IFB is hosting the promo event for Sherrie Wouters' debut
fantasy novel. Continue below for an excerpt &
giveaway.
Release date: June 6th
2014
Synopsis via Goodreads:
Some promises are made to last forever ... What if you fell
in love with a stranger ... but that stranger had come from your past, a past
you never knew existed until the moment your eyes
met?
When Tess Winters locks eyes with a stranger at an airport
bookstore, it ignites a feeling of passion somewhere deep inside her that she
can't explain. Although the encounter is innocent and
brief, the intensity of it lingers, leaving her overwhelmed by a yearning for
the mystery man now consuming her every thought.
Struggling to break the powerful hold he has over her
heart, Tess starts to experience strange but familiar dreams...dreams from the
turn of the twentieth century of the charming Mr Addison
Taylor.
As her dreams start to materialize into reality, and past
and present begin to blur, Tess is forced to put the pieces of a forgotten time
together, and soon discovers that love isn't the only thing that can find you
after an eternity. Captivating, mysterious, and romantic, Life Lived Twice will
leave you wondering whether love is so powerful it could last more than a
lifetime.
EXCERPT
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By
the time I’d examined his tanned calves, the masculinity of
his skin was lingering in the air between us. He smelt
sensational, and I found myself uncontrollably breathing in
as I rose.
Now
curious to see more, I kept going. But as I began to move,
an odd
sensation of warmth radiating from him came over me; it was almost like an invisible hand caressing
my skin. My heart fluttered at the idea of it, and suddenly blood was rushing to all the wrong places
as I felt an unexpected
thrill of anticipation.
After tracing his body all the way up to his chest, my
wandering eyes didn’t seem to want to stop, and they were soon up to
his neck and following the stubble along his jaw, right up to his light
brown hair. And then he spoke. The sound of his voice jolted me from
my daydream and pulled my gaze to his.
“Addison!” I gasped as our eyes
collided. From the moment the name left my lips, my eyes widened ...
stared ... and became lost in his. As a rush of airy weightlessness
floated me from the floor, suddenly everything felt more enhanced, more
real, like something inside me had suddenly woken
up. It
was an intoxicating feeling and the longer I stood entranced,
the further his beautiful blue eyes reached into mine. Somehow
they were knocking on the door to my heart, stirring something so
powerful it made me want to cry and laugh at the same time and, for a brief
second, there was something in his eyes that made me feel complete.
Suddenly his brows squeezed then softened. “Ah ... um ...
sorry about the electric shock.” He smiled. “But who’s
Addison?”
My
throat tightened as warmth flushed my cheeks. Who the
hell was
Addison?
Embarrassment pulled my eyes from his. “Oh,” I said, choking
on my words,
“Um ... ah ... no ... I don’t know anyone called Addison ... I mean, um ...
”
“Oh!” He smiled cheekily as he leaned towards me and
whispered. “You sounded so convinced I was him ... I thought for a
second I could be. I mean, if you wanted me to be.”
My
face shot back to his, words jamming in my throat as I
stared. Who was this guy, this stranger? In just a few seconds he’d
turned my soul inside out, and now he was charming me with his words as
well.
As
his lips rose into a smile, I couldn’t help but smile back. But
panic quickly returned to my constricted throat as that name
re-entered my head.
Suddenly aware of the warmth still creeping across my face, I
managed to pull my eyes from his again and divert my gaze. Addison,
Addison, who the hell was Addison? I couldn’t budge the name from my
thoughts.
As
I stood fidgeting, I could feel him staring, waiting for me to
say something, anything. After taking a breath, I shifted my gaze
and we locked eyes again as I spoke. “Um,” I said, swallowing hard,
“I must be mistaken ... sorry.”
About the
Author
Sherrie Wouters is a thirty something flame haired chick
who accidentally wrote a book and is now an author. A qualified
Homeoeopath and Kinesiologist, Sherrie lives in country Victoria, Australia
with her husband, and two daughters. She is currently working on the sequel to
Life Lived Twice.
Thanks for participating :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for participating in my Book Blitz for Life Lived Twice. I really appreciate you featuring it on your wonderful website. Sherrie X
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