Blog Tour & Giveaway for Southern Embrace By Tamaria Soana
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Southern
Embrace
By: Tamaria Soana
Genre(s): Erotic Contemporary
Romance
Digital ISBN: 9781937325602
Length: Short
Publication Date: April 15, 2013
Digital ISBN: 9781937325602
Length: Short
Publication Date: April 15, 2013
Blurb
Can a long lost love mend a grieving
heart?
Widowed at
twenty-three, Savannah Grant is devastated and consumed with grief, a grief
that she can't seem to move past. When her high school sweetheart, Lance
Peterson, re-enters her life, Savannah struggles with the feeling that she
would be betraying her deceased husband by moving on. Plus, she can't forget
the way Lance broke her heart all those years ago.
Lance never
stopped loving Savannah. He wants a second chance, and he's willing to do
anything it takes to convince her to give him one. Will she give in and let
Lance love her, showing her a passion beyond anything she thought possible?
Content
Warning: adult language, explicit sexual situations, anal play
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Excerpt:
It was a
beautiful Friday afternoon. Van grabbed her purse and headed out to the mall.
Nikki's shower was the following weekend, and Nikki had been on her to get a
new dress for days, threatening to drag her shopping kicking and screaming if
she didn't go herself.
Once at the
mall, Van picked up some last minute gifts for Nikki. After trying on a few
dresses, she found a knee-length, strapless coral dress. She purchased it and
was off in search of a pair of shoes. When she found the perfect pair of coral
and silver heels, Van concluded the trip to the mall a complete success.
Her
cellphone rang as she was leaving the shoe store. She dug around in her bag to
find it. With her head down and her steps brisk, she ran right into someone.
"I'm
so sorry. I'm such a klutz," she said as she looked up into the brown eyes
of her first love. She gasped and took a step back, surveying him. His light
brown hair was a little shorter and he was built like a man now, not the boy
she used to know. She stood frozen in place, staring at him. This can't be
happening. A tidal wave of emotions rushed through her at once. Anger,
resentment, hatred, but mainly pain…so much pain.
"Van."
"Lance?
Oh my God!" She took another step back. "How?"
"I-I
talked to Nikki. She told me you would be here. I needed to see you. When I
heard what happened…" He paused. "I knew I couldn't stay away any
longer. I'm so sorry."
The more he
talked, the more Van's anger flared. Who does he think he is? He left me!
Turned his back on me when he cut all ties!
"What
exactly are you sorry for, Lance? That my husband died or that you broke my
heart all those years ago?" The words she spoke were full of acid.
"You have a lot of nerve just showing up here like nothing ever happened.
Go away." She turned to leave.
"Please,
Van, just talk to me. Give me a chance to explain," he begged as he
reached for her hand.
"Don't
you dare touch me," she said through gritted teeth, yanking her hand away.
"What do you want from me?" She stared at him while plotting all the
ways she was going to torture Nikki for her betrayal.
She seethed
as he looked around. "Calm down, Van. People are starting to stare.
Please, can we go somewhere more private and talk? There is so much I need to
tell you."
"What
could you possibly have to say to me that would make up for what you did? I
mean, I know you had to move, but you cut all ties with me. Like the three
years we spent together meant nothing to you, like I meant nothing to you. Damn
you, Lance, you didn't even try to make it work."
"Please,
Savannah. Give me a chance to explain."
"Give
me one reason why I should."
"Because
I still love you. I. Never. Stopped. I cut all ties with you because I had to.
Long distance relationships never work out. I was afraid you would wake up one
day and resent me. Being apart from you was killing me. I thought this way we
would both be able to move on. But I was wrong, I never was able to move on. I
let the love I have for you consume me. I wanted to come back sooner, but then
I heard you'd gotten married. When I found out what had happened, I wanted to
rush here and be by your side, but I figured you would need some time."
His words
shocked and confused her. After she took a few moments to process everything,
she shook her head. "I can't do this." She turned and walked away,
then stopped. "Go back to wherever it was you came from and leave me
alone."
"I
won't give up on you. I won't stop trying, and I most definitely won't ever
leave you again."
"Just
go away, Lance. You're good at that," she snarled before she walked away.
She didn't dare turn around because looking at him as he begged her to give him
a chance to explain would certainly weaken her. Van needed to focus on how she
was going to kill her so-called best friend.
Author Info
Tamaria Soana is middle-aged but
feels like her life has just begun. She writes contemporary romance stories
with a high heat level that always end with a 'happily ever after'. Growing up,
she loved to read and make up new places in her head to escape to. In her late
teens she began writing short stories and poetry. It wasn't until her late
thirties before she began to spin a full story.
She's married and a stay-at-home mom
of two beautiful young girls. They reside in Western New York. Cuddling up with
a good book under an electric throw is her way to escape the cold Buffalo
nights.
Besides writing, she co-owns Shades of Rose Marketing and
Shades of Rose YA Marketing, and she also hosts a talk show on Talkshoe called
Live with Tamaria ~ Giving Authors a Voice.
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