A very special thank you to Brooke Albrecht who put together my lovely cover and to Will Parkinson who set up the cover reveal. :) And to YOU for stopping by to check it out. Isn't it pretty? <3
Book
Name: Most Beautiful Words
Author
Name: Raine O’Tierney
Cover
Artist: Brooke Albrecht
Publisher: Dreamspinner
Press
Blurb(s):
Twelve-year-old Autumn's world is shattered when her beloved Great-Pop,
Tommy Johnson, suffers a stroke that leaves him comatose. With everyone around
her resigning themselves to the inevitable, Autumn is the only one not willing
to give up. She and Great-Pop have more secret stories to share with each
other, after all. More stories about Roy McMillan—the great love of Tommy's
life whom he lost fifty years ago.
Autumn struggles to keep Great-Pop on this side of death's door. But
how can she compete with the beautiful and mysterious Valley—a place of surreal
magic where the sun never fully sets? Especially when there's someone familiar
in the Valley who will do everything he can to keep Great-Pop from returning to
her.
Excerpt:
“So what’s my prize?”
“I’m gonna let you kiss me,” Roy said with a big,
devious smile.
“Yeah?” Tommy asked, thinking he was being put on. “All right, I guess I’ll take the consolation prize then.”
“That leaves me with the grand prize by default.”
And he leaned in, and as sweet as anything Tommy had experienced in his whole life, Roy kissed his slightly parted lips. Even when Tommy stiffened, Roy did not pull back. Instead, slowly and deliberately, he gathered Tommy to him with a hold that was loose enough for him to escape from, but tight enough to be a real, romantic embrace. He kissed Tommy until he had to draw breath, and even then he did not let him go all the way.
“You… really wanted to?” Tommy asked, his head spinning. In that moment he had a single, solitary regret. It wasn’t coming out here to shoot arrows, and it wasn’t that he hadn’t pulled out of Roy’s embrace or even that he’d been kissed. It was that he hadn’t kissed Roy first. Because Tommy liked the kissing. A lot. And he wanted to do it more.
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About the Author: Called "Queen of the Sweetness" (well, two or three people said it anyway!) Raine O'Tierney loves writing sweet stories about first loves, first times, fidelity, forever-endings and...friskiness?
Raine O'Tierney lives outside of Kansas City with her husband, fellow Dreamspinner Press author, Siôn O'Tierney. When she's not writing, she's either asleep, or fighting the good fight for intellectual freedom at her library day job. Raine believes the best thing we can do in life is be kind to one another, and she enjoys encouraging fellow writers. Writing for 20+ years (with the last 10 spent on M/M) Raine changes sub-genres to suit her mood and believes all good stories end sweetly. Contact her if you're interested in talking about point-and-click adventure games or about which dachshunds are the best kinds of dachshunds!
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Tour Dates: 9/10/14
Tour Stops: Parker Williams, Prism Book Alliance, Cate Ashwood, Velvet Panic, Fallen Angel Reviews, Regular Guys, Hot Romance, Wake Up Your Wild Side, Iyana Jenna, Elisa - My Reviews and Ramblings, Love Bytes, Amanda C. Stone, LeAnn’s Book Reviews, Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words, Up All Night, Read All Day, Rainbow Gold Reviews, Nephylim, EE Montgomery, Inked Rainbow Reads, Andrew Q. Gordon, Emotion in Motion
It might be a cliché and perhaps so many people will say the same thing but I think the most beautiful words that I have heard is that 'I love you' and the wonderful feeling that overcomes you when they are said for the first time and you feel the same and respond, and then each time from then on. What a soppy romantic!
ReplyDeleteOh but the description of the story looks so sad even the beautiful cover where I imagine its Tommy so alone after loosing his great love Roy. Thank you for a chance to win your book.
This is absolutely WONDERFUL Sula--your most beautiful words make me all swoony!! <3 Thank you so much for your kind thoughts and for entering the contest!! *^_^*
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