Book Alert: Forget Me Not and Lily of the Valley (Flowering, #1.5) by Sarah Daltry
Title:
Forget Me Not
Forget Me Not
Author:
Sarah Daltry
Cover Design:
Shoutlines Design
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Blurb:
18+
New Adult contemporary romance with explicit sexual content
This
isn't a sweet and innocent coming of age story. If dirty talk,
bedroom toys, and threesomes offend you... this is not your book.
There are also no billionaires, strippers, or virgins. This is just
the story of typical college kids trying to connect to each other.
"No
one tells you when you start school just how homesick you will be, or
how hard it will be to start life over with no direction and no
friends or family. No one says that becoming your own person is
terrifying."
Lily had a crush on her brother's best friend, Derek, for years - which led to their steamy night ten months ago in her bedroom. Now, she's off to college and she and Derek are still going strong. However, when school starts, Lily realizes it's hard to maintain a relationship, while also trying to live her own life. She and Derek find themselves falling apart and she has no idea where to turn.
Enter Jack. Everything about him is wrong for Lily and she knows it, but she can't stop herself from being attracted to him. When things implode with Derek, it's Jack who's there to pick up the pieces - and to show Lily an entirely new set of experiences she didn't know she was missing.
Of
course, Jack has his own problems and once Lily gets to know him
better, she starts to wonder if she can handle all of Jack.
When Derek reappears on the scene, Lily is forced to decide between two guys and herself. Can she find herself without losing the people who matter in the process?
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Excerpt:
He moves closer and already my body is responding. He smells like cigarettes and leather, two smells I never thought were sexy until now. I want to fall into his body, to be wrapped in his arms, and I fight it. It’s wrong and it makes no sense. I have everything I could ever want. Jack is just a distraction.
“I’m
not that kind of girl,” I tell him.
He
steps closer still and kisses my neck. His lips are soft, which is
unexpected, and it sends a shiver through me. Jack brings me in to
his chest. I can feel his heart beating; it’s quickening and it
matches mine. I feel his tongue sliding down along my collarbone.
There is nothing like this, but I need him to stop. And yet, I never
want him to stop. “I’d love to know exactly what kind of girl you
are.”
Almost
as if they are not my own, my hands slip between his jacket and his
shirt. The heat of his skin burns me even through the fabric of his
clothes. His lips continue to travel downward, but as they reach the
curve of my breasts, something in me wakes up. I tear myself away
from him and back up a few inches.
“I
have a boyfriend,” I repeat. “I can’t do this.”
“Where
is he?” Jack asks. His eyes are burning.
“What?”
“Where
is your boyfriend? You’ve mentioned him before, but you run into me
a lot for someone who’s so in love.”
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Title:
Lily
of the Valley (Flowering, #1.5)
Author:
Sarah Daltry
Cover
Design:
Shoutlines Design
Release
Date: 9/25/2013
Blurb:
18+
New Adult contemporary romance for explicit sexual content
This
isn't a sweet and innocent coming of age story. If dirty talk,
bedroom toys, and threesomes offend you... this is not your book.
There are also no billionaires, strippers, or virgins. This is just
the story of typical college kids trying to connect to each other.
"No
one tells you about pain. They tell you that it hurts, that sometimes
it's consuming. What they don't tell you is that it's not the pain
that can kill you. It's the uncomfortable numbness that follows, the
weakness in your body when you realize your lungs may stop taking in
air and you just can't exert enough energy to care. It's the way
taste and color and smell fade from the world and all you're left
with is a sepia print of misery. That's when the shift starts - the
movement from passive to active. I fall asleep, hoping that the
morning will bring back the pain. At least the pain is a thing."
Plagued by a dark past, Jack sees college as a way out. Desperate to escape the area where he grew up, the people who know his secrets, and his own family, he deals with his problems through alcohol and meaningless sex.
When he first sees Lily, she's the epitome of everything he hates. Yet something about her makes Jack rethink everything he knows and assumes about other people. Now, with the help of his best friend and lover, Jack has to decide if he wants to pursue something that he knows will only end badly.
Can Lily be one of the few people who can see Jack for who he really is - or will his darkness be too much for her to handle?
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Excerpt:
At
work, though, the people are real. Both the customers and the staff.
During the busy times, we get more douchebags, mostly my classmates
who probably should be in the library and not eating a hangover away.
Mal is also on this morning. He’s a recovering alcoholic, a total
asshole to nearly everyone, and an incredibly shitty employee in a
lot of ways. But the dude can cook and when I walk in a couple
minutes late with no explanation, Mal just shrugs and hands me an
order.
“Big
parties last night?”
“Huge
party. I spent the night reading Dostoevsky.”
“He
a scientist?” Mal flips over the largest slab of ham I have ever
seen. For all the sort of dive element of this place, the food is
still fucking great.
“Yeah,
something like that.”
“Eh.
Never cared for all that mumbo jumbo. Don’t know any of it and I’m
doing just fine.”
That’s
something else I admire about Mal. By no one’s standards is he
doing just fine. He has a tendency to fall off the wagon as soon as
he approaches his ten month anniversary – which he has been doing
for likely longer than I have been alive. He’s been married and
divorced five times. He has three kids who don’t speak to him.
Finally, he only eats the food from the café and he lives in a motel
out by the prison. Oh – and he works as a short order cook in a
shitty café. But in his mind, life is just fine. Sometimes, I think
I need to get a hold of whatever it is that keeps him from losing his
shit.
We
settle into our routine, since there is little Mal and I can talk
about. I can’t discuss Raskolnikov’s character traits and Mal
simply has nothing to say. So we cook in silence, but it’s
comfortable. After everything I have been through, I feel a strange
affinity for this place. Even thinking about leaving when I
eventually get the hell out of town makes me a little sad. I hate
that it makes me sad. I want to leave with no connections, with no
strings.
I
go to stick an order on the counter for Liz when I see her.
Strawberries. She’s with some dude, who is basically what I
pictured when she mentioned her boyfriend. Broad, tan, blond, and
eating like a fucking pig. I don’t know what they’re talking
about and I can’t see her face, but he loves her. It’s
immediately recognizable and I hate him for it. I don’t even know
why I hate him for it, since at least maybe he’s not as much of a
dick as I would have expected. If we had been placing bets, I would
have gone with the safe assumption he had something else on the side
to make up for having such a sweet and pure girlfriend. I wonder if
maybe she isn’t as innocent as she looks. The thought makes me
horny again. I don’t get what is so damn attractive about this
typical girl, but something makes me want to taste every inch of her
skin.
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About
The Author:
Sarah Daltry writes erotica and romance that ranges from sweet to steamy. She moves around a lot and has trouble committing to things. Forget Me Not is her second full length novel, although she also has several story collections and two novellas available. Her other novel, Bitter Fruits, was available shortly, but is now in the contract phase with a major publisher. When Sarah isn’t writing, she tends to waste a lot of time checking Facebook for pictures of cats, shooting virtual zombies, and simply staring out the window.
Author
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