Sabrina
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BLURB:
After
a sudden job lay off, Maya holes up in her apartment, drinking wine and eating
ice cream until the day she’s slated to leave for Greece. Even though she’s
lost enthusiasm for this Greek island swimming vacation, she’s paid for the
trip so she boards the plane.
She figures her life
can’t possibly get any worse. She’s unemployed and spent most of her savings
hiring a lawyer to collect commissions her corrupt boss refused to pay. She
stumbles down to the Lefkada Island dock the first morning jetlagged and
grumpy. When she spots a Greek man with a drool-worthy body, her plan is to
look casual. Instead, she trips and plunges straight into the water. It wouldn’t
be so bad if she never had to see him again. But Eros, a former Hellenic Navy
SEAL, is one of her swimming tour companions. He boards the boat, pokes fun at
her American mannerisms and asks way too many irritating questions. And he’s so
damn hot, he makes her feel confused and distracted all the time. To make
matters worse, he’s assigned to be one of her swimming partners.
Maybe Maya could have
ignored the simmering attraction between them if it weren’t for the earthquake,
the tidal wave and being stranded alone with him on Kalamos Island.
Excerpt
I snatch my backpack and glance in the bathroom mirror.
Frowning, I tug down my floral print wrap to cover more of my thighs and twist
my lips into a frown. My long strawberry-blonde hair is a tangled mess and dark
circles rim my eyes. What was I thinking? After a ten-hour flight from the
States and a five-hour bus ride across Greece, the few hours of toss and turn
sleep on a rock hard mattress haven’t done a damn thing to improve my exhausted
state. Or my appearance.
My weary muscles rebel against every step and even keeping
my eyelids open is a struggle. What am I doing here? I’m a high maintenance
woman. I don’t do sleep deprivation and Third World countries. I usually head
to a beach resort in southern California, sprawl out on a lounge chair and
drink Mai Tais until it’s time for my late afternoon massage.
I exit the bathroom and glance at the wrinkled sheets and
the stiff pillows on the bed where I just spent a mostly sleepless night.
Dropping back down into that bed of discomfort doesn’t tempt me in the least.
What do they make mattresses out of in this country? I reach over to peel off
the mattress cover and then decide against it. I really don’t want to see
what’s hiding under that sheet. It’s probably a block of cement. I let out a
long sigh.
What I really need is a spa day and twelve hours of sleep in
a five star hotel. I imagine drifting off into a blissful sleep, my back
pleasantly cushioned by a pillow top mattress and my body cocooned with a cushy
comforter. I could be awakening refreshed now, about to sip espresso delivered
to my room instead of feeling like absolute hell and about to embark on a long
day of bouncing over waves on a boat. But this is Greece. The water and the
islands will be beautiful.
“Shit.” I forgot the motion sickness pill. I drop my
backpack, rush into the bathroom and rummage through my toiletry kit. My hand
finally closes around the cylindrical container of pills. I pour two of them
into my hand and down them with water before snatching up my backpack and
heading toward the door.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Sabrina
Devonshire, an avid swimmer most of her life, can usually be found near or
immersed in a body of water. If she's not seeking an endorphin rush in a pool,
lake or ocean, she's often encouraging people to work out or writing a romantic
suspense or magazine article.
She received
a John Woods Scholarship and an Arizona Commission of the Arts Professional
Development Grant toward her participation in a 2007 Prague Summer Program
writing workshop. She has a B.S. from Clemson University and an M.S. from the
University of Arizona.
Sabrina loves
traveling to off-the-beaten-path places where phones and electronic devices
tend not to work well. Peru, Nicaragua and Belize are some of her favorites.
Sabrina lives in southern Arizona with her husband, two children, and fluffy
dog, Sugar.
Website: www.sabrinadevonshireromances.com
Twitter:
@SabrinaDevonsh1
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