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And We’ll Defy – by I Am Giant
I close my eyes and follow you…
I love
writing that moment in a romance, where the lead character realises they trust
their new lover / partner. It might be a
bolt out of the blue, or a slow realisation, or sometimes when it’s almost too
late and they realise just how much they might lose.
By this
time, the characters have usually taken up residence in my head, and I feel as
though I know them. I replay imaginary conversations while I’m driving, and
have protracted discussions with my critique partners and beta reader about how
they’re behaving. It gets crowded in my head at times, especially when they’re
nagging me to write faster, to get their story on the page now! But then we hit
those pivotal moments, and like pouring some kitty bix into a bowl to keep the
cat quiet, there’s a short period of blissful silence.
I Am
Giant are one of
those underrated Kiwi rock bands, who really should be better known, and they
featured highly on my playlist for Crash Into Love. I adore this track,
so if you get a couple of minutes, have a listen J
In this
excerpt from Crash Into Love, Cass is talking to Jonah properly, for the
first time.
~
Throwing caution to the winds, I
dropped to sit on the deck a few feet away. I took a generous slug of wine
before I spoke. “The night sky never fails to take my breath away. It’s
completely different from where I used to live in England.”
“Have you been here long? In New
Zealand?”
I wondered again why he’d ignored me
earlier but wanted to talk now. I replied carefully. “Just over ten years. I
married a Kiwi who wanted to take me home with him.” Jonah cocked his head at
me in an unspoken question. “He traded me in for a younger model. We’re
divorced now.” It was almost true. The papers wouldn’t be finalized for a few
months, but the marriage had been over for years.
“I’m sorry.” Jonah sounded as though
he meant it, and I shrugged, keen to shake off the dismal mood that had fallen.
“Don’t be, I’m glad now.” I took a
deep breath. Dare I say it? “If I was still married, I wouldn’t be sitting here
now.”
“Any children?”
“One, a son. Dylan.” My minuscule,
beachside romance was about to be snuffed out before it had even started. “He’s
about your age.”
Jonah snorted into his glass. “I’m
twenty-four. You don’t look old enough.”
I smiled into my wine. “Thanks. I’m
still ten years older than you. I had Dylan when I was sixteen, and I met
Colin, my ex, later. You remind me of Dylan’s real father. He was a guitarist,
too.” Why was I prattling on? Scare him away Cass, why don’t you?
Jonah stared into his glass. “I’m
not, anymore.” His voice was so low, I struggled to hear him. “I’m not anything
now.” He took a deep breath and pushed himself to a standing position. “I
should go.”
There was something I had to know,
and the wine had made me bold enough to ask. “Why did you ignore me tonight? I
didn’t mean to intrude. Your friends invited me.”
He stared down at me, his dark eyes
burning into my soul. Slowly, carefully, he placed the empty glass on the table
and then reached out a hand to me. Surprised, I let him pull me to my feet. His
grip was warm and sure, but he let go when I stood before him. I felt a flicker
of uncertainty. He opened his mouth as though to speak and then paused. “I
couldn’t focus.” The words were slow and measured. “I wanted this instead.”
His hand lifted to slide into my
hair, pushing back a stray lock and tucking it behind my ear. The breath caught
in my throat. Spellbound, I searched his face, seeing the same intensity I
glimpsed earlier. Fingertips trailed down my cheek before he traced my lips.
“Soft,” he whispered. I was lost.
Time stopped. There was just Jonah and me, with the moon and the stars behind
his head and his voice in my heart.
~
Blurb:
Cass thought spending a month at a
beachside hideaway relaxing and collecting shells would be the perfect escape
to finish her novel. When she meets the dark and brooding and much younger
Jonah, who's staying next door, her book becomes the last thing on her mind.
Jonah would rather stay home alone than go
on vacation with his brother and their friends, but does his best to tolerate
the situation after being convinced to go. But when he sees the beauty next
door, he can’t avoid his attraction.
Together, they break all the rules, but
will Cass be able to bring Jonah out of his shell forever, or will he leave her
with only the crash of the surf to keep her company?
~
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Romance author Sofia Grey spends her days
managing projects in the corporate world and her nights hanging out with wolf
shifters and alpha males. She devours pretty much anything in the fiction line,
but she prefers her romances to be hot, and her heroes to have hidden depths.
When writing, she enjoys peeling back the layers to expose her characters’
flaws and always makes them work hard for their happy endings.
Music is
interwoven so tightly into my writing that I can’t untangle the two. Either I’m
listening to a playlist on my iPod, have music seeping from my laptop speakers,
or there’s a song playing in my head – sometimes on auto-repeat.
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