BOOK INFORMATION
TITLE – Wrecked
SERIES – Stories of Serendipity
AUTHOR – Anne Conley
GENRE – Contemporary Romance
PUBLICATION DATE – June 10th
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) – 226 pages/71K
words
PUBLISHER – Anne Conley
COVER ARTIST – Vanessa Booke
COVER ARTIST – Vanessa Booke
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Welcome to Serendipity, Texas, where the days are hot and the nights are
steamy. Meet real people with real problems, as they live life and find love in
a small town.
One moment of distraction, and Renae causes Jason to wreck his
motorcycle, setting into motion a love affair that could be her undoing.
She has big plans for her empty nest, but one night of passion changes
everything. He's perfect. Too perfect, but her own stupidity entwines their
lives together forever. What if she finds out he's gassy, doesn’t like kittens,
has a terminal illness, or…hates babies?
Jason is just visiting his dad in Serendipity, not staying. But his
plans change when things with his dad are worse than he thought. Renae is a
pleasant distraction, and the more he gets to know her, the more she becomes
another reason to stay.
When their lives entwine, they both have choices to make, hurts to get
over, and ideals to let go of. Is it possible for them to do it, in order to
get their happily ever after? Or will things be wrecked?
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EXCERPT
She started out watching the movie
on the opposite end of the couch, but pretty soon she found herself flush
against him, needing to feel human contact.
They shared her blanket, but it wasn’t a sexual thing. It was comforting to feel his warmth pressed
against her body. To her delight, he
jumped when she did, but when she looked at his face to see if he looked
scared, he showed very little emotion.
Only his eyes held the fear that she knew her entire face was
projecting.
At some point, one of his arms
crawled around her shoulders and he pulled her close to him. At another point,
she reached for his other hand, holding it to her chest and squeezing it when
she closed her eyes against the soggy girl in the movie. His warmth and comfort was something she had
never experienced, though had often wished for.
She tried not to dwell on that thought too much. In Renae’s experience, dwelling on the
positive was inevitably a mistake. It
always set her up for a let-down.
After it was over, Jason let out a
pent up breath. “I forgot how freaky
that damn movie was.”
“Not me, I remembered. I won’t be sleeping tonight.” She laughed nervously and unfolded herself
from the ball she’d curled up into on the couch, standing and stretching.
Jason stood too. “I guess I should go. As much as I would like to stay… I don’t
think you want a repeat performance.”
He sounded hurt, and she wanted to
reassure him. He’d been so agreeable all
night, and they’d gotten along so well.
Renae touched his arm. “It’s not
that I don’t want that, Jason, I do. As
long as we’re talking about that amazing night we shared.” She watched as he nodded. “But I was really drunk that night, and I
want a real relationship with you. Not
like a marriage or anything, but I don’t want something based on great
sex. Does that make sense?”
He nodded soberly, waited a beat,
then his face cracked into that grin that made Renae willing to do
anything. “Great, huh?”
She laughed. “Stud-muffin caliber sex.”
He stilled, a perplexed expression
on his face. “I don’t know what that
means.” She answered with a shrug,
secretly amused by his confusion. “But
sex in the future is still on the table, right?”
Renae nodded. “Yes, I think so.” It was something she’d considered,
repeatedly. Especially at night when she
was supposed to be sleeping.
“Good.” He lowered his head to hers and kissed
her. It was such a sweet and tender
kiss, considering they’d just been talking about how great the sex between them
was, that Renae was caught off guard.
She’d been preparing for a conquering kiss of triumph, since she’d just
agreed they might have sex someday. But
this kiss was a consuming kiss, his warm lips softly nibbled on her lips and
when she opened, he slowly swept his tongue inside, softly overwhelming her
senses, until yet again she was a trembling mass of nerves. He seemed to sense it, and his hand came to
her lower back where he supported her.
He didn’t pull her closer, or press himself against her, he just held
her, kissing her softly. When his other
hand reached for her face, she couldn’t stop herself from melting into him.
Her own hands tugged on his hair,
adjusting the position of his face so she could deepen the kiss. As much as she loved the tender kiss, Renae
wanted more. She whimpered into his
mouth as she pulled his hair, and something seemed to snap inside Jason. He hauled her against his body and a primal
sound came from the back of his throat.
He trailed kisses across her cheek and down her neck, whispering about
her smell and the things she did to him.
“No control around you… so fucking
perfect… want more.”
She pulled his head back up to her
face to keep kissing him and wrapped one arm around his neck while her other
hand snaked down his chest. She felt
like a volcano had erupted inside her and her veins were filling with molten
lava. The only thing to quench it was
Jason.
CAT'S REVIEW
"Wrecked" by Anne Conley is the story of Renae and Jason. Renae, a single mom, is struggling with empty nest syndrome when her daughter goes off to college. Jason is in town for a short visit to help his dad out. They meet by "accident" and the story goes from there.
It's a nice change to see two people in their 40's in a love story. Renae and Jason are fantastic! Renae has spent so many years taking care of her daughter she doesn't really know how to "live" again, or she's afraid to. Trusting a man after being burned is a struggle for her. Jason isn't so sure that settling down is for him, until he meets Renae. How the two of them find each other and grow their relationship is a wonderful tale.
This book is part of a series, however, one doesn't need to read the others. This is my first book of the series that I've read and I had no trouble following. On that note, I am looking forward to reading the stories of other Seredidipity citizens. Check this one out!
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AUTHOR BIO
Anne has written her entire life and has the boxes of
angst-filled journals and poetry to prove it.
She’s been writing for public consumption for the last four years. Currently she is writing two romance
series. In Stories of Serendipity, she explores real people living real lives
in small town Texas in a contemporary romance setting. In The
Four Winds, she chronicles God’s four closest archangels, Uriel, Gabriel,
Raphael, and Michael, falling in love and becoming human. She lives in rural East Texas with her
husband and children in her own private oasis, where she prides herself in her
complete lack of social skills, choosing instead to live with the people inside
her head.
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