Water Bearer
by Wendi Christner
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GENRE: Contemporary Romance
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BLURB:
In a small Southern
community, inseparable lifelong friends prepare to follow their own paths, but
one last summer together changes their lives forever.
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EXCERPT:
Jared parked the tractor next to the barn and stepped down.
He had a clear view of Cassidy as she hefted a rug over the clothesline behind
Gima’s house. Her dark blond ponytail swung with the effort, and her long legs
extended as she rose onto her toes. The shift of her body twisted his gut and
sent an ache even lower. He couldn’t imagine a day when she wouldn’t be there,
but that day was coming. And coming fast.
She whacked the rug with a broom, and a cloud of dust
billowed out around her.
“When’s she leaving?” Clarence asked.
Jared glanced over his shoulder. He stood taller than his
father. Two years ago they’d been the same height, but Clarence’s shoulders had
started to bow. The lines in his face were carved too deep, and his hair had
turned solid gray. He was too young to look as old as he did.
“End of August. Week after the Corn Dance.”
“Sooner the better.” Clarence slapped him on the shoulder
and started toward the barn. “Just let her go.”
“I’m going to town,” Jared called after him.
“See if Lilith needs anything.”
Jared wiped the sweat from his brow and climbed in his
truck. At the end of his driveway he turned right and pulled onto the narrow
rutted path that led to Gima’s.
He heard Cassidy coughing before he made it to the back of
the house. If she’d heard him drive up, she didn’t let it stop her from her
chore. Dirt smudged her face, and the sweat that trickled from her temples had
left trails in the grime.
A familiar heaviness settled on his heart at the same time
his groin tightened. She was the only girl he’d ever seen who would look
beautiful if she wrestled a pig on its own turf, and she didn’t have a clue how
gorgeous she was or what she did to him.
“Hey, beautiful,” he said with a smirk.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Wendi Christner is the author of Writer’s Digest Short-Short Story
Competition winner “Throwing Stones,” a fairy self-help book, and several
novels written under various pseudonyms. Her gritty, emotional stories tend to
have a Southern voice born of her roots in the Florida Tampa
Twitter/Instagram @WendiDarlin
Buy Link:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Water-Bearer-Southern-Skies-Collection-ebook/dp/B01JIWVIUG/ref=sr_1_1
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE
Wendi will be awarding a $10 Amazon or B/N GC to a
randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
Thank you!
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