Are you
ready for a different kind of love story?
Meet Michael
& Laine in this Hollywood themed second chance romance by CD Reiss!
NOW
AVAILABLE!
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Blurb
ONE movie star on the cusp
of greatness
ONE broken girl who touched
him
TEN years to forget her
A MILLION stories in
Hollywood
I am not hurt.
I don’t need a second chance with him, or a life I thought I had.
While he was out forgetting me to become a movie star, I was building a career
out of nothing. A career as a paparazzi, but a career. For a foster kid who
bounced around every home in Los Angeles, that wasn’t easy.
This camera is all I have.
He’s nothing to me. Every time I take his picture and sell it, I remind myself
that I did it all without him or his approval, his cinnamon smell or his clear
green eyes. He lights up the screen like a celestial body, but he’s nothing but
a paycheck to me.
He can throw my camera off a balcony, and nothing has to change. We can stay
king and queen of the same city, and different worlds.
Except this is Hollywood, and here, anything can happen.
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.
GIVEAWAY
& NOTE FROM AUTHOR
I am so
happy with the response to Shuttergirl, and I cannot wait to send
Michael and
Laine
out into the world, because who doesn’t swoon
over a second chance at love?
It’s a
new genre for me, and I’m exploding with excitement, so I’ve dropped some fantastic
reasons for readers to get the book right
away.
TREAT
YOURSELF LIKE A MOVIE STAR!
$500 Spa
Gift Card
If you
could get an hour, or ten away from the daily grind of paparazzi and interviews
(or the
job and
kids), what would you do?
right now
sounds better than sex?
Maybe
you’d bring a friend or two, or maybe you’d just get a manipedi when you wanted
one.
Because the life of a megastar ain’t for the
weak-willed or lazy, and running from paparazzi
can really wear down a girl’s nails.
Woodhouse
Spas are no joke. They’re all over the country and they’re….sigh. Fabulous. But
if
you don’t
live near one, we can do Burke Williams, Halcyon Days or Red Door.
HOW TO ENTER
Take the fun SHUTTERGIRL READER QUIZ!
The link
to the quiz is in the back of the book, and yes, that’s the ONLY place to find it!
There
are bonus
questions relating to Jonathan and Antonio for extra prizes. You have until
June 3rd
to enter! That gives you a solid two weeks to
read the book and get your chance at a $500
movie
star spa treatment!
If you
are a paperback reader, email me and we’ll work it out .
