Genre:
Contemporary coastal romance, women’s fiction.
Available
worldwide from all ebook retailers 1st February.
In this heartwarming coastal romance, Escape bestselling
author Juliet Madison asks, what if your favourite celebrity fell in love with
you?
Yoga teacher and single mother, Chrissie Burns has a plan:
move into the rundown beach house left to her by her deceased aunt, renovate
it, sell it, and move on. The scene of a terrible accident years ago, the house
needs to get out of Chrissie's hands as soon as possible.
But Tarrin's Bay, where the house stands, has more to
offer than bad memories. The town is lovely, the people friendly, and even
Chrissie's young son finds friends and begins coming out of his shell. Employed
at Serendipity Retreat as a yoga instructor, Chrissie is shocked to be given
the role of private teacher to Drew Williams, Australia’s top singer/songwriter
for the month.
Relationships between instructors and clients are strictly
forbidden, but Drew draws happiness out of Chrissie with his down-to-earth
nature and sense of humour. Days of stretching and bending may bring Chrissie
unexpected peace and strength, but she knows that this interlude must end, and
there's no pose or position to aid her when Drew walks away and leaves her
broken-hearted.
Excerpt:
A stronger breeze
rose in the air and Chrissie shivered. ‘I should have brought a cardi.’
‘Me too. I mean, not
a cardi, a male version of such an item, a...’
Chrissie raised her
eyebrows. ‘Lost for words?’
‘I’ve gone blank!
What’s that thing, you know, that covers your arms and keeps you warm?’
‘I’m not helping you
out, I want to watch you struggle.’ She placed her hands on her hips in
amusement.
‘Oh man, this jet lag
must have frozen my brain.’ He twirled his finger in the air as though trying
to summon the correct word. ‘Jacket! A jacket! Geez, it must be past my
bedtime.’
Chrissie laughed.
Drew glanced at her
arms as she rubbed them. ‘If I had a jacket, I’d do the gentlemanly thing and
wrap it around you.’ His voice was softer now, more genuine.
‘Like they do in the
movies, huh?’
He nodded.
‘Oh well, what a
shame. I’ll survive.’ Chrissie held her arms close to her body and continued
watching the fireworks, when a pair of arms slid around her from behind,
superimposing themselves on top of hers and spreading warmth across her skin.
‘Will these do
instead?’ Drew asked gently. ‘I’ll be a human jacket.’
A soft smile floated
onto Chrissie’s lips. ‘Even better,’ she whispered. ‘I mean, body heat and all
that.’
His arms covered
hers, pushing more warmth into her skin and sending fireworks of her own off in
her belly. The way he held her from behind was so natural, so effortless, so...perfect.
They fit together, like a lock and a key, like a piece of timber slotting into
the groove in another piece of timber, forming a strong supportive structure. They
stood like that, gazing at the explosions that had nothing on the ones going
off inside, until a smoky grey blackness hung in the sky.
The display might be
over, but whatever was happening between them was not.
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