Welcome to week 128th
week of My
Sexy Saturday. This
week’s theme is My Sexy
Valentine. I know that Valentine’s is a
totally invented holiday by the card companies but it is one I love all the
same. Unfortunately, I don’t have any Valentine stories at all and it makes me
sad. To me Valentine’s can be a lot of things: a new found lover, reclaiming an
old lover, and even love fulfilled. Needless to say, I do have a lot of ideas
on the subject.
Lots of
things I’m still doing. I’m hopeful that I’ll fulfill my deadline but there are
still many things I need to complete before I call that one done and off to my
agent. The move is progressing kinda as planned as that’s another area where
there are lots of things to be done. Yes, I’m working on stories that will be
released later in the year. A few of them had been scheduled the year my father
passed away and I couldn’t get back into them until now. The winner of last
month’s $25 Amazon gift certificate will be announced tomorrow. So please look
for it. I will give you all day today to comment, then I will pick one winner and post it here on Sunday. We’ll have one
final giveaway before I go to the States on February 23rd as that’s
when the computer gets taken away from me. So, don’t forget to comment on Monday’s
Austria Scoop and My So-Called Writing Life this week to get into the drawing
on February 23rd. Comment often!
This week’s story
was one that I meant to have out a few years ago. Unfortunately, my father
passed away that year and not a lot got done. Needless to say, it devestated me
in many ways and I wasn’t sure about writing or life at that time as it all
seemed so bleak. As they say, time heals all wounds and while I’ll always miss
him, he’d be kicking my butt if I ever stopped writing. So, I’m back at it and
trying to tie up loose ends and promised stories that I didn’t complete. Here’s
the setup for Worth The Wait:
Jenny Adams wasn’t a popular girl in high school. No one
understood the attraction star-running back Reese MacGyver had for her, least
of all Jenny. When it looked as if things were getting hot and heavy before
going away to college, Reese put on the brakes by soliciting a promise from her
that they would get together, if neither were taken, at their tenth high school
reunion. In a split-second decision and because of her love for him, Jenny puts
it all in, vowing to make good on a teenage wish.
But ten years is a long time to wait. While Jenny has
had relationships come and go, the promise always remains on her mind even when
Reese becomes the man of every woman’s dream. He’s been very busy with his life
and has become one of the richest men under thirty in decades. Jenny has done
good too but not nearly that good and she wonders if he’ll be a man of his word
as their tenth reunion looms.
And as the day draws ever closer, she wonders if it will
all be worth the wait…
Here’s my seven paragraphs from this amazing WIP:
Plopping down beside
her, he took her hand. “I know that we’ve been great friends and neither one of
us ever felt comfortable to take it further. At least not now.”
She swallowed hard
then. It wasn’t for her lack of trying. If he only knew just how much she had
wanted to jump him every time she saw him, she thought before she answered.
“Okay. I guess I agree with that.”
“Good. I want you to
promise me that if we are both unmarried at our tenth high school reunion,
we’ll get together. We’ll be twenty-eight and should know what we want by then.
Promise me?”
She could remember his
earnest look on his face as if he still sat beside her. She couldn’t bring
herself to remember any more because if she did, she would cry. The
conversation had been very serious and made her wonder just why she promised
him something about a future she doubted. Closing her eyes, she was jolted out
of her thoughts by the sound of something hitting the table. Slowly opening her
eyes, she licked her lips.
In the middle of the
table were a pair of jeans. Not just any jeans but the jeans she wore that last
day they’d been together. She remembered them well because she had put some
embellishments on them which at the time were seen by a lot of people as gaudy.
When she had gotten home that favorite pair of jeans wasn’t in her bag. She had
looked for them for days and finally had broken down by placing a call to Reese.
She was very disappointed to find that he had already left for college the day
before.
Looking up, she smiled. “I see you found my jeans.” He was more
handsome than ever with the same impish look in his eyes.
“I never lost them.” His deep voice rumbled through her again
touching her in ways that only he could.
I love this story and wasn’t
surprised to see that I only have a few more tweaks to do before it’s
completed. It will go off to my editor before I leave Vienna and hopefully, go
on presale at the end of March with it being widely available by April 15,
2016. And that’s a promise I plan to keep.
My traditional ePublisher, eXtasy
Books is still having a sale on the books listed below. You
can get a substantial savings and even some free things by just visiting their
website. Hope to see you there and don’t forget to pick up your copies today!
The
Thing About Elves ~ Book 2 in
the Santa’s Elves series
The
Haunting of Maggie Grey ~ Award-winning
Scottish Historical about a woman doctor
Captive
Illusions: Iain and Kelsey ~ Story about a woman’s darkest fantasy
Fluke ~ Book 1 of the Orchid series, sci-fi romance
An
Elf’s Desire ~ Book 3 in the
Santa’s Elves series
A
Love for Eggther ~ Book 3.5 in the Santa’s Elves series
Shopping
Spree ~ Story about a very special
dress shop
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See you all next week with
more My Sexy Saturday!
Lynn
