I am happy to introduce the first author guest on Write
with Fey for 2015...Alicia Dean! She’s sharing the blurb and excerpt for her
new book, End of Lonely Street.
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Title: End of Lonely Street
Author: Alicia Dean
Genre: Vintage Historical Romance
Page Count: 61
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Release Date: January 8th 2014
Blurb:
Can she let go of the past, before it destroys her future?
All Toby Lawson wanted was to go to college to pursue her dream of
becoming a teacher and to be free of her alcoholic mother and the painful
memories of finding her and the guy Toby loved kissing. But when her mother
nearly burns the house down, Toby must put her dreams on hold and return home
to care for her. The only time she isn’t lonely and miserable is when she’s
listening to her heartthrob, Elvis Presley. His music takes her away, helps her
escape from everything wrong in her life.
Noah Rivers has always loved Toby, but no matter what he says, and even though
she knows her mother initiated the kiss, and that he didn’t kiss her back, she
can‘t seem to get past what happened. He soon realizes that the true problem
lies in Toby’s belief that she’s not good enough for him and in her fear that
she will be just like her mother.
What will it take to prove to her that she deserves to be happy, and that
he would give anything to be the man to make her dreams come true?
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Excerpt:
After work that night, Toby wasn’t ready to go home, so
she sat in her car in the parking lot of Winstead’s, listening to the radio.
“Love Me” by Elvis came on, and she cranked the volume.
Nothing else calmed her and lightened her heart like
listening to him. She could escape into his music and all the bad just…faded
away. When Elvis sang, there was no drunken mother, no failed dreams, no dying
Miss Murdock. Toby didn’t only listen to his music, she felt it. It seemed to
vibrate through her blood.
Although she was embarrassed to admit it, sometimes
listening to him, watching him on television, made her all squirmy and hot—just
like Noah made her feel. Especially that one night, when they had almost gone
all the way.
Toby had been a senior in high school, and he’d graduated
the year before. He picked her up and they drove out to the bluff, known as
Make Out Row, overlooking downtown Mapleton.
The town was shrouded in darkness, but scattered lights
shone, as though a starry sky were laid out below them. There were other cars
around, but closed up in their cocoon, it was as though they were the only two
people on Earth. Noah had kissed her, deep and long, whispering love words,
telling her she was special, beautiful. She’d fallen in love with him at that
very moment—wanted to be with him forever. He’d been the one to halt their make
out session. She would have willingly gone all the way that night. She was
helplessly under his spell…the feel of his lips on hers, his hand covering her
breast through her thin blouse…
A tapping sound on the window made her jump. She looked
through the glass to find Noah standing outside the car. Was he real, or just
part of the fantasy world she’d drifted to? When another tap came, she blinked
away the memories. He was definitely real.
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Author Bio:
Alicia Dean lives in Edmond, Oklahoma. She has three
grown children and a huge network of supportive friends and family. She writes
mostly contemporary suspense and paranormal, but has also written in other
genres, including a few vintage historicals.
She is a freelance editor in addition to being an editor
for The Wild Rose Press.
Other than reading and writing, her passions are Elvis
Presley, MLB, NFL (she usually works in a mention of one or all three into her
stories) and watching her favorite televisions shows like Vampire Diaries,
Justified, Sons of Anarchy, Haven, The Mindy Project, and Dexter (even though
it has sadly ended, she will forever be a fan). Some of her favorite authors
are Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, Lee Child, Lisa Gardner, Sharon Sala,
Jordan Dane, Ridley Pearson, Joseph Finder, and Jonathan Kellerman…to name a
few.
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Thank you for sharing your new book with us, Alicia Dean!
I’m thrilled to have you on my blog! :)
QUESTION: How did you like the excerpt for End of Lonely Street?
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