Ink & Lies
by
S.L. Jennings
S.L. Jennings
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| Expected Release Date: February 2016 |
~ Synopsis ~
From
International Best Selling Romance Novelist, Hope Hughes, comes a gripping,
heartfelt tale of two lovers, fighting for the freedom to…
No. Scratch that. Too cheesy.
…two
people, torn apart by the tumultuous tides of life, only to discover refuge in…
WTF? What does that even mean?
DELETE.
…two
people, confused as shit as to where they should be and who they should love
and none of this means a damn thing because it’s all lies!
Lies.
I’m not Hope Hughes. I’m not some
fierce woman romance machine. Hell, I’m not even a woman.
I’m a liar.
And while I refuse to believe my
own BS, deceit masked in heartfelt phrases of love and devotion, I want to make her believe them. Because maybe—just
maybe—if she can find the soul within my words, she’ll also be able to find the
truth scribbled on my heart.
You see, I once lived for the
perfect plot twist.
I just never expected to actually live it.
This is my story. Well, maybe her
story. I just wish I could make it our
story.
The one I’m still writing.
~ Excerpt ~
Prologue
You know that pivotal
moment in every love story, when the hero or heroine makes an imperative move
that leaves the other with a life-altering choice? Whether it be a
pronouncement of love (I’ve been in love with you my entire life, and I don’t
care that you’re my stepbrother) or a salacious secret (I’m pregnant and the
baby isn’t yours) or a shocking decision (I’ve decided to embrace what I am…
I’m transitioning into a unicorn, and I’m pregnant by my stepbrother), we can
always count on this familiar occurrence.
I’ve
always deemed them cliché yet necessary in the romance genre. A good plot twist
is as vital to a story as its characters. Without it, the hero and heroine
would have no reason to change, to evolve. They’d have no reason to step out on
faith and madness and take hold of their destiny. Take hold of their story.
I once lived for the
perfect plot twist.
I just never expected
to actually live it.
I look down at my
boarding pass for the eightieth time in the last fifteen minutes. Gate 3B, Seat
2A. GEG to LAX. Final boarding in…now.
Sixteen hours ago, I
succumbed to the insanity of feeling, and made my crucial confession. I began
that almighty trek up a story’s climactic mountain. And every hour, every
minute, since, I’ve waited for her to make her choice.
To make me her
choice.
The attendant glares
at me from over her intercom receiver and announces that the gate for flight
D5611 will be closing in sixty seconds. She’s saying it for only me, because
I’m the only one here. Waiting. Crumbling.
I take one last look
down the corridor that leads to security. I just knew that she’d show up,
racing through the airport, screaming for someone to stop the plane. That was
how I’d imagined my story…our story. The greatest cliché of all, and I still
couldn’t breathe it into fruition. I still couldn’t get her to read between the
lines scrawled on my heart.
I guess the most epic
romances are still tucked away within the pages of her favorite novels, safely
swathed in inked lies and faded paper promises. Forever fictional. Just like
love.
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~ About
the Author ~
Most known for her starring role in a popular sitcom as a child,
S.L. Jennings went on to earn her law degree from Harvard at the young age of
16. While studying for the bar exam and recording her debut hit album, she also
won the Nobel Prize for her groundbreaking invention of calorie-free wine. When
she isn’t conquering the seas in her yacht or flying her Gulfstream, she likes
to spin elaborate webs of lies and has even documented a few of these said
falsehoods.
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