THEN, NOW, FOREVER (Heartbeat #2)
By Teodora Kostova
Release date:
September 2013
Genre: NA
Contemporary Romance (17+ due to sexual situations, language and extremely hot
Italian guys :P)
Synopsis:
Then
Gia had let Beppe into her life so easily, as
if it was the most natural thing in the world. She’d held him when he’d hurt so
badly he’d thought he might die; she’d talked him down when he’d been so angry
he’d considered doing something he’d regret for the rest of his life.
Gia had saved his life.
At least
once he
needed to be strong for her.
This right
now, this moment, was theirs. It belonged to them, not to abusive or dead
fathers, not to guilt, regret or sorrow, not to the past of the future.
But will their love
survive when tragedy separates them?
“I have to
go, Gia. I’m tired and I feel empty. I know you need me, but I have nothing left
to give you. I need to heal.”
“I miss you so much
it’s hard to breathe.”
Now
Beppe was
still Gia’s closest friend. But they’d never be anything more than that again.
Remembering what it felt like to have the person you love most in the world be
torn away from you still hurt. Gia was determined never to be put into that
position again.
There was never lack
of love, but can Beppe win Gia’s trust again?
Forever
“When I was
broken you gave me pieces of yourself and made me whole again.”
IN A
HEARTBEAT (Heartbeat #1)
Synopsis
Stella
“I’ve been in and out of hospitals for the past ten months. I’ve had half my
liver removed and even though this time the doctors are very optimistic that
they’ve removed all of the tumours, they can’t be sure. In another three months
they want me here again for a check up. Right now I feel better than I’ve ever
felt. I know the damn thing is gone, at least for the moment. Despite that, I
can’t make any plans for the future, not yet. I need to go somewhere where
nobody knows me, where I can relax and maybe even forget about all this. Where
I can meet people who don’t think of me as the girl who lost her father and her
brother in a car accident, and who has cancer. I want to have fun, even if it’s
for a couple of months.”
When Stella decides to visit her estranged
cousin Lisa in Genoa, she has no idea Italy will give her a new reason to live.
Max
“Her gaze locked on a scene so beautiful, the picturesque beach paled in
comparison. A lifeguard emerged from the water, his orange trunks stuck to his
legs and water dripping all over him. He shook his head to get rid of some of
the water in his hair and Stella felt as if everything started developing in
slow motion – tiny drops of water slid from his neck down his broad chest and
muscular arms, along a weaving tattoo on his right shoulder, and continued
downwards towards his chest and washboard stomach, finally getting lost in the
waistband of his trunks. A part of another tattoo peeked over his trunks on his
left hip, the other part hidden under them. It was a total Baywatch moment.”
Their love is epic. But there are too many
things keeping them apart.
“How could you keep this from me, Lisa? If you had told me the first day I met
him, I would have avoided him like the plague. Nothing would have happened
between us.”
“I kept your secrets, too, Stella.”
Are Max and Stella strong enough to fight not
only for their love, but for their lives?
Author Bio
Hi, my name is
Teodora and I live in London with my husband Ted and my son Jason. I've been
writing ever since I can remember, but it became my full time job in 2010 when
I decided that everything else I've tried bores me to death and I have to do
what I've always wanted to do, but never had to guts to fully embrace. I've
been a journalist, an editor, a personal assistant and an interior designer
among other things, but as soon as the novelty of the new, exciting job wears
off, I always go back to writing. Being twitchy, impatient, loud and hasty are
not qualities that help a writer, because I have to sit alone, preferably
still, and write for most of the day, but I absolutely love it. It's the only
time that I'm truly at peace and the only thing I can do for more than ten
minutes at a time - my son has a bigger attention span than me.
When I'm procrastinating, I like to go to the gym, cook Italian meals (and eat
them), read, listen to rock music, watch indie movies and True Blood re-runs.
Or, in the worst case scenario, get beaten at every Wii game by a five year
old.
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