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Blurb
THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER
I never forgot her. Not for
one minute. Not from the last time I saw her, at seventeen, to today. I
measured all women against her and all women came up short.
But being with her was unfeasible in high school, and it's taboo now.
I see her sometimes, but I've never spoken to her. She runs, or I run. We're in
the same town, on the same block, in the same building, and the gulf between us
is just too wide to cross.
Until tonight.
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He was my high school crush, back when I lived in a world that didn't want me.
He was the perfect boy, and I was the outcast kid from the other side of town.
And when he held my hand I thought I could fit in, just a little. I thought I
could be his and he could be mine.
Then he left, and my life fell apart.
Now we are the king and queen of opposite sides of Hollywood. And we haven't
spoken a word to each other.
Until tonight.
Excerpt
I
stroked his hair, waist deep in peace, all worry gone for the moment, and
floating in no more than an ocean of gratitude. I must have been more
vulnerable than I realized, or he’d reopened some wound with his kindness,
because though my sweet reverie stayed, as the minutes passed, a layer of need
fitted itself on top of it.
I
needed to tell him, if not the details, the outlines of who I was.
“I
want you to know,” I whispered, starting somewhere small, then everything I
didn’t want to say spilled out. “I have stuff. I’ve never been to jail, but you
know, it’s stuff, and it’s ugly, and it scares me. Because, I mean, you’re so
perfect, and I’m… I’m just a mess. I’m not whole. I’m a bunch of pieces of a
person I cobbled together.” My eyes got wet when I thought of the comparisons
between us and that picture in my silverware drawer. “So if you have to move on
when you realize that, I’ll understand. You have an image, and if anyone
understands protecting a career, it’s me. I mean, I’ll be mad, don’t get that
wrong, but also.” I swallowed and blinked, shifting my head so he wouldn’t feel
the tear on his forehead. “I won’t blame you.”
I
waited for an answer. Anything. A change in position or a word on any subject.
The weather. Sports. Something. But all he did was breathe.
I
smiled so wide, tears fell into my mouth. He was sleeping.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CD Reiss
CD Reiss is a USA Today and Amazon bestseller. She still
has to chop wood and carry water, which was buried in the fine print. Her
lawyer is working it out with God but in the meantime, if you call and she
doesn’t pick up, she’s at the well, hauling buckets.
Born in New York City, she moved to Hollywood, California
to get her master’s degree in screenwriting from USC. In case you want to know,
that went nowhere, but it did embed TV story structure in her head well enough
for her to take a big risk on a TV series structured erotic series called Songs
of Submission. It’s about a kinky billionaire hung up on his ex-wife, an
ingenue singer with a wisecracking mouth; art, music and sin in the city of Los
Angeles.
Critics have dubbed the books “poetic,” “literary,” and
“hauntingly atmospheric,” which is flattering enough for her to put it in a
bio, but embarrassing enough for her not to tell her husband, or he might think
she’s some sort of braggart who’s too good to give the toilets a once-over
every couple of weeks or chop a cord of wood.
If you meet her in person, you should call her Christine.
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