hours with her, but somehow, we connected—and I’ve never been the same. No one understands what we went through. No one knows what it’s like to be us. We survived, yet I don’t feel like I’m really living—until now. Eight years later, I find her. I want to make her mine. I need to make her mine. But she’ll hate me forever when she finds out who I really am.
About the Author
New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author Monica Murphy is a native Californian who lives in the foothills below Yosemite with her husband and three children. She's a workaholic who loves her job. When she's not busy writing, she also loves to read and travel with her family. She writes new adult and contemporary romance and is published with Bantam and Avon. She also writes romance as USA Today bestselling author Karen Erickson.
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