Release Blitz: Declan Reede: The Untold Story by Michelle Irwin
Title: Declan Reede: The Untold
Story
The Complete Series
Author: Michelle Irwin
Genre: New Adult/Sports/Second
Chance Romance
Release Date: August 12,
2016
As high school sweethearts, Declan
Reede and Alyssa Dawson didn’t always see eye-to-eye. Especially
when it came to his dream of being a driver in the ProV8 series. When
he’s offered the chance at the career of his dreams, Declan straps
himself in for the ride regardless of the cost.
Older,
but not wiser, Declan is on the path to becoming a racing legend.
Only, regret haunts him around the track and threatens to send him
off-course. When a chance encounter offers the opportunity to correct
his mistakes, Declan must learn to manage the curves if he wants to
claim the ultimate prize.
Experience Declan’s complete
story. Includes the RONE-nominated novella “Decide” and an
exclusive bonus novella “Decode”.
My list of things I needed to do before
I left grew with every passing second. I realised I would definitely
need my passport, so I’d have to hunt it down. The last time I’d
used it was the team trip to Bahrain, but the trip back home had been
a bit of a blur and I struggled to remember where I’d put my
passport after that. I ran downstairs to check in the study, and saw
my passport on the desk next to my old answering machine. The sight
made me pause.
It was a relic of the days when I’d
first moved to Sydney and was no longer used. It wasn’t even
plugged in to the phone line anymore. All it was good for now was
storage. With everything running circles through my head, it would be
dangerous to listen to a single message, but I couldn’t help
myself.
With a deep breath that hurt like a
motherfucker, I steeled myself and pushed play.
“Hey, Dec. I hope you don’t mind
your mum giving me this number, but I need to talk to you. Call me.
Please?” Alyssa’s voice filled the room. Even though she
started strong, her words were teary at the end, especially as she
added her quiet plea. The recording wasn’t the first time she’d
tried to call—I didn’t have those early ones. Instead, it was
from after I’d first moved into something slightly more permanent
than Morgan’s spare bedroom, a little over a month after I’d
arrived in Sydney. I didn’t know why I kept it, but I just couldn’t
bring myself to delete it.
I frowned as my finger hovered over the
delete button. She’d moved on anyway, why should I keep her old
messages? Before I had a chance to act, the next message started.
“Dec, please. I need you to call
me.” Her tone was harsher, but still filled with sorrow and
the weight of expectation. “What happened to you always being
my friend? To you always having my back? I need—” The
message cut off as I yanked the machine off the desk, pulling the
plug on the power with the movement. With Alyssa’s tear-filled
voice echoing in my ears, I hurled the answering machine across the
room, turning away before it smashed against the wall. She’d moved
on from that—moved on to smiles and races with another man.
“Fuck you, Alyssa,” I said to the
empty house.
Maybe I didn’t have her to keep me
company, but I had something better: I had my wet bar. Screw the
doctors and their no alcohol with the pain medication rules.
Michelle Irwin has been many things in
her life: a hobbit taking a precious item to a fiery mountain; a
young child stepping through the back of a wardrobe into another
land; the last human stranded not-quite-alone in space three million
years in the future; a young girl willing to fight for the love of a
vampire; and a time-travelling madman in a box. She achieved all of
these feats and many more through her voracious reading habit.
Eventually, so much reading had to have an effect and the cast of
characters inside her mind took over and spilled out onto the page.
Michelle lives in sunny Queensland
in the land down under with her surprisingly patient husband and
ever-intriguing daughter, carving out precious moments of writing and
reading time around her accounts-based day job. A lover of love and
overcoming the odds, she primarily writes paranormal and fantasy
romance.
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