BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY Searching For Moore by Julie A. Richman
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Book Blurb:
Attended by reality TV star wannabes
and Southern California social climbers, Schooner Moore knows the party his
wife is throwing for his forty-third birthday has little to do with him and
everything to do with her social standing in Orange County. The evening turns
out to hold more surprises than just his wife's Botoxed friends groping at his
privates, when a conversation with his old college roommate, Beau, reveals the
biggest surprise of the night.
Beau has had contact on Facebook
with Mia Silver. Just hearing her name sends Schooner into a tailspin, as he is
now just a Friend Request away from the one who got away when she disappeared
without a goodbye, leaving him wondering why she left.
A serial failure at romance,
Manhattan boutique ad agency owner, Mia, gets a blindside of her own when a
Facebook Friend Request from first love, Schooner, appears in her email. Going with
her gut reaction, Mia hits accept, propelling her past to catch up with her in
a New York minute, as a forceful Schooner is determined to understand what tore
them apart and to explore the possibility of a second chance at love.
From a 1980's Southern California
college campus and a devastating first love to present day New York City,
Searching for Moore explores how technology has eradicated the divide between
our past and our present, and asks whether you would give up everything to
reconnect with The One in a single keystroke?
Searching
for Moore
Book 1/Chapter 1 - Holly Moore's POV
Through the glass wall overlooking the restaurant's deck,
she watched him. He didn't know she was
on the other side watching. Her heart
splintered as she observed him standing on the deserted deck alone, staring out
onto the night harbor, while on the other side of the glass a lively, packed
party was in full swing. His 43rd
birthday party. He clearly didn't want
to be there. And with the top shelf free booze flowing and the waiters passing
hors d'oeuvres, no one even realized he was missing. Missing from his own
party.
She loved him so much and seeing him so disconnected from
his own world disturbed her deeply. But
although this world was his world - it wasn't him. She knew that and she ached
for him.
She surveyed the room.
It looked like a post-plastic surgery convention. Tight wind-swept
looking faces, straight noses, unnaturally full lips (and breasts), hair
extensions galore. Their dresses were
all so tight and yet, there was not an ounce of fat anywhere on any of them. How had Tom Wolfe described them,
"starved to near perfection."[1] Well, these women were suctioned to near
perfection.
Her mother was holding court. She appeared totally oblivious to her father's
absence from his own party. Surrounding
her were women (and men) who wanted to be as beautiful as she was, as
successful as her father was - but not once did any of these people question
happiness. It didn't matter. It didn't fit into their equation. If they'd only looked closely enough, they
would have seen that her parents, Schooner & CJ Moore, were not happy. And that her father, the birthday boy, was in
fact so miserable that he couldn't stomach being at his own party.
Holly Moore watched as her dad's friend, Beau Gordon,
made his way out to where her dad was on the deck, heartily slapping him on the
shoulder. Her father actually looked
happy to see Beau and they quickly became engrossed in conversation. Holly moved away from the window, satisfied
that he was ok now that Beau was with him. He was no longer all alone.
As she moved through the party, feeling invisible, Holly
yearned to get back to Providence and to her friends and her boyfriend at Brown
University. If she'd ever doubted her
move to Rhode Island, tonight re-enforced that she was her father's daughter
through and through, and that she no longer belonged here in Newport Beach,
anymore than he did.
Bio
Author
Julie A. Richman is a native New Yorker living deep in the heart of Texas. A creative writing major in college, reading
and writing fiction has always been a passion.
Julie began her corporate career in publishing in NYC and writing played
a major role throughout her career as she created and wrote marketing,
advertising, direct mail and fundraising materials for Fortune 500
corporations, advertising agencies and non-profit organizations. She is an award winning nature photographer
plagued with insatiable wanderlust.
Julie and her husband have one son and a white German Shepherd named
Juneau.
Julie on the Web:
Twitter: @juliearichman
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