Synopsis
Guilt can eat away at you, but love can cut like a knife…
Wanting after his best friend’s girlfriend is a cliché Billy
knows well – it’s the tightrope he’s walked for years.
But now Jason and Lindy have broken up and Billy can’t help
but be there for the girl he’s loved from afar for so long. She’s hurting.
Fighting to find a road to the future, Lindy’s heart hurts.
She’s trying to escape the truth, but Billy keeps making her face it – and it’s
ugly. How can she keep living when everything is made of glass and it keeps
shattering?
Her one constant is Billy. Only, rebound isn’t his style and
when Lindy starts to see him in a different light, he just can’t trust her.
He’s no one’s second best.
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Excerpt
A figure, a woman, sat slumped forward a little on the
steps. “Shit! Jason! There’s someone over there!” I looked left and right,
checking the street was clear, then crossed.
“Shit.” Jason ran past me. “It’s Lindy!” His ex-fiancée, my
ex one-night-stand, and the reason we’d not spoken for months.
Her head came up and her body swayed. She looked sick.
Pity, need and anger kicked my gut. I loved and hated her.
The bracelet on my wrist felt like it tightened, like a rope
pulling me in her direction, with an urgency that pissed me off. I’d done
enough chasing, but my stupid fucked-up heart refused to let her go.
Jason squatted down next to her, his hand on her shoulder.
“Lind, are you okay?”
She wasn’t. She was wasted. She’d had more to drink than
either of us. Her head rolled on her shoulders.
She turned away from Jason, gripped the step with her hands,
and threw up.
Attractive.
She and I had fallen out partly ‘cause of her drinking.
She’d stopped being herself.
She retched. Jason rubbed her back.
I stood there with my hands in my pockets, watching, like
I’d always done. The leopard I’d had inked on my chest sank its claws of
jealousy into my skin.
I still craved her. I hadn’t spoken to her in months, but I
still craved her. My best friend’s girl had been my secret addiction for years.
“Lind, is someone coming to meet you? Have you got a ride
home?”
When she stopped retching, she took a breath, wiped her
mouth on her sleeve then glared at Jason. “Just fucking leave me alone! Don’t
touch me!” That was the other reason she and I had parted ways, as friends.
We’d never really been anything else, but finally I’d given up on even that
option––because when Jason had finished with her, he’d opened up her vicious
streak. It could hit at anyone, anytime.
Jason lifted his hands, stood up and stepped back. “Okay.
I’m not touching you. But you need to get home, and you’re in no state to get
there.”
I stepped forward, my hands slipping out of my pockets.
“Lindy, it’s Billy…” I touched her shoulder, but her arm swiped out to knock me
away. “Get off me, you’re no better. Just leave me alone!” That wasn’t an
option.
I squatted down.
“I’ll call her dad,” Jason pulled his cell out of his
pocket.
Great, her dad; a cop was not gonna be thrilled. This didn’t
look good.
“We’re gonna help you. Jason’s calling your dad.”
Her gaze turned to me but she was too drunk to focus. “Don’t
call him.”
I saw the cogs of thought shifting in her eyes as she
realized I was with Jason. “We haven’t got a choice, we’ve been drinking, we
can’t take you home.”
Her face screwed up. “Why?” She pointed at Jason, who talked
into his cell a few feet away.
About the Author
Jane is a writer of authentic, passionate and emotional
Historical and New Adult romance and author of a No.1 bestselling Historical
Novel,'The Illicit Love of a Courtesan, as well as a Kindle overall Top 25,
bestselling author.
She began her first historical novel at sixteen, but a life
full of adversity derailed her as she lives with the restrictions of Ankylosing
Spondylitis.
When she finally completed a novel it was because she was
determined not to reach forty still saying, I want to write.
Now Jane is writing a Regency series as well as contemporary,
new adult, stories and she is thrilled to be giving her characters life in
others' imaginations at last.
You might think that Jane was inspired to write by Jane
Austen, especially as she lives near Bath in the United Kingdom, but you would
be wrong. Jane's favourite author is Anya Seton, and the book which drew her
into the bliss of falling into historical imagination was 'Katherine' a story
crafted from reality.
Jane has drawn on this inspiration to discover other
real-life love stories, reading memoirs and letters to capture elements of the
past, and she uses these to create more realistic plots.
'Basically I love history and I am sucker for a love story.
I love the feeling of falling in love; it's wonderful being able to do it time
and time again in fiction.'
Jane is also a Chartered Member of the Institute of
Personnel and Development in the United Kingdom, and uses this specialist
understanding of people to bring her characters to life.
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