December Wedding
by Emelle
Gamble
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BLURB:
Molly
Harper is a movie star who fans think ‘has it all’. Cruz Morales is Molly’s
true love, and he hates the media intrusions into their life. Molly and Cruz
are going to have a baby. And throw a secret wedding for her brother Harry.
What could go wrong? Read DECEMBER WEDDING, the sequel to DUETS and MOLLY
HARPER, and find out if there really is a happy ever after for Molly and Cruz.
EXCERPT:
Molly Harper lay beside Cruz Morales in the darkened
bedroom, finally drowsy as the familiar night sounds floated in on the Santa
Barbara breezes. She was on her second set of counting backwards from 100 to
fall asleep, forty-two, forty-one…
“Will you marry me, Molly?” Cruz asked, his voice husky and
close.
“No.” She’d said no to him a hundred times the last year. He
told her last Christmas Eve he was going to ask her the last thing every night
for a year before he’d give up. Saying no had been easy. Though meaning it was
getting a little more difficult.
“Why not?”
“You know why not. I love you too much to subject you to a
wedding.”
Cruz sighed. “Lame reason, chica. No one I know would think
that’s a good reason.”
“They would if they remembered I’m an actress whose life
attracts the press like a tub of honey attracts bees. And bees sting. You know
what a zoo our wedding would turn out to be.”
“Not if we got married at the courthouse in Taos, or at your
home there. People can get hitched the same day they get the license in New
Mexico. I checked. We could keep it a secret.”
“A secret? You know
that’s impossible. Someone at the courthouse would tell their friend, who would
call the newspaper or People Magazine or tweet it to thirty thousand of their
closest friends.”
“Are you sure we’re still interesting to other people? I
think the gossip about us has cooled down. People seem more interested in royal
babies and the Jolie-Pitt clan now.”
“That’s true. There were only two camera crews outside the
restaurant where we ate last Friday.” Molly’s brain reran a few snippets of the
last two years, all recorded and available on the internet. Cruz struggling to
recover from the motorcycle accident that nearly killed him. Her movie star husband
leaving her for another woman. Her ex and the other woman having a baby.
Mother’s death.
All events which were played out on the front page of
newspapers and websites around the world.
“Please? I’ll put a ring on it tomorrow if you say yes.”
Molly took a rattling breath. Tonight’s discussion was quite
a bit more protracted than the three hundred plus nights before. “No, thank
you. I don’t need you to do anything more to prove you love me.”
In the midnight shadows, his generous mouth softened against
the hard curves of his face. “I do love you. I’ve always loved you. Every
single moment since I met you. Even when we were apart.”
“Did you, Cruz? Did you really even love me then?”
He touched her nose with his finger and cleared his throat,
which he always did when he recited a favorite poem.
“i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere I go you go, my
dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate
(for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my
world, my true)”
Molly’s eyes burned. “I melt when you recite love poetry,
Professor Cruz. I hope you don’t do in class; all those cute girls will be
trying to jump your bones.”
“I only recite for you, chica. I read e.e. cummings when I
was recovering in the hospital. He brought you back to me.”
“Oh please,” she whispered. “Let’s not talk about those
terrible times.”
“Why? They don’t matter now, they hardly mattered then. Once
we got back together, I mean, the past was gone.”
“The past is never gone. It’s on Facebook and Entertainment
Tonight.”
“No one looks at those things.”
That made her laugh, as he had hoped it would.
“Right. No one.” Molly embraced him, the sheets silky
smooth, while Cruz was warm and hard, and then rolled onto her other side.
AUTHOR INTERVIEW:
AUTHOR INTERVIEW:
1.How has being an author changed you?
It
taught me, more than any other job or career endeavor I’ve made, how hard work
at something you love is the very best way to spend your ‘work’ allocation of
time.
2.What was your favorite scene in the book?
I love the scene when Cruz
Morales gets ambushed by Molly Harper’s ex-husband, at the pool at the Beverly
Hills Hotel. I’ve visited that hotel and the area is gorgeous, and while Cruz
doesn’t behave very well, it was very satisfying.
3,What event triggered you to
become a writer? Any major inspirations?
Since I was a pre-writer, I
wanted to tell a story. Often, the same story…HA!...all about discovering who I
was and where I came from. Molly Harper, in these series of novels – DUETS –
MOLLY HARPER – and the final novella, DECEMBER WEDDING – does just that. It was
very satisfying for me to work that out through the character of Molly, a
beautiful and successful movie actress who knows that until she’s comfortable
in her own skin, she’s not going to be any good to herself.
4.What’s the very best thing
about being an author?
Telling a story. Touching people
in some way. It is unbelievably gratifying to read an email or review and hear
that someone cried or laughed or nodded their head and said, ‘this worked for
me’. It the gift that makes all the hard work worth it. Oh, and answering the
question, ‘what do you do?’ with the answer, “I’m a writer,” is also really,
really cool.
Thank you Elaine for hosting this
blog post. I hope your readers will share with me what genre they most like to
read … and why!
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Emelle Gamble
Bio : Emelle Gamble became a writer at an early age. As ‘M.L. Gamble,’ she
published several romantic suspense novels with Harlequin Intrigue. She is now
self-publishing and also working with Soul Mate Publishing who have released two romantic women’s fiction novels, Secret Sister, in July of 2013, and Dating
Cary Grant, an April 2014 release.
Always
intrigued by the words ‘what if’,
Gamble’s books feature an ordinary woman confronted with an
extraordinary situation. Emelle
celebrates the adventurous spirit of readers, and hopes each will enjoy the
exciting and surprising journeys her characters take.
Emelle
welcomes any reader interested in emailing her at emellegamble@aol.com and hopes they will visit her website,
www.EmelleGamble.com , her FaceBook
page: https://www.facebook.com/Emelle.Gamble or follow her on Twitter
@EmelleGamble.
Emelle will be awarding a $20 Amazon GC plus a digital
copy of December Wedding to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter
during this tour and the Review Tour, here. A
$25 Amazon GC will be awarded to a randomly drawn host also between the two
tours. Use the rafflecopter link below to enter. You can find her schedule at http://goddessfishpromotions.blogspot.com/2014/10/vbt-december-wedding-by-emelle-gamble.html
