Julie will be
awarding a digital copy of What She Wanted to a randomly drawn winner via
rafflecopter during the tour.
BLURB:
It seems Katy has
been waiting for her eighteenth birthday all her life. Raised by a grandfather
who never got over losing Katy’s mother to cancer at a young age, she’s dreamed
of a life free of the burdens of her family’s tragedies. But just before her
birthday, she learns tragedy isn’t finished telling its story . . .
Before she can begin
her new life, Katy’s grandfather suffers a heart attack, a box of her mother’s
keepsakes, including a journal written to Katy while she was in her mother’s
womb, at his side. Believing the only thing her grandpa loves enough to live
for is her mother’s memory, Katy reads to him from the journal every night at
the hospital. Night after night, line after line, Katy begins to see herself as
her mother saw her in her dreams. Buoyed by her mother’s undying love and
conviction, Katy vows to make her mother’s sacrifice mean something and
promises to fulfill all her mother’s requests. Even the hard ones. Especially
those . . .
Excerpt:
I swiveled in my desk chair, crossing too-long legs under a
too-short desk. Sweat ran over my temples, despite the wildly spinning ceiling
fan overhead. The brutal summer heat had dried up local creeks and forced Mark,
my grandpa, to turn off the air conditioner while he was at work. He couldn’t
afford to keep the house livable at these temperatures. He hated the electric bills.
Mark hated everything.
I fingered a stack of college applications and tossed them
at my best friend, Heidi. “I thought this summer would be amazing. So far, it’s
just hot. And depressing.”
She flopped back on my bed, scattering pillows and raising the
applications overhead for inspection. “It’s not too late to come with me to
Kent State. You have the grades, and they have a great film school.”
“Not this year.” Mark had conveniently forgotten to sign my
FAFSA or share any of the personal tax information I needed to finish the
financial aid paperwork and leave town. “Maybe next.”
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Julie Anne Lindsey is a multi-genre author who writes
the stories that keep her up at night. She’s a self-proclaimed nerd with a
penchant for words and proclivity for fun. Mother of three, wife to a sane
person and Ring Master at the Lindsey Circus, most days you'll find her online,
amped up on caffeine and wielding a book. Julie started writing to make people
smile. Someday she plans to change the world.
Julie is a member of the International Thriller
Writers (ITW), Sisters in Crime (SinC) and the Canton Writer’s Guild.
http://julieannelindsey.com/
https://twitter.com/JulieALindsey
https://www.facebook.com/JulieAnneLindseyAuthor
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