Come Back To Texas
(Twelve Beats In A Bar #1)
by K.K. Hendin
Publication Date: August 18th 2014
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult
Synopsis:
Everyone thought
we’d be the ones who made it through high school. The ones who’d get married
and stay married forever. The example of how young love can work.
We thought so, too.
Too bad life had
other plans.
It’s been three
years since Hayley and Nate broke each other’s hearts. Three years, and a lot
has changed. Hayley’s a freshman in Bushwick University, and the only things
keeping her sane are stress baking, and her a cappella group, Twelve Beats in a
Bar.
Nate’s a Marine,
stationed in Afghanistan. The only thing that’s keeping him sane is the last
picture he has of him and Hayley, and the hope that maybe when the hell of
deployment is over, he can find her again and apologize.
One explosion will
change everything.
When a bomb kills
all of Nate’s unit, leaving him missing a leg and eyesight in one eye, he’s
sent back home to Texas.Texas, where he loved Hayley more than
he could possibly imagine ever loving anyone else.
With seemingly
endless amounts of free time and needing something to distract himself, Nate
starts making YouTube videos, imploring Hayley to come back to
him, and come back to Texas.
Hayley’s life is
wrapped around the Beats, making sure she doesn’t flunk out of biology class,
and babysitting Ohio’s smallest monster, Brandon. She doesn’t want to admit it,
but she misses Nate more than anything.
It’s too bad she
doesn’t know just how much he misses her, too…
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Excerpt from Come Back To Texas
He turned around, and his
eyes connected to mine. “Hey!” he called. “You!”
My eyes widened. “Me?” I
pointed to myself.
“Yeah.” He was far enough
away that he was calling. “What’s your name?”
Why was he talking to me?
Was this some kind of joke? I glanced nervously at Josh, trying to see if this
was for real. I couldn’t tell.
“Hayley,” I said quietly-
loud enough for him to hear if he was listening close enough, but quiet enough
that I could deny I was talking to him if I needed to.
“Hayley!” he called back,
grinning. “What’s your stance on ice cream? Positive or negative?”
“Why?”
“For science.”
“What kind of science?”
“Does it matter?”
“Well, if it’s for curing
cancer or something, I’ll tell you the truth. If it’s for something else, I
might not.”
“You would lie to
science?”
“You can’t lie to
science,” I said. “Science isn’t a person.”
“Yeah, it is,” Josh said.
“Science is the skeleton in the lab.”
“I thought his name was
Fred.”
“His full name is Fred
Skeleton Montgomery FisherHell the Twelfth,” Harrison said. “But I wasn’t
actually talking about him. C’mon, Hayley. How do you feel about ice cream?”
“If I tell you, will you
let me do my homework?”
“Deal.”
“I feel positive about ice
cream.”
“Yes!” crowed Harrison.
“One more question.”
“No.” I tried to bury my
grin as I bent my head down to concentrate on my English assignment.
“Pleeeeeease, Hayley.”
“You said you’d let me do
my homework after the ice cream question.”
“But science!”
“No.”
“You’re a tough one,” he
said, standing up. Wait. What was going on? Where was he going?
The next thing I knew, he
was standing above me, blocking the sunlight completely. “You’re blocking my
sun,” I said, not looking up from my homework.
“What is science going to
do without your answer?” he said, leaning down toward me. “It’s going to cry itself
to sleep tonight because you don’t care enough to answer the question.”
“You’re crazy, you know,”
I said, trying not to giggle. “Maybe you should talk to science about your
feelings.”
“If I’m that crazy,
talking to science would only make things worse.”
Huh. That actually made
sense.
I rolled my eyes. “Okay,
science’s best friend. What’s the second question?”
“How do you feel about Rocky
Road ice cream?”
“I like it.”
“A lot or a little?”
“What does it matter?”
“Well, those morons over
there claim loving Rocky Road is unnatural.”
“You should find new
friends,” I said.
About the Author
KK Hendin's real life ambition is to become a pink fluffy unicorn who
dances with rainbows. But the schooling for that is all sorts of complicated,
so until that gets sorted out, she'll just write. Preferably things with angst
and love. And things that require chocolate.
She spends way too much time on Twitter (@kkhendin), and rambles on occasion
over at www.kkhendinwrites.blogspot.com.
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Come Back to Texas sounds like a great love story sure to bring tears to my eyes.
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