Author E.M. Tippetts has given Bookworm Beauties a FREE copy of Castles on the Sand to give away to one lucky winner.... Read below for details! :-)
Book Description:
"A fast-paced blend of high-stakes drama and average
teenage concerns (sex, appearance, friends), capped with a welcome message of
hope." ~Kirkus Reviews
She gets it. She feels the pain of others as if it were her own.
But when a mysterious man claiming to be her long lost brother appears with promises of relieving her suffering, trusting him could reveal more truths than Madison is ready for. Because the truth can hurt, too.
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Excerpt:
Mom gets to her feet. “How often do you
talk to John?”
“I don't know. He emails me. Sometimes
I email back.”
For a moment she just stares at me, her
eyes narrowing, then she lunges across the room and slaps me across the face.
Pain explodes across my still tender nose and sinuses and I find myself
clinging to the fridge door handle to keep from falling down. I must have
stumbled into it after Mom's blow. “Mom...”
She curses, then ducks out the back
door.
Papers flutter in her wake and I snatch
one out of the air. It's a cancelled rent check. The others on the floor prove
to be other canceled checks, but I take a closer look at one and see that it's
actually a bounced check. Mom's overspent her bank balance again. I pick them
all up – a headache beginning to throb behind my eyes – and stack them neatly
on the table again. I hate it when mom hits me. She never does it hard enough
to leave a mark, but it stings to have the one person I live with hate me so
much that she resorts to violence.
It makes me feel like a stranger in my
home, an intruder, someone who isn't welcome. When I walk back to my room, I
can't even sit down on my bed, I perch on the edge and catch a glimpse of
myself in the mirror. The two black eyes have faded into just dark circles, but
I wonder if they'll purple up again.
Out in the back yard, I sense more than
hear her potters wheel start up. I hope that calms her down.
And I really wish I could call Kailie.
I flip through my pitifully short list of phone contacts and stop on John's
name. A glance at the clock tells me it's eleven p.m., which means it's
midnight in Utah. My thumb hesitates, then punches the send key.
One ring and I feel like I'm being rude.
Two and I feel like I'm taking a bad night and making it a million times worse.
Three and I get ready to hang up.
“Hello?” says a sleepy voice.
“Hi.”
“Mmm, hi. Who's this?”
“It's Madison.”
“Madison?”
He says my name as if I'm a movie star who just called him at home. “Really?
How are you? It is so good to hear your voice.”
About the Author:
Emily Mah Tippetts writes romance under the name E.M.
Tippetts and science fiction and fantasy under the name Emily Mah. Originally
from New Mexico, she now lives in London with her family. Before she was a
published author, she was an attorney who specialized in real estate,
contracts, and estate planning, especially literary estate planning.
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Give Away Details:
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