Triple Love Score
by Brandi Megan Granett
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GENRE: Contemporary Romance
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BLURB:
Miranda Shane lives a
quiet life among books and letters as a professor in a small upstate town. When
the playing-by-the-rules poet throws out convention and begins to use a
Scrabble board instead of paper to write, she sets off a chain of events that
rattles her carefully planned world.
Her awakening propels her
to take risks and seize chances she previously let slip by, including a
game-changing offer from the man she let slip away. But when the revelation of
an affair with a graduate student threatens the new life Miranda created, she
is forced to decide between love or poetry.
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EXCERPT:
“You sure you don’t want to take a cab?” Scott asked her.
“I’m sure. Then we wouldn’t see the diamonds,” Lynn said.
“Tiffany’s?” Miranda asked. “You’re a little young for that
aren’t you? Though you are Bunny’s granddaughter.”
“Not like Grandma Bunny’s diamonds! The diamonds on the
sidewalk. Look!”
Sure enough, the concrete in front of them sparkled. Four or
five runs of sidewalk shimmered with mica flecks, then it went to plain for a
block or two, then more that sparkled.
“I want to know what makes them different,” Miranda said to
Scott, pointing at the abrupt change from sparkle to non-sparkle on the
sidewalk in front of them.
“But knowing the difference would ruin it,” Scott said.
“You’d rather think it was magic?”
“I like the idea of magic. Don’t you?” he asked.
“I don’t take much stock in that,” Miranda said.
“Daddy, look!” Lynn said.
And there in front of them was a huge elephant balloon with
a circus ball balancing on his trunk. The ball wasn’t all the way inflated yet;
it wobbled a little and the sides of the elephant shuddered some as the helium
pumped in. But an elephant as tall as a house at Central Park was a sight to
behold no matter the size or amount of helium left to go. The crowd around them seemed to holding their
breath in anticipation as the ball slowly rose.
“See,” Miranda said, “to people watching on television
that's magic. But it’s not magic. It’s a year of planning and then people
working all night on the day before a family holiday to pull it off.”
“But it’s magic to her,” Scott said.
Lynn strained at the barricade, craning her neck to see down
the street and the rest of the balloons staged there.
“Sure, it’s magic to her. She’s a kid. Kids have to believe
in magic. When you really grow up, it’s different.”
“I guess I’m not really grown up then,” Scott said. “And
maybe I don’t want to be.”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Granett is the
author of My Intended (William Morrow, 2000). Her short fiction has appeared in
Pebble Lake Review, Folio, Pleiades and other literary magazines, and is
collected in the volume Cars and Other Things That Get Around.
In addition, she
writes an author interview series for the Huffington Post, and is a member of
the Tall Poppy Writers, a community of writing professionals committed to
growing relationships, promoting the work of its members, and connecting
authors with each other and with readers.
When Granett is
not writing or teaching or mothering, she is honing her archery skills. She
lives in New Jersey with her husband, daughter and two dogs.
Author Social
Media Links
Website: www.brandigranett.com/
Facebook: Brandi
Megan Granett, Author
Twitter: @brandigranett
Instagram: @mrsgranett
Goodreads: Brandi Megan Granett
Purchase Links
Barnes &
Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/triple-love-score-brandi-megan-granett/1123694044?ean=9781942545408
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE
Brandi will be awarding a $50 Amazon or B/N GC to a
randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
Thank you for hosting
RispondiEliminaThis sounds good! I've added it to my TBR on GR. Thanks for the giveaway! :)
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