BEFORE & AFTER Synopsis:
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Rike and Peyton fell in love in college.
A boy from the wrong
side of the tracks, covered in ink and crooning in a bar is the last
person a straight laced girl with a art major should fall for, but his
rough edges made her jagged, alive, shaving away the coddled southern
princess and revealing a soul wild and brilliant.
They fell in
love, despite her family and his past and all the reasons why it
wouldn't work--and with their best friends, they made a life. Everyone
was supposed to live happily ever after.
They, more than anyone, knows that life doesn't go according to plan.
They, more than anyone, knows that life doesn't go according to plan.
Rike
and Peyton fell in love in college. A boy with a guitar, and a poet's
heart, and a girl with freckles dusted over her nose, a perfect fucking
fairy tale.
But what happens when the fairy tale doesn't fall apart--but is forgotten?
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Nazarea Andrews' Bio:
Nazarea Andrews (N to almost everyone) is an avid reader and tends to write the stories she wants to read. Which means she writes everything from zombies and dystopia to contemporary love stories. When not writing, she can most often be found driving her kids to practice and burning dinner while she reads, or binging watching TV shows on Netflix. N loves chocolate, wine, and coffee almost as much as she loves books, but not quite as much as she loves her kids. She lives in south Georgia with her husband, daughters, spoiled cat and overgrown dog. She is the author of World Without End series, Neverland Found, Edge of the Falls, and The University of Branton Series. Stop by her twitter (@NazareaAndrews) and tell her what fantastic book she should read next.
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BEFORE & AFTER by Nazarea
Andrews
EXCERPT
I squeeze my eyes closed. I knew it was coming, but still—to hear it said so bluntly is like
running headlong into a brick wall. I shift, so I’m lying across his chest. The koi on his arm stares up at me through
the shield of seaweed and coral, and I study it.
“I love that one,” I say. He
chuckles, and I prop myself up, glaring at him. “What?”
“You should. It’s yours.” My mouth falls open
and he laughs again. “Why the
hell does that surprise you? Half my ink is because of you.”
“Tell me,” I demand.
He pushes off the bed, and stands naked next to me. I make a small hum
of appreciation and Rike laughs again. “Stop. Focus.”
With some effort—and a good
deal of reluctance—I force my
attention from the more interesting bits of his anatomy to the ink he’s pointing at.
I’m a
patchwork across his body. The pinup girl on his ribcage with her head turned
away, and long red hair. The script wrapped around his right wrist. The
matching swallows on his back. And the koi, the brilliant tattoo that’s captivated me since I woke up in the
hospital.
“Why do you call me Fish?” I ask,
tracing it.
“People say there’s plenty of fish in the sea. I say, fuck
you, she was my sea.”
My breath catches and I glance up at hm. Let my lips curve into a tiny
smile. “Doesn’t take mean I’m Sea?”
He shifts, covering me and sliding into me in one move that makes my
laugh catch in my throat. Turn into a broken groan.
“Fish sounds better,” he
whispers, watching me.
I whimper, and he smiles, a smile so fucking beautiful and sad it
makes me want to cry. Moves in me, slow and sweet, his lips on my neck and
shoulders and lips, whispering sweet, dirty words of love while he makes love
to me, until I gasp, my body arching against him as I come apart.
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