tInterwoven
by Michelle
Montebello
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GENRE: Contemporary
Romance
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BLURB:
Belle
Hamilton is a romantic at heart. She's engaged to the love of her life and
dreams of marriage, children and a happily ever after. Belle’s world is close
to perfect until one afternoon she makes a decision she can't take back.
In the
blink of an eye, Belle’s life spirals out of control. She loses everything that
is dear to her and is forced to flee to the other side of the world where she
meets Andrea, a local bartender from Rome, and develops an unexpected
connection with him.
Can they
break through the complications of past hurts and a long-distance relationship
to make it work or will one terrifying night in Paris end it before it had a
chance to begin?
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EXCERPTS:
Belle woke to the trill of her phone. She’d fallen
asleep on the balcony, exhausted, her coffee cold in the cup beside her. The
sun had climbed higher into the sky and a lunch crowd had gathered on the
street below. It was midday.
She scrambled inside, found her phone wedged
between two lounge cushions, and stared at the screen. It was her mother.
‘Hello?’
‘Darling.’
Belle tried not to sound disappointed. ‘Hi, Mum.’
‘Not who you were expecting, then?’
‘No. It’s fine. What’s up?’
‘I rang to invite you to tea this afternoon. Are
you free?’
She was free. She probably had a whole weekend of
being free, thanks to her sacrilegious fiancé. ‘Today’s not good. I think I’m
coming down with a cold.’
‘You should come to tea.’
‘Another time, Mum.’
‘Ben was here. To see your father.’
Belle straightened, her interest piqued. ‘He was?
When?’
‘This morning.’
‘What did he say?’
‘I’m not too sure. They went straight into your
father’s office. They were in there a while. You know how the two of them can
be.’
Yes, Belle knew exactly how the two of them could
be. Thick as thieves.
‘I’m guessing not everything is as it should be
between the two of you,’ her mother said gently. ‘Ben could barely look me in the
eye when he came out. I knew something was going on.’
‘Things aren’t great, Mum. I’m worried about the
wedding. I think we might be over.’
‘What happened?’
‘It’s a long story,’ Belle said miserably. ‘He
won’t take any of my calls but it seems he wasted no time in speaking to Dad
about us.’
‘Why don’t you come and talk to your father?’ her
mother encouraged. ‘He might need to hear your side of the story.’
Her side of the story? What was there to tell? Ben
was the one who’d been unfaithful. He was the one who wouldn’t take her calls
or explain himself. Was it too much to ask that he leave her father out of it?
It seemed she had two options. She could wither in
her flat buried beneath the unfairness of it all or she could lift her chin,
drag herself to her parents’ house and try to sort through the debris that was
now her relationship. Neither sounded appealing.
‘I’ll be there at two.’
‘Lovely, darling.’
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Michelle
Montebello was born and raised in Sydney, Australia, where she lives with her
husband and two young children. She has always had a passion for reading,
writing and the dramatic arts and she spent most of her childhood immersed in
books, writing stories and performing in plays.
She
has worked full-time in the corporate sector since 1998. It wasn't until she
completed a writing course with James Patterson that she was inspired to write
and publish her first novel, Interwoven, in 2017.
In
addition to her writing, she also has a passion for travel and loves to combine
her two favourite things - creative writing and travelling - to create vibrant
worlds for her characters to explore.
When
this busy mum is not working, chasing little ones or searching under beds for
monsters, she can be found reading, writing or plotting her next story.
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