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Today we're starting excerpts from Rest Thy Head. I'll give you a blurb and then I'll do the excerpt.
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Blurb:
Running away from a fiancé who betrayed her, Peyton O’Malley finds employment at a beautiful mountain inn called Rest Thy Head. She didn’t expect to live in the haunted room or to fall for the inn’s owner, a fire-scarred, war veteran who uses the inn to hide away from the world. She didn’t expect her sister to show up at Rest Thy Head either, much less her formidable mother.
Last Week:
Now, thanks to the aid of a friendly ghost, Peyton has a shot at true love, and so does her sister Ashley, provided the guys cooperate of course!
Excerpt:
This Week:
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Today we're starting excerpts from Rest Thy Head. I'll give you a blurb and then I'll do the excerpt.
Buy Link:http://amzn.to/1PDbyPX
Blurb:
Running away from a fiancé who betrayed her, Peyton O’Malley finds employment at a beautiful mountain inn called Rest Thy Head. She didn’t expect to live in the haunted room or to fall for the inn’s owner, a fire-scarred, war veteran who uses the inn to hide away from the world. She didn’t expect her sister to show up at Rest Thy Head either, much less her formidable mother.
Last Week:
Now, thanks to the aid of a friendly ghost, Peyton has a shot at true love, and so does her sister Ashley, provided the guys cooperate of course!
Excerpt:
Eleanor glanced at her watch. “It’s three, and we have to meet Ashley at three thirty; we’d better get going.”
Peyton picked up her purse, which sat beside an antique trunk her mother used as a coffee table. It had belonged to some famous Civil War general, a fact her mother repeated over and over to anyone who visited them. Eleanor hadn’t come right out and said so, but she had given Drew’s parents the impression her family was related to the famous general. Peyton sighed. “Mother, I really want Ashley to be in the wedding. Be nice to her.”
Peyton picked up her purse, which sat beside an antique trunk her mother used as a coffee table. It had belonged to some famous Civil War general, a fact her mother repeated over and over to anyone who visited them. Eleanor hadn’t come right out and said so, but she had given Drew’s parents the impression her family was related to the famous general. Peyton sighed. “Mother, I really want Ashley to be in the wedding. Be nice to her.”
“I admire your loyalty to your sister, but frankly, I think it’s in poor taste to let her be a bridesmaid.”
“I wanted her to be the maid of honor, but thanks to you she refused when I asked her,” Peyton complained with a scowl.
“I wanted her to be the maid of honor, but thanks to you she refused when I asked her,” Peyton complained with a scowl.
This Week:
A pained expression came to rest on her mother’s face. “I’m so tired of having to explain things to a daughter who should understand but refuses to do so. The Roberts would not appreciate someone like Ashley serving as your maid of honor. Be grateful you have Roberta to fall back on.”
“Roberta is Drew’s sister, not mine,” Peyton cried. “I don’t even like her.”
“She’ll grow on you. Now, we’d better hurry.”
Peyton ran to put the tablecloth on the dining room table with her other wedding gifts. Pausing for a moment, she stroked the table’s smooth, gleaming surface.
“Roberta is Drew’s sister, not mine,” Peyton cried. “I don’t even like her.”
“She’ll grow on you. Now, we’d better hurry.”
Peyton ran to put the tablecloth on the dining room table with her other wedding gifts. Pausing for a moment, she stroked the table’s smooth, gleaming surface.
Mom needs to butt the heck out and get over herself. Poor Payton is going to have to take a stand or let her mother run her marriage.
ReplyDeleteRelatives, especially Mothers must let their children grow up and make decisions on their own.
ReplyDeleteRealistic snippet, Elaine.
I picture Rest They Head as similar to The Overlook Hotel from the Shining. Not because of the snippet so much as the blurb.
ReplyDeleteProblems, problems, problems...and likely to get worse after the wedding, I'm thinking! Interesting snippet!
ReplyDeleteOh yuck, this woman will throw her own daughter under the bus to get the approval of these people. This is not going well.
ReplyDeleteHer mom is such a piece of work!
ReplyDeletePoor Peyton. If her future in-laws are that disapproving it doesn't bode well for her marriage.
ReplyDeleteYeesh, I agree with Nancy –– Mom needs to get over herself!
ReplyDeleteIf you have to cut out someone you love about to join a new family... that family isn't worth it! Run while you still can, Peyton!
ReplyDeleteI really don't like her mother. She needs to butt out.
ReplyDeleteThis is her wedding and not her mother's. It is killing me to know what is so wrong about her sister that she can't be in the wedding!
ReplyDeletewhat a domineering, overbearing woman her mother is - and I wonder what the poor sister's done to incur her displeasure.
ReplyDeleteIt's easy for us to tell Peyton what to do--tell her mother to butt out. But we don't know the history, what's so bad about her sister, why Mom is pushing Peyton to choose someone else as a bridesmaid. That will make me want to read more to find out.
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