Keren is such a doll and I adore her, I cannot wait to read her debut novel Stolen! I am so proud!
Roshanna O'Dare had the perfect
life. Everything was as it should be until the day she wakes to finds her
parents murdered in their own home.
Roshanna doesn't have any other family in Cypress Hill so she has to leave her
best friend Marissa behind to move in with her last living relative, Uncle Joe,
who lives in Texas, Austin. It’s where she meets Bodhi, her uncle’s chauffeur
and a kind loving man who understands her and helps her through her parents
deaths.
Before moving away, Roshanna is confronted with a shocking secret that Marissa
has kept from her—a secret that changes how Shanna sees life and the people in
it. A secret about Roshanna’s parent that makes her take a journey to free them
from the fate they’re in.
Will she succeed? And will she find love along the way?
My gift to you all an excerpt! Enjoy!
Excerpt
1
“Bodhi, what we have is special to me. We
have a sort of connection that for the life of me I cannot explain. I’ve told
you before how your touch feels like a sort of gravity. As for your kisses,
they give me butterflies in my tummy like you wouldn’t believe. When we’re
alone together, I don’t think about anything except for us. I… care about you.”
I faltered those last 3 words. It had come to feel like more than just caring
about him, but I wasn’t willing to admit that yet.
“Wow. You really do care about me? I had
hoped you did and what we had wasn’t just a bit of fun while you were figuring
out where your head was at. I feel the same, you know?! When you kiss me, it
sends shivers down my spine and when you touch me, it’s electric. I feel alive.
Not just living but truly alive.” he confessed.
I looked at him and saw the smile on his
face as he spoke. We had time to figure out exactly what we had, but for now, I
knew he cared for me as much as I cared for him. That thought made me smile
inside and out.
We got home and as we stepped out of the
car, Bodhi took my hand and led me to the pergoda where we lay on the floor
with the blanket underneath us. We lay encircled in each other’s arms and Bodhi
kept trailing light kisses from my lips, to my jaw, to my arm.
As he came back up to my lips, I kissed him
with such fervour. He drew me closer to him and the kiss deepened into
something I had never felt before.
I couldn’t admit it to Bodhi but if I was
falling in love with him, if this was what love felt like, I was happy to be
feeling something so special for such a great guy. Not only was he hot as all
Hell to look at, he was an amazing person underneath the surface too. If this
really was love, then so be it.
Author
Bio
Keren lives in the UK and is an avid
bookworm; she has been since she read things like Black Beauty, What Katy Did
and The Hobbit as a child. Her first real memories of reading are the summers
she used to lie on her bed and re-read What Katy Did and What Katy Did Next.
Over the years she has come to realise that
she is a bit OCD about books. They have to be in perfect condition without the
slightest bit of damage.
She is a book reviewer and has been for the
past 18 months or so.
The idea for Stolen came to her one day but
she never thought she’d actually write it let alone publish it. If it wasn’t
for her author friend Kira Saito, the idea would still be stuck in her head not
on paper. But constant love and support from Kira is why you are now able to read
Stolen.
Stolen is her first novel but now that
she’s written one, she knows she needs to write more. There will be one sequel,
called Freed which will be from Bodhi’s POV. This will be set a couple of years
on.
Then, the plan is for her to write either
NA or Adult Contemporary Romances. She has a big crush on Lady Antebellum’s
music at the moment and their songs have inspired a few book ideas.
Keren loves hearing from her readers and if
you want to contact her, you can do so at any of the following places:
Twitter: @Gothic_Angel28
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