Run Away With Me
Come Back to Me, #3
Come Back to Me, #3
by Mila Gray
Publication date: November 28th 2017
Published by: Simon Pulse
Genres: New Adult, Romance
Publication date: November 28th 2017
Published by: Simon Pulse
Genres: New Adult, Romance
BLURB
Emerson Lowe and popular
ice-hockey player Jake McCallister have been best friends since third grade but
just as their friendship starts to morph into something more, a terrible event
occurs that heralds the end of innocence for both of them. Within a week,
Jake’s living on the other side of the country and Emerson is left alone to
pick up the pieces of her life in a small town determined to paint her as a
liar.
Seven years on and Emerson is
still living on the beautiful Pacific West island of Bainbridge, helping her
family run their outdoor adventure company. The last thing she needs is Jake
turning up, bringing with him old memories and opening up old wounds. But
Jake—even better looking than Emerson remembered and on the cusp of a bright
sporting future—seems determined to revive their friendship no matter how much
Emerson tries to push him away and soon they’re in the midst of a passionate
summer romance that neither of them wants to end.
But if they’re to have any kind
of future, they’re first going to need to confront the past, a past that most
people want to stay buried.
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EXCERPT:
I
hear a voice behind me.
‘Need
some help with that?’
I
spin around.
It
takes a couple of seconds for my brain to confirm that it’s actually him. That
it’s actually Jake McCallister standing in front of me and not a hallucination.
My heart does this fierce smash and rebound against my ribs as though it’s been
violently woken from hibernation. I draw in a breath so big it feels like my
lungs might explode, as if all that air is filling a vacuum and I’ll never be
able to let it out again.
I
hate this feeling. Hate the way the adrenaline floods my blood stream and tears
sting my eyes. Hate the way my body reacts in a thousand contradictory ways at
the sight of him, as though someone has plugged me into a wrong socket and
fried all my synapses.
I
have an impulse to throw myself at him but I’m not sure if it’s because I want
to hug him or beat the living crap out of him. I drop the kayak, my hands
fisting automatically at my sides.
I
watch the smile on his lips fade when he notices the set of my jaw. His
expression had started off wary but now I see him swallow and press his lips together,
something he always does when he’s nervous.
I
take note of that and at the same time notice a dozen other tiny,
insignificant, monumental details about this new old Jake. I see the faded
white scar on his chin—the one I gave him and the new scar cutting across his
eyebrow. Then there’s his height – we were always the same height but now he’s
tall. . . much taller than me. His dark brown hair is the same, though –
unruly, untamed, falling in his eyes. He’s looking at me with the same mix of
uncertainty that he looked at me the very last time I saw him.
I
glance away, down at the sand. My whole body is shaking and I can’t seem to get
it under control.
‘Em?’
I hear him say.
My
head flies up before I can stop it. No one calls me that any more. His voice is
deeper, mellower. The inflection though when he says my name is still just the
same… and instantly something inside me starts coming undone. Jake always used
to say my name like it belonged to him, and only him.
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Author Info
Mila Gray is the pen name for
Sarah Alderson, author of Hunting Lila, Losing Lila, The Sound, Fated and Out
of Control.
Originally from London she has
lived in Bali for the last four years with her husband and daughter.
As well as writing young adult
fiction under the name Sarah Alderson and adult fiction under the name Mila
Gray, she also writes screenplays.
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