Somebody Like You
By
Donna Alward
BLURB:
A kiss to last a lifetime
Aiden Gallagher was only five years old when he appeared in a photograph on the Kissing Bridge. The town of Darling, Vermont, has used Aiden’s image on the famed bridge—local legend has it that a kiss there results in everlasting love—as part of its tourism campaign. Now, twenty years later, Aiden is asked to recreate the moment with the woman he once kissed: Laurel Stone.
Recently divorced, there’s nothing Laurel wants less than to pretend happily-ever-after with Aiden. As teenagers, their romance was no fairy tale—and Laurel has never quite forgiven Aiden for breaking her heart. But now that she is back in her hometown, and keeps bumping into police officer Aiden, Laurel can’t deny that there’s still a strong flicker between her and her old flame. Could it be that the Kissing Bridge is working its magic on Laurel and Aiden—and that all true love ever needed was a second chance?
REVIEW:
Laurel is trying very hard to please everyone while ignoring her own needs. She thinks the last thing she needs is Aiden. I think many of us can identify with Laurel. As women we often think our job is to fix everything thing and keep everyone happy. I think that Laurel did an outstanding job of that but she did need Aiden to show her how to do what she needed for herself. I loved how supportive he was and how their story came to a very nice and surprising HEA. A great start to a new series. I have already read book two and am looking forward to book three.
Laurel is trying very hard to please everyone while ignoring her own needs. She thinks the last thing she needs is Aiden. I think many of us can identify with Laurel. As women we often think our job is to fix everything thing and keep everyone happy. I think that Laurel did an outstanding job of that but she did need Aiden to show her how to do what she needed for herself. I loved how supportive he was and how their story came to a very nice and surprising HEA. A great start to a new series. I have already read book two and am looking forward to book three.
EXCERPT:
By the time they were through,
it was nine o’clock and time to open. Being a Saturday, business was brisk. Her
dad dropped off the supplies and offered to stay to help cover the tagging, but
with the heavy shopping traffic, Laurel decided to wait until things died down.
For now the tarps covered the tags, and she’d focus on her customers. Otherwise
her anger would get the best of her and that was bad for business. By six p.m.,
things had slowed considerably.
Laurel had been going flat out
for ten hours, stopping for only fifteen minutes to run to The Purple Pig for a
sandwich. Her stomach growled, her feet hurt, there was dirt beneath her nails
and she really, really wanted a shower and a glass of wine—in that order.
Laurel had just dragged out the hose to water the fruit trees when a half- ton
truck drove into the lot and parked in an empty space.
The
driver hopped out, and her heart slammed against her ribs as she immediately
realized how she must look. Dirty jeans, mannish golf shirt that did nothing
for her figure, scrubby ponytail through a
Ladybug Garden Center ball cap, and prob ably smudges of dirt on her face and
arms. Not that she was trying to look nice for Aiden or anything, but it was
him getting out of the truck, looking sexy as hell in faded jeans and a T-
shirt that stretched across
his chest and shoulders.
She
could pretend she hadn’t seen him. Resolutely she turned on the hose and
started watering the apple trees.
“Hey,
Laurel,” he called out, and that erased any hope of avoiding him.
She
turned off the hose and faced him. “Aiden. What brings you by? Looking for a
shrub or tree or something?”
Keep
it businesslike, she reminded herself. The last thing she needed was for him to
know that he had the ability to fluster her.
“I
heard about what happened.”
Of
course he had.
“Don’t
even. I’m still pissed.”
“I
know it’s not what you needed. Did Crystal tell you that you weren’t the only
one hit?”
Crystal
must be the officer from this morning. “She did.”
“Well,
that must make you feel better.”
She
stared at him. “Better? Seriously? Since I opened a month ago, I’ve had to have
the driveway re- graded, I’ve had to replace shrubs that were stolen from out
front, deal with a break-in and vandalism,
and now tagging. Trust me, Aiden, the only thing that would feel better is if
you actually did your job and found out who was doing this.”
DONNA ALWARD BIO:
While bestselling author Donna Alward was busy studying Austen, Eliot and Shakespeare, she was also losing herself in the breathtaking stories created by romance novelists like LaVyrle Spencer, Judith McNaught, and Nora Roberts. Several years after completing her degree she decided to write a romance of her own and it was true love! Five years and ten manuscripts later she sold her first book and launched a new career. While her heartwarming stories of love, hope, and homecoming have been translated into several languages, hit bestseller lists and won awards, her very favorite thing is when she hears from happy readers!
Donna lives on Canada’s east coast with her family which includes a husband, a couple of kids, a senior dog and two crazy cats. When she’s not writing she enjoys reading (of course!), knitting, gardening, cooking…and is a Masterpiece Theater addict.
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You really zoomed in on how we as women try to please everyone. Was that ever a problem with you?
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the excerpt, sounds like a good read.