Title: A Girl By Any Other Name
Author: MK Schiller
Publisher: Totally Bound
Genre: Romantic suspense
Publication
Date: 12th January
2014
Hosted by: Luscious Laylah Release Day
Synopsis:
Everyone
tells him he needs to move on, but how can a man function without his heart?
Ten-year-old
Caleb Tanner wants nothing to do with Sylvie Cranston, the annoying weird girl
who moves next door to him and gets him in trouble for swearing. But at twelve,
they become friends when he teaches her how to hook a fishing line and she
shows him the value of a selfless act. At fourteen, he falls in love with her.
At
sixteen, she dies.
Or
so he’s told. But Cal never believes it. Sylvie has become part of his soul. He
knows her like the steady beating of his own heart. He’d know if she was dead.
Cal looks for her, prays for her and finally he just waits for her.
Nine
years later, she walks into the community college English class Cal is
teaching. Only this girl claims her name is Sophie Becker and she doesn’t know
him. Cal knows better. He’s determined to get the girl he loves back—and
protect her from the danger that took her away all those years ago.
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Excerpt:
“What are you doing here?” she asked,
blinking rapidly.
I took a deep breath, telling myself to
calm the fuck down. “I wanted to dance.”
“Why didn’t you stay at the dance
then?” she asked, with a weak smile.
“The girl I wanted to dance with wasn’t
there.” I walked over to her and held out my hand. “She’s here.”
Sylvie stared at my hand for a minute,
biting her lower lip nervously. She finally took it with measured hesitation,
but I grasped it tightly and pulled her up.
“We don’t have any music.”
I chuckled. “I’m your Huckleberry,” I
replied, taking out my cell phone.
“Is that new?”
“Yeah,
it’s cool. I can download music on it.” I scrolled through the selections until
I found the song I was looking for. Brown-Eyed Girl started playing. I’d
downloaded it because it reminded me of her. “You like Van Morrison, right? You
were listening to them the first day I met you.”
“You remember that?”
I slipped the phone into my pocket. “I
remember everything.” She slid her arms around my neck and I grasped her waist.
It wasn’t the slowest song, but we danced to it as if it was. I held her in my
arms as tightly as I could, knowing this was where I belonged. I loved her and
although she’d never said, I knew she loved me too.
“You smell good,” she commented, her
body relaxing as we shuffled to the music.
“You smell like dead fish,” I replied.
This elicited a hearty laugh from her.
Sylvie always got my weird sense of humour. I was kidding, though—she smelt
fine. Actually, she smelt divine.
“Cal, I’m sorry,” she said. “I wish
things were simpler. I wish—”
“Shush, girl, I’m trying to dance with
you. Just stop talking and let me hold you.”
She
did and when the dance was over, she surprised me by putting a hand on each
side of my face and pulling me towards her. It was a passionate kiss,
open-mouthed with our tongues exploring hungrily. Her lips were soft, and she
smelt of mint and strawberry. I breathed her in, tasting her scent. I let my
hands travel up her back and felt my dick grow hard when she pressed her body
closer to mine. There we were, two figures against the pale Prairie Marsh
moonlight, me in my Sunday suit and her in her fishing outfit, but it didn’t
matter what we were wearing or where we’d come from. We belonged with each
other. To each other.
Author Bio – MK Schiller
I am a hopeless romantic in a hopelessly
pragmatic world. I have a full time life and two busy teenagers, but by night,
I sit by the warm glow of my computer monitor, and attempt to conjure up
passionate heartwarming stories with plenty of humor.
I started imagining stories in my head at a
very young age. In fact, I got so good at it that my best friend asked me to
make up stories featuring her as the heroine and the boy she currently liked as
the hero. We'd spend hours on the phone while I came up with a series of
unrealistic, yet tender events led the object of her desire to finally profess
his love. You've heard of fan fiction... this was friend fiction.
Even with that, it took many years to
realize I could produce an actual full length book that readers would enjoy. I
try to make my stories humorous, realistic, with characters who are flawed but
redeeming. I hope you enjoy my stories and never stop searching for your
happily ever after.
Author
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Also by MK Schiller:
The
Other C-Word:
The
Do-Over:
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