What She Wanted
by Julie Anne
Lindsey
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GENRE: YA Romance
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BLURB:
It seems
Katy has been waiting for her eighteenth birthday all her life. Raised by a
grandfather who never got over losing Katy’s mother to cancer at a young age,
she’s dreamed of a life free of the burdens of her family’s tragedies. But just
before her birthday, she learns tragedy isn’t finished telling its story . . .
Before
she can begin her new life, Katy’s grandfather suffers a heart attack, a box of
her mother’s keepsakes, including a journal written to Katy while she was in
her mother’s womb, at his side. Believing the only thing her grandpa loves
enough to live for is her mother’s memory, Katy reads to him from the journal
every night at the hospital. Night after night, line after line, Katy begins to
see herself as her mother saw her in her dreams. Buoyed by her mother’s undying
love and conviction, Katy vows to make her mother’s sacrifice mean something
and promises to fulfill all her mother’s requests. Even the hard ones.
Especially those . . .
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EXCERPT
I swiveled in my desk chair, crossing too-long legs
under a too-short desk. Sweat ran over my temples, despite the wildly spinning
ceiling fan overhead. The brutal summer heat had dried up local creeks and
forced Mark, my grandpa, to turn off the air conditioner while he was at work.
He couldn’t afford to keep the house livable at these temperatures. He hated
the electric bills. Mark hated everything.
I fingered a stack of college applications and
tossed them at my best friend, Heidi. “I thought this summer would be amazing.
So far, it’s just hot. And depressing.”
She flopped back on my bed, scattering pillows and
raising the applications overhead for inspection. “It’s not too late to come
with me to Kent State. You have the grades, and they have a great film school.”
“Not this year.” Mark had conveniently forgotten to
sign my FAFSA or share any of the personal tax information I needed to finish
the financial aid paperwork and leave town. “Maybe next.”
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Julie Anne Lindsey is a multi-genre author who
writes the stories that keep her up at night. She’s a self-proclaimed nerd with
a penchant for words and proclivity for fun. Mother of three, wife to a sane
person and Ring Master at the Lindsey Circus, most days you'll find her online,
amped up on caffeine and wielding a book. Julie started writing to make people
smile. Someday she plans to change the world.
Julie is a member of the International Thriller
Writers (ITW), Sisters in Crime (SinC) and the Canton Writer’s Guild.
http://julieannelindsey.com/
https://twitter.com/JulieALindsey
https://www.facebook.com/JulieAnneLindseyAuthor
Buy the book:
https://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=9781601834881
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/what-she-wanted/id1089374813?mt=11
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9781601834881&c=books
https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/what-she-wanted-1
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/what-she-wanted-julie-anne-lindsey/1122857377
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and
RAFFLECOPTER CODE
Julie will be awarding a
digital copy of What She Wanted to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter
during the tour. Use the link below to enter.
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