Cover Reveal: Beautiful Ruin by Alison Foster
TITLE:
BEAUTIFUL RUIN by Alison Foster
GENRE:
New Adult Contemporary Romance
RELEASE
DATE: September
19, 2014
SYNOPSIS:
Grace
Kendall knows what it’s like to have life knock you on your butt.
She’s been through hell and made it back. She’s fine with
trusting no one and expecting nothing until a night wind blows
something quite unexpected onto her doorstep in the rain.
The
scruffy, yet gorgeous enigma known as Nathan Henley steps inside her
apartment and brings with him all those feelings Grace has tried so
hard to tuck safely away. Beneath his bruised and damaged exterior,
she senses all the dark and beautiful secrets lost within the
tarnished diamond of his lonely heart.
Like
everyone before him, he must be too good to be true. She resists his
mystery as long as she can, but she knows that any woman would gladly
throw themselves against his rock hard chest and shatter helplessly
into a million lustful pieces.
When
Grace finally decides to trust again, her ex-boyfriend Jack returns
to her life with his crooked grin and the past comes crashing down.
With the world spinning all around her, Grace must do more than
trust, she must fight for the salvation of her own lonely heart.
*Content
Warning: this book contains explicit language and sex. Mature readers
only.*
The
expected publication date is September 19th, 2014, on all of
your favorite e-book websites.
EXCERPT:
Nate
nods. His hand squeezes mine softly as he stares into my eyes. “I
don’t know anything about your life,” he says.
“There’s
a good reason for that,” I try to joke. “It’s totally boring
and uninteresting. Lame, as you put it last night.”
“Hey,
I didn’t say lame, I said pathetic. There’s a difference.”
“Well,
thank you. That makes me feel so much better. Promoted from lame to
pathetic. Awesome.”
“You’re
welcome, but are we sure it’s a promotion?”
“You’re
so not cool,” I say. It’s probably ironic, but I feel relaxed for
the first time in a long time. A time that I’d rather not
reminisce. “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I don’t know
anything about your life, either, Nate.”
I’ve
barely finished my sentence when he leans in and plants a kiss on my
lips. My relaxation vanishes. The shock paralyzes my mind. I don’t
know why, but I let him kiss my lips softly for as long as he likes.
His bruised cheek brushes against mine but his soft stubble doesn’t
bother me.
The
smell of fresh soap blends with the musk scent of his muscular body.
I’m doing my best to control myself and not reach under his shirt
to feel that six pack of his, but as he pushes his tongue in my
mouth, I gently pull away.
“Nate,
we’re in a library,” I remind him.
“So,
you’re not mad?” he says, relieved somehow.
“I’m
not sure what I am. It’s just inappropriate.”
“Did
it feel inappropriate?” he says.
I
don’t answer. I just stare at him in a way that lets him know I’m
done answering his questions. I’m not ready to embark on anything
new and I don’t want to lie about loving the way he kissed me. I’m
in charge.
He
reads my thoughts. “Hey, it doesn’t have to be complicated,” he
says. “Let’s have dinner while going over our notes and creating
our leaflets.”
I
nod, grateful for his quick thinking and his generous effort to make
things easy and simple. “That works,” I agree.
“I
have some shopping to do,” he says as he gets up. “I’ll meet
you in an hour back at your place.”
“Make
that an hour and a half,” I say, refusing to sacrifice the precious
bubble bath I’ve had in mind since leaving work.
He
walks away and my heart is still racing. I find myself standing on
the sidewalk outside the library not sure how I got here.
Disorientation and wonderment course through my body making me light
headed.
When
my mind starts working again, it hungers labels for what just
happened. Love at first sight or spontaneous lust or the desire to
disappear from everything. Strangely, it felt safe and trustworthy.
It felt like it should have happened and so I allowed it.
For
the first time since Jack, my heart pounds out of control with
electric curiosity. I didn’t know if that would ever happen again.
I think of something I read recently, a Japanese saying: If
it’s good, hurry.
AUTHOR
BIO:
Alison Foster loves reading a good love story almost as much
as she loves writing one. She spends her time dreaming up strong
heroes and even stronger heroines and she enjoys finding unexpected
strengths within her characters when they are in the most
unexpected places.
She
believes that passion makes the world go round and that a sexy grin
is as sweet as candy. She loves interacting with readers, so feel
free to drop her a line.
LINKS:
TWITTER https://twitter.com/alisonsreads
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