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Title: Without Benefits
Author: Nicole Tone
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Day Date: 7/7/16
About Without Benefits:
Emma will always be a New Yorker at heart, even though she has a perfect life in Seattle. She has a prestigious job fundraising for the Seattle Symphony, a handsome boyfriend who adores her, and a Belltown apartment with views of the Sound. It should be more than enough to keep her pain from not playing the piano, and her 9/11 nightmares, away.
But when her old college crush, Owen, comes back into her life, itβs more than just spending time with him thatβs causing cracks in her picture-perfect life. As she steps back on stage, and back into the spotlight, her connection with Owen and his world, dredges up old memories that Emma worked hard to forget.
Emmaβs past comes back to haunt her, forcing her to face the truth about more than just her fears of returning back to New York. As her once perfect life begins to burn down, Emma is forced to figure out what she really wants: her fundraiser and cocktail party-filled life with her boyfriend, or forging a new future with the one thing, and one person, sheβs ever lovedβeven if it means returning to New York.
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Exclusive Excerpt:
The piece of sheet music had sat untouched for a decade, tucked away in other sheet music, left at the bottom of a box. It was poor timing, finding it now. Really poor.
Emmaβs friends would say it was fate. Her mom and sister would say that she should sort through her things more often. Emma had to agree with her family on this one.
Her thirtieth birthday coming and going sparked a nesting spree of sorts. This had to be the only reason behind finding it. Starting in the front room of their apartment and working her way back, she went through everything: cleaned off bookshelves, cleaned out closets, dusted, touched up, changed out artwork. There were some thingsβlike the pile of sheet music that now sat on her kitchen table, the piece of sheet music that she couldnβt stop staring atβshe wasnβt sure sheβd be able to part with.
This binder of hand-written music, work, the e-mail, and the wedding coming upβshe just couldnβt escape Owen any longer. The longer time went on, the harder it was getting. Wasnβt it supposed to be the other way around? It shouldβve been easier by now. But it wasnβt, and thatβs why she had an e-mail drafted. Well, sort ofβit was blank still, but at least it was open.
βI donβt even know what to say to you,β Emma said out loud, reading over Owenβs latest e-mail. It had landed in her mailbox a week ago with an invitation to dinner and she still hadnβt given him an answer.
She closed doors on everything in her past, always. Sheβd left New York, and the empty spaces in the skyline, and didnβt look back. She couldnβtβit hurt too much. Emma never spoke to ex-boyfriends after the relationship expired. But Owen wasnβt an ex. Maybe it was best to rip the Band-Aid off now, privately, instead of in front of at the engagement party in front of all of their college friends.
She typed up a quick, one line response: Dinner tonight?
Hitting send, excitement and guilt crushed her. She hadnβt even considered her boyfriend and his feelings into the equation.
About the Author:
Nicole Tone is a freelance editor, MFA student, traveller, pet collector, binge-watcher, and a self-proclaimed coffee snob. She lives in Buffalo, NY with her husband, three cats, and two very large dogs. She cheats on Buffalo with Seattle as often as she can.
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