TWILIGHT'S ENCORE
by Jacquie Biggar
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BLURB:
Ty Garrett fell in love with Katy
Fowler from the moment they'd met. When her father’s betrayal yank the young
couple apart, Ty becomes bitter.
After a decade away, Katy returns to
Tidal Falls with plans to get married in her family's theatre. But she hadn't
expected to run into Ty Garrett, the boy she'd never forgotten.
When unseen forces endanger their
lives, can Ty save Katy and win back her love, or is it too late for these two
star-crossed lovers?
EXCERPT:
On
the steps of the theatre stood an angel gilded in white and gold. Her hair
glittered like spun silk in the morning sun, while the filmy white dress she
wore made him think of all kinds of sin. For once in his life, Ty Garrett was
struck silent. He knew seeing Katy again would be hard, he just hadn’t realized
how cruel fate could be.
“Ty.
I should have guessed.”
He
hadn’t expected her to jump into his arms—though she’d seemed quite happy to do
just that with Jared—but would it kill her to at least pretend she was glad to
see him?
“You’re
late.”
Apparently
it would.
“Well
you know me, sugar. Laggard that I am, getting up before noon is something of a
stretch.” If she wanted to think the worst, he didn’t mind playing along.
“It’s
been a long time, Ty. You look… older.” She brushed an impenetrable glance over
him, rubbing at already raw emotions.
“You
don’t. You look like the same spoiled teenage brat you were the last time you
stood on those stairs.”
No
way in hell was he going to admit seeing her again affected him. He’d learned
his lesson. Give her an inch, and she’d take a mile.
Katy
smiled—a Cheshire cat kind of smile—as though she knew anyway.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
I thought I’d share with you
the beginning of my love affair with writing.
Normally, procrastination is
my enemy. I like to get done whatever it is, as soon as I can, so that I don’t
have to worry about it any more.
In school I worked hard to
stay in the top ten every year. So when I came down sick with the measles and
missed two weeks of grade nine, I was devastated. How was I ever going to catch
up? I had less than a week to write a compelling story for Language Arts or get
a failing mark.
Angry and frustrated, I sat
in our living room, pen and paper in hand, staring at a bright yellow bouquet
of cheerful looking daffodils. I wanted to hurl them across the room. It wasn’t
fair. Why was I being punished for getting sick?
But then an idea popped into
my head. A silly, farcical story. If the teacher wanted an essay, fine, I’d
give him one. And so, Count Daffodil, was born. After the first paragraph the
words flowed quicker, I could see the scene in my head and needed to get it
down on paper. (Sound familiar?) I spent the rest of the day writing, and by
the end of the night I had my story.
The next day I turned it in
and immediately felt ill all over again. It was dumb. The teacher was going to
hate it. I’d be a laughing stock. Funny how easy you can build something up to
catastrophic proportions when you lack self-confidence.
We had to wait two weeks for
the results. I was on tenterhooks the entire time. Sure that my mom would blow
a gasket because I’d goofed instead of giving it my best shot.
Then came the big day.
I was scared to look.
Finally, I couldn’t take it anymore and turned to the last page. These were my
teacher’s words:
I’m glad I didn’t read this
at night. It’s been a while since I was so enthralled with a story. Very
professionally done. The suspense, the ending, the style was excellent. I think
I’ll read it to the other classes. Very impressive.
Not only did he read it to
the other grade nines, he read it over the intercom to the entire school!
Because of Mr. Thomas and a
hapless bouquet of sunny daffodils, a writer was born.
Jacquie's first book, Tidal
Falls, a romantic suspense novel about second chances, released September of
2014.
Jacquie Biggar
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