TUESDAY EXCERPTS: “REMINDERS OF HIM”

Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events: First Chapter/Intros, now hosted by Socrates Book Reviews; and Teaser Tuesdays hosted by The Purple Booker.

Today’s feature is one of my new books:  Reminders of Him, by Colleen Hoover…

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Intro:

(Kenna)

There’s a small wooden cross staked into the ground on the side of the road with the date of his death written on it.

Scotty would hate it.  I bet his mother put it there.

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Teaser:

I stop wiping her hands.  She never brings up her mother.  This is twice in one day we’ve brushed the conversation. (p. 63).

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Synopsis:

After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself.

The only person who hasn’t closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the few remaining links to Kenna’s daughter. But if anyone were to discover how Ledger is slowly becoming an important part of Kenna’s life, both would risk losing the trust of everyone important to them.

The two form a connection despite the pressure surrounding them, but as their romance grows, so does the risk. Kenna must find a way to absolve the mistakes of her past in order to build a future out of hope and healing.

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Would you keep reading?

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