Wanderlust
by
Bernadette Marie
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GENRE:
Contemporary Romance
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BLURB:
Gia
Gallow has traveled the world. Her wanderlust landed her in Georgia
where she has created a life for herself away from the petty
differences of relatives and domineering ex-lovers. Having settled in
America, she has a successful business and dear friends—and the
attention of both Dane and Russell Walker. Due to her own family's
dramas over dueling hearts, she might have to forget about her
feelings for Dane to keep peace within the Walker family, but
sometimes even running thousands of miles away can't keep a heart
from going after what the heart wants. And Gia's heart wants Dane.
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Excerpt:
Dane
awoke in his childhood bedroom with a start. As he sat there, a bead
of sweat rolling
down his
forehead, he realized it wasn't that he'd heard anything to wake
him—in fact, it had been too quiet.
The sun
was up and warm as it filtered through the window and onto his skin.
He wiped
his brow with the back of his hand and then tucked it under his head.
He closed his
eyes and
thought about the room.
It was
his and Gerald's room. Oh, if the walls could talk, he amused himself
with the thought. They'd lived too far from town to have girls
climbing in the windows, but they'd climbed out a few times. But once
again, they'd lived too far from town to sneak out without being
noticed.
They'd
done things such as walk down to the river and fish by a full moon.
There had been an
enormous
tree outside the window and during a storm it could be menacing and
scary. But on a
warm
summer night, it was a refuge as the big branch came right to their
window like a bridge to the outdoors.
There
had always been two beds in the room. Sometimes they'd be pushed
together for comfort, especially when that tree outside swayed in the
wind. They'd also been the walls to some of the greatest forts ever
built with blankets and sheets.
Long
talks were had in that room. Some of those talks went well into early
morning. They'd
debated
over Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. There were some very serious
discussions over Super Bowl XXXIII. Atlanta's new team had gone to
the big game under the coaching of Dan Reeves, and they had to play
his old team, the Denver Broncos. It seemed unfair to Gerald, but
Dane thought it was just. He'd been a fan of John Elway his whole
life. If he thought back hard enough, he was fairly sure that when
he'd taunted Gerald with Elway's win, he'd gotten a black eye. The
thought of it had him chuckling to himself in the quiet.
Talks
about football and fishing soon gave to girls and talks about birds
and bees. He was grateful that walls couldn't actually talk.
No
longer were there posters and drawings on the walls. His mother had
redesigned the room,
he knew,
for future grandchildren. The room was clean of everything but a
dresser and a rocking chair. The closet door, another menacing
nightmare maker, was cracked open as the door was too warped to stay
closed.
Some
poor grandchild would be as afraid of the abyss of the closet as he
and Gerald had been.
It
wasn't long before the sound of the cattle caught his attention. He'd
have to admit it was a
much
better sound than early morning traffic. Then he heard the roaring of
the first pickup truck engine. Surely he'd actually slept through the
first. The sun was up after all, and he knew his father and brothers
were up before the sun.
Dane
rolled to his side and pulled the blanket up to his ear. This was why
it was good to be
visiting.
No one had awakened him and made him help out with the early morning
chores. Suckers!
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Bernadette
Marie has been an avid writer since the early age of 13, when she’d
fill notebook after notebook with stories that she’d share with her
friends. Her journey into novel writing started the summer before
eighth grade when her father gave her an old typewriter. At all times
of the day and night you would find her on the back porch penning her
first work, which she would continue to write for the next 22 years.
In 2007
– after marriage, filling her chronic entrepreneurial needs, and
having five children –
Bernadette
began to write seriously with the goal of being published. That year
she wrote 12
books.
In 2009 she was contracted for her first trilogy and the published
author was born. In
2011 she
(being the entrepreneur that she is) opened her own publishing house,
5 Prince
Publishing,
and has released contemporary titles and has begun the process of
taking on other
authors
in other genres.
Bernadette
spends most of her free time driving her kids to their many events.
She is also an
accomplished
martial artist, working her way to her second degree black belt in
Tang Soo Do.
An avid
reader she loves to meet readers who enjoy reading contemporary
romances and she always promises Happily Ever After.
Bernadete
Marie
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