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It's
1977 - Star Wars is breaking records at the box office, Bruce Springsteen's
Born to Run tour is taking the country by storm, and born-and-bred Jersey girl Annalise
Keller has fallen in love for the first and last time. Hot and charismatic with
dreams of making it as a rock star, Keith "Ace" Foxx is everything a
teenage girl dreams of. He falls as hard for Anna as she does for him and the
two decide to run off to California in search of his big break. Fate has other
plans though, and several years and three kids later, Ace has traded in his
guitar for a job at the local post office and Anna has become a symbol of all
he has given up. Ace spends most nights at the local bar, trying to drink away
his anger and resentment.
Flash
forward a decade, and their youngest child, Jackson, is headed nowhere fast. In
a life filled with meaningless jobs and too much partying, music is his only
true escape from the pain of a childhood that abruptly ended one rainy night.
The accident had destroyed his family and left him with a slew of unanswered
questions.
Everything
changes the night Jackson meets Leah. Shy and reserved, she doesn't smoke and
barely drinks; she certainly doesn't put out. Not exactly the girl from the Bon
Jovi videos he watched as a kid. Yet, before he knows it, she has become his
world.
Then,
just when it looks like his dreams might come true, betrayal and loss once
again threaten everything he holds dear. As Jackson struggles to keep his world
from spinning out of control, he knows one thing for sure, the choices he makes
now will either be the start of a whole new life, or it just might be the end
of him.
Excerpt
It was Halloween the first time I
laid eyes on him. I’ll never forget it because Halloween had always been my
favorite holiday, maybe because for some reason I was allowed to run wild.
Things I’d never get away with were suddenly okay to do on Halloween. For
instance, staying out after dark or eating candy before dinner, dressing
inappropriately, and by inappropriately, I mean going out without a coat when
the weather dipped below fifty degrees. Things you think are cool when you’re
ten years old, which was how old I was that year. Most people may not clearly
remember their tenth Halloween, but I do and with very good reason, because it
was the day I fell in love. You might think it crazy for a fifth grader to
arrive home after a night of trick-or-treating and announce that she’s in love
and you probably wouldn’t be the only one, but that’s exactly what I did – and
I was totally serious.
It was dusk, and the air was
electric with excitement. It had been a lucrative afternoon and my three
friends and I had split up just long enough to empty our bags of candy, grab
something to eat, then regroup in an hour to hit the other side of town. Not
wanting to waste any time I decided to cut through the woods by my house,
something I didn’t usually do with darkness approaching. It was a fateful
decision that would end up altering the course of my life.
Author bio and links
Anne
Holster resides in Northern New Jersey with her husband and two children. When
she's not writing she enjoys spending time with her family, playing tennis and
reading angsty romance novels. She is currently working on her fourth book.
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