Most people tend to read an eclectic mix. If you're looking for something a little different, today features a lighter YA romance.
The Moonlight Serenade,
Fascination Island Book
2
Kate Hinderer
Determined
to someday sing on the stage in New York City, Collette takes an internship at
the luxury resort on Fascination Island.
While
she plans to hone her craft by singing nightly on the stage of the Moonlight
Serenade restaurant, she never expected to be pushed outside her comfort zone.
Shy
and reserved, she is challenged to step outside herself and release the inner
diva. When Falcon comes along, sparks fly and secrets are revealed.
Before
long Collette is forced to make life-changing decisions that will impact her
future in ways she never even imagined.
Excerpt
Audyn shook her head vigorously. “I’m ready.”
I clapped loudly to encourage her,
hoping she really was ready to do this difficult dive. She took another moment
before swaying forward slightly then letting go of the ropes and dropping off
the back of the swing. Her backflips were not as tight and structured as they
had been the first couple times. Instead of entering the water in a smooth,
nearly splash-less motion, she belly-flopped in. Tristan stood at the sound of
the loud splash but stayed in the aisle watching the tank closely.
Audyn swam closer to the glass,
going through the motions of the routine, but things seemed off, less put
together, more spastic. She kept moving around underwater and when I had to
take a deep breath, I realized I had been holding it in since she let go of the
ropes.
“She’s been under a long time,” I
commented to Tristan. He kept watching. His hand gripping the top of the chair
in front of him.
Another half minute passed, and now
I was worried. Audyn’s motions had slowed, but she hadn’t come up for air yet.
“Tristan it’s been too long,” I told
him panicked.
And then we both gasped when Audyn
turned to look out the tank directly at us. Her face masked in pain; her hands
clutched at her throat. Her legs moved together as if she wore the fin costume.
A second later she started thrashing in the water. It looked like she was
trying to escape an invisible hand that held her down, forcing her to stay
below the surface.
A scream rent the air, and before I
could even acknowledge that it was mine, Tristan was running full force to the
tank. He climbed the ladder built into the front of the tank, dove in and
wrapped his arms around Audyn before propelling them to the surface. Even after
her head was above water, the look on Audyn’s face was pure terror.
“Backstage,” Tristan yelled at me as
he began swimming away with Audyn in his arms.
I took off running through the empty
rows of chairs, to the hallway and down through a long corridor to the very
last room. By the time I burst through the door, Tristan was climbing out of the
tank with Audyn still in his arms. She wasn’t moving.
“Is she breathing?” I begged, rushing to them.
About the Author
In
a nutshell: Writer. Blogger. Journalist. Marathon runner. Social media
enthusiast. Beer drinker. Avid YA reader. Traveler. Chicago native. Milwaukee
resident. Music fanatic. Fashion lover. Oldest of nine.
Writing
has been in my soul from the very beginning. In grade school I started my own
local paper for the street I lived on. In middle school I wrote for the school
paper and loved any English writing assignment. I started writing novels in
high school. At the time my friends were the characters, the setting was almost
always Regency England, and I scratched the story into lined notebooks.
Now,
I have a journalism degree and a dozen various business writing gigs under my
belt. I’ve lived in a handful of US cities including Milwaukee, Chicago,
Boston, St. Louis and New York. I pen a personal fashion and lifestyle blog,
ModlyChic.com, and continue to write about commercial real estate.
My
first book, Aurora Undefined, was published in 2011. The Emerald Isle, the
first Fascination Island book, came out during the summer of 2012, at which
time I immediately began writing the second book in the series.
Next
up . . . stay tuned! I’m working on a new contemporary novel as well as the
third book in the Fascination Island series.
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Kate
Hinderer Writes (blog): http://katehinderer.blogspot.com/
ModlyChic
(fashion blog): http://www.modlychic.com/
Twitter:
@kate_hinderer
Amazon
profile: http://www.amazon.com/Kate-Hinderer/e/B004Y7N2N2/
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