Title: Wrecked (A Starstruck Novella)
Author: Cynthia Valero
Genre: New Adult
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Synopsis
Welcome to STARSTRUCK, a showplace for talent, a playground for love.
A new contemporary continuity series by Beth Ciotta, Cynthia Valero, and Elle J Rossi. Three authors. One world. The hot nights continue with Valeroβs emotional new-adult novella, Wrecked.A Secret Crushβ¦
Talented songwriter, Sunny Burnett, shelves her dream of Nashville when her older sister is killed in a car wreck and helps her mother pick up the pieces of her shattered life. Two years later, her motherβs still struggling and Sunny is desperate to help her. Dusting off her guitar, penning a new song, and marshaling her courage, she enters a duet contest, hoping to use the prize money to turn her mother’s life around. Sheβll do anything to win. Even if it means partnering with the last man she should askβher sisterβs ex-boyfriend, a gifted singer and Sunnyβs longtime secret crush.A Clandestine Choiceβ¦
Curtis Bliss blames himself for Tuesday Burnettβs death. And so does her family. Haunted by regret, he forfeits his musical dreams for years, until heβs challenged by an unexpected sourceβhis exβs younger sister. Sunny Burnett blows him away by asking for his help and, in turn, offering him a tentative forgiveness. Even more surprising is the burning attraction that ignites and consumes them both.Can the new lovers make their dreams come true after all? Or will the secrets they keep wreck them forever?
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Excerpt
βIβd give you anything else, Sunny. Anything in my power. Iβd cut my heart out and hand it to you, whatβs left of it, if thatβs what you wanted. But I canβt sing, and I especially canβt sing on that stage.β
βItβs not for me. Itβd take more than that for me to ask you for anything.β She gripped her handbag again, almost like a lifeline. βItβs for my mother.β
Krista. His gut twisted tighter. Her house had been like a home for him. Sheβd been the mother heβd lost at fifteen. The last time heβd ever felt taken care of. The last time heβd eaten a home-cooked meal. And heβd appreciated her caring way more than she could ever know. He hadnβt exactly paid her back in the way heβd planned.
βItβs been a year and sheβs not getting better.β Sunny smacked the hat again. βI need that prize money to start a cafe. I think it might bring her back to life. It has to.β
His mouth worked, but he couldnβt shove out any words.
βYou want to give us something? You want to give us that last little piece of your heart? Give us this.β
He almost asked when sheβd grown so fierce, but he knew the answer. He also knew he couldnβt say no, even as he wanted to run fast and far away.
βYouβre so grown up.β The whisper slipped out.
βTuesdayβsΒ death didnβt stop my bones from growing.β
He noticed her long legs, her graceful neck, the gentle arch of her back. He noticed the way her hip jutted when she planted her hand on it. She reminded him of a warrior queen braced for battle. She was braced for him to say no. She was braced to launch another attack to change his mind, to remind him why he would indeed do her bidding.
And, to his absolute disbelief, his fingers left the hand truck and reached out to touch a lock of her hair.
It was as silky-soft as he remembered.
He curled it around his index finger, and she closed her eyes. Her chest rose and fell with sudden, labored breaths. He felt himself slipping under a strange, dangerous spell.
She smacked away his hand. Her eyes glinted again. βIβm notΒ Tuesday.β
βNo, youβre not,β he said and her cheeks flushed red. βIβll sing on that stage with you just this once, Sunny. When youβre contest is done, so am I.β
About The Author
Cynthia Valero is an award-winning author of two solo novellas as well as three paranormal romance novels and two anthologies written with Beth Ciotta as CB Scott. Her newest novella, Wrecked, is an emotional, new-adult tale in the new contemporary continuity series, STARSTRUCK, which also includes Beth Ciotta and Elle J Rossi. A student of Natalie Goldberg, Zoetrope All-Story, and The Writers Studio, Cynthia is currently writing a fantasy novel of forbidden love and deadly feuds set off the coast of early America.
Cynthia lives in the northeastern United States, is a student of kung fu and history, and believes that the rumble of a classic hot rod is music. Her family will tell you that she is a grudging cook but a great reader of bedtime stories.
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