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Raven by Ashley Suzanne
Release Date: 06/25/2014
Model: James Newman
Photographer: Don Sheppard - XopixO Photography
Cover Designer: Sommer Stein - Perfect Pear Creative Covers
SYNOPSIS:
If I would have known then what I know now.
If I would have known that having my heart broken at thirteen by my one and only friend, Garrett Rhodes, would never compare to the empty feeling at sixteen when I buried my mother.
If I would have known that changing schools in my senior year would throw all that back in my face.
Maybe … just maybe … I wouldn’t be in the hell storm I’m living in these days. Letting my past dictate my future, allowing the best of the best male MMA fighters bully me day in and day out and knowing no matter what I do, Garrett will always be the only man that understands me. I didn’t have to live this way. One day changed the course of my life forever.
Through all this mess, the one thing that I’ve found that keeps me centered … martial arts. And I’m damn good. If only someone would give me a chance to prove my worth.
All I can do now is make the best of it and try to not let the fight consume me.
Or has it already?
EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT:
Forgetting that
I’m only wearing a tank top and a pair of boy shorts, I lie on the warm sand
and take in the sun while waiting for Garrett to make it back. Closing my eyes and putting my arm over my
face, I don’t notice the shadow that’s probably cast over me when he’s hovering
above me. It’s his sharp intake of
breath that startles me back to reality.
Moving my arm and
squinting my eyes, I peek out at Garrett who looks lost in his own mind. “Why are you just standing there? You’re blocking my sun.”
“I just …
wow. You really grew up these last
couple years.” Taking a seat next to me,
I start thinking heavily about what he’s just said. What
does he mean that I’ve grown up? Did he expect me to stay thirteen forever? I mean, I turned fourteen a few days after he
left, but how much can one really grow in such a short amount of time?
“What are you
talking about?”
“Have you looked
at yourself lately?”
“Every morning
when I get ready.”
“Well, maybe it’s
me that’s just now looking at you.”
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