BLURB
This book is for mature audiences
18+ It contains explicit language and sexual content.
Stella Walker is twenty-six years old
and hiding from a past that haunts her on a daily basis. In a
desperate attempt to escape the torment of her memories, she tries to
rebuild her life and move on.
She seeks the seclusion of a rural town
and tracks down a distant relative who Stella knows will give help,
but who is unaware of the past she is trying to flee.
What Stella doesn’t anticipate, is
meeting Lawson Drake.
Lawson Drake is twenty-nine years old,
a mechanic who owns an auto service and smash repair shop. When he
comes across a broken-down car by the side of the road, he is
intrigued by its owner — a caramel-eyed brunette who clearly has a
score to settle, not only with her defective vehicle, but with anyone
who tries to get too close. The thing is, Lawson wants close. He
wants more than close. He wants as close as he can possibly get.
Will Lawson discover who the real
Stella is? Or will her defences prove to be too strong?
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EXCERPT
Pain. Physical, or psychological ...
which of the two hurts the most? Is it possible for one to hurt more
than the other, or are both just as debilitating?
Physical pain is instant, brutal and
uncamouflaged. It’s bold and undeniable, often leaving a visible
scar of the damage caused. Psychological pain is one that festers
within, unseen, yet just as potent. It is often a wolf in sheep’s
clothing, slowly chipping away at a person’s soul, lacking
visibility.
Both forms of pain have the capacity to
bring a person to his or her knees, destroy their faith and render
them useless. But when the two collide, merge, unite in a common
cause, the effects can be catastrophic.
My body was currently experiencing both
forms of pain as I took slow tedious steps across the lawn in the
direction of what I had been evading, running from, for the past
couple of years.
I knew this moment would come, at one
point or another, for some things are just inescapable. Yet,
regardless of the inevitability, that did not mean I wished to
welcome it sooner rather than later. In fact, the longer I
avoided it, the better. It meant I was able to bury it in an
untouched grave, that grave’s location deep within my body.
The wind lashed my skin with each step
I took, leaving an icy sting. And the leaves under my booted feet
cried out when I pressed them into the earth. I couldn’t look up. I
refused to, instead focussing on the black leather of my boots
together with the grass and gravel that filled my vision. My nails
dug into the palms of my hands as I clenched my fists, nerves and
apprehension blanketing me. The pain of my biting fingernails was
welcome, providing a microscopic distraction from what was to come in
mere seconds. But it was microscopic — the pounding of my heart
overpowering it and reminding me why I’d run, why I’d fled my
previous life and why it was so difficult to return. Returning meant
facing what had happened, what I’d done ... what I’d suffered.
Returning meant closure, which, up
until six months ago, I’d never thought possible. Six months ago,
I’d escaped and reinvented myself. I’d left my previous life and
started a new one — one that, unintentionally, included Lawson
Drake.
That man, that infuriating man, not
only fixed my stupid car, he fixed my broken and tormented heart. He
discovered my almost extinguished light.
He discovered Stella.
AUTHOR BIO
“I'm an author. I am married. I am a
mother of two adorable little people. I'm a bookworm, craftworm,
movieworm, and sportsworm. I'm also a self confessed shop-aholic,
tea-aholic, car-aholic, and choc-aholic.” Born and raised in
Melbourne, Australia, K.M. Golland studied law and worked as a
conveyancer before putting her career on hold to raise her children.
She then traded her legal work for her love of writing and found her
dream career.
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