Abruption
by
Riley Mackenzie
Cover Designer: Sarah Hansen with Okay Creations
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 5, 2016 |
~ Synopsis ~
Everyone has a plan.
Dr. Guy Hunter secures his dream
fellowship with a beautiful free spirit by his side. Two unexpected blue lines
don't even shake his resolve—he is on his way to having it all. Until he isn’t.
Abruption: a sudden breaking off
Jules Chiappetti loves her boisterous
over-involved Italian family but is determined to pave her own way. An MBA and
boardroom job is her ticket out. Until it isn’t.
Abruption: an unexpected event
Four years later, Guy is consumed by
the challenges of being a single father, still struggling with the aftermath
that derailed his life and left his son with special needs. He doesn't realize
his world went dark the same day his wife's did, until Jules, his son's new
nurse, shows him the light.
~ Excerpt ~
I was the selfish
bastard acting as if I was the only one taking a risk. The same scenario had
played out in my mind and it was the reason I avoided dating all these years. I
find a woman that’s into me, accepts my kids. Finn and Max get attached and
then she realizes she didn’t sign up for insta-family. It was never worth
putting my kids through the disappointment they had enough shit luck with their
own mother. But what if a woman truly fell for me and the kids and I was
the one to walk away? What if I bailed? In the end Finn and Max would always be
mine, always be with me. Where would that leave a woman like that?
Jules was a woman
like that.
She wasn’t most women.
Fuck, her risk
suddenly seemed greater.
Bringing me back to
the reason I was a selfish bastard.
Without hesitation, I
nuzzled back into the same position against her neck but this time I wrapped my
arms around her center and pulled her against my chest. I needed to make this
right. I wanted her to feel my heart racing. “How about we take our time and
give each other the chance to say yes. Just give me the heads up whenever we
need that minute. Yeah?”
Her arms tightened
over mine. “Yeah.”
I kissed my now
favorite spot on her neck again then said, “Now how about we eat some breakfast
beautiful, so you can shower and we can start our weekend. Or is there a
minimum hour before you take off your slippers that I should know about?” She
moved so we were face-to-face, her eyes now honey caramel. Damn she was
beautiful.
“They’re not
slippers, they’re Uggs.”
Stubborn.
And definitely not most
women.
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~ Review ~
I was eagerly awaiting the release of a new read from Riley
Mackenzie and it was worth the wait. The
story delivered beneath this beautiful cover was full of loss, acceptance,
struggle, healing and most of love.
Jules has her own juggling to do but hers is more on an emotional
level. Again, unlike the norm in Abruption we get two damaged individuals
trying to make their way through the hurt and pain to make a new start for
themselves. Taking a position in the
medical field that allows her to interact with children on a daily basis
soothes an old wound for her but often sparks memories too.
Guy and Jules get off to a rocky start but their interactions
are nothing short of entertaining. Both
with their own stubborn streaks, they chip away at each other’s hardened hearts
to find that they are perfectly suited for one another both emotionally and
physically. I loved Guy’s term of
endearment for Jules. I got a warm and fuzzy feeling every time he called her “doll”.
The story captured me from page one and held my attention till
the very last word. There were most definitely
some heavy, emotional moments that made me cry and yes there was even a gasp of
surprise! {No I didn’t see that coming!}
Whether you have read or are new to the writing of Riley
Mackenzie you are in for a treat. This book
is definitely a well-rounded read that will stay with you after you close the
book.
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~ About the Authors ~
Yep. That's an “s.” There are two
of us!
We’re East coast girls separated by
Long Island Sound who met in Physician Assistant School and have been besties
ever since. We can safely say that thirteen miles of water does not get in the
way because we talk or text, no exaggeration, at least 150 times a day. No,
really, we do—about everything and nothing. Shockingly, we never (we mean
never) run out of things to say. Umm, ever. We definitely laugh A LOT and we’re
a tad sarcastic. And if we’re being totally honest, one or two people might
have, on occasion, used our names and ‘dramatic’ in the same sentence. But it’s
hard to trust the sources since they married us.
It only took twelve years, two
husbands, five kids, two dogs, and a two-week vacation in Cape Cod later to
decide the romance world needed a splash of medicine. Write what you know.
So you can easily find us at 4
o'clock on Bank Street beach with a glass of cold Prosecco brainstorming. And
guaranteed if we bump into you, literally, it’s only because our iPhones are
glued to our hands (totally out of our control) either writing or editing our
next novel (and yes, it is possible to do from your iPhone, we mastered it …
damn those straight quotations).
When we are not working on our book
or reading the latest angsty romance on our kindles, you basically name it and
we have it going on. Soccer, lacrosse, golf, swimming, dance, gymnastics,
football, chess, baseball, basketball, skiing, ice skating, school, homework,
and more school.
Oh yeah, did we forget to mention
our careers in medicine?
Needless to say, we realized fast
that something had to go, so we opted for sleep. It’s completely overrated (yet
so AMAZING) and delirium makes everything funnier. Good thing we share a brain
and can pretty much complete each other’s sentences (definitely weird, we
know), otherwise it might have taken us two years to write Beautifully Awake
rather than one.
So that’s our story, who we are …
just add AUTHORS to the list!
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