She ran away from the town that wouldn’t forget,
to a city that doesn’t forgive, right into the arms of the guy who insists she
set things right.
Less than a year ago, Hayley Jones made
a scandalous decision that sent her packing. She left her country hometown,
moved to the city and made a new life for herself. But it’s hard being someone
else when the real you has some unfinished business.
Hayley knows taking care of the
unresolved piece of her past could stir up more trouble and humiliation, so she
dodges the truth and puts her energy into her new friends and job. That
strategy works for a short while but people from her past start showing up in her
present.
Life gets even more complicated when
she realizes she’s falling for Nick Noel, a guy who knows she’s running from
something, and continually challenges her to be herself. But Hayley is afraid
of what will happen if Nick finds out who she really is and what she did back
home.
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Business-Whats-Her-Secret/dp/1784303984/ref=la_B002TD2YPK_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1424534991&sr=1-1
TotallyBound:
https://www.totallybound.com/unfinished-business
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Author Bio:
Thrill-seeking risk
takers, heroes with the dark past, sexy locales, untamed women! Isabelle Drake
writes stories featuring men and women who aren't afraid to go after what they
want. An avid traveler, she'll go just about anywhere--at least once--to meet
people and get story ideas.
Web: www.isabelledrake.com
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http://www.amazon.com/Isabelle-Drake/e/B002TD2YPK
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While writing my new
novel, Unfinished Business, I worked
to come up with a way to challenge my main character, Hayley. After suffering
through a really public, humiliating scandal, she’s moved from her country
hometown to the city of Detroit, Michigan. She’s started fresh with new
friends, new clothes and an edgy attitude. Her plan, avoid anything having to
do with the country and anyone who will expose her past. At the start of the
story she’s totally ready to have some spur-of-the-moment random sex because
she thinks that’s way to figure herself out. Readers will catch on pretty quick
to the idea that while satisfying in the short term, getting naked with a guy
she’s not that into isn’t really going to help her comes to terms with her
past.
What guy will offer the
acceptance she craves and challenge her to get over her past? A man who loves
her for who she is. The catch? He’s from
the country, too. So loving him will force her to find a way to love the part
of herself she hates.
In this excerpt, we get
a glimpse of that building conflict and a hint of her true feelings for Nick.
About
a minute later, Nick and I pull into the VFW lot, and he glides around looking
for a place to park. He finds a space behind a red F-150 pickup truck that has
a white window decal of a woman’s silhouette on the driver’s side. She’s
flexing her biceps and grinning from beneath wind-blown hair. It reads—‘Fear
This City Boy’. Nick stares at it then at the one on the passenger side that
reads—‘Redneck Girl’. He points and laughs. “I feel right at home.”
I
should but I don’t. I can already feel the weight of the stares and hear the
whispers of rumors. I turn away from Nick as I cringe, feeling like maybe I
should tell him about my past. It’d be better if he heard it from me but my
stomach turns sour just thinking about saying the words aloud. My own stupidity
and shame swirl in my heart and make my chest hot.
I’m just not ready. Yet.
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