Book Blitz:
Before We
Say Goodbye
by Julie MacLennan
#contemporary #fiction #romance #ebook
Blurb:
Four
strangers are brought together who share one thing in common: they've reached a
pivotal moment in their lives and after this journey nothing will ever be the
same again. From the sorrow which follows joy, the love which turns to
betrayal, rejection which finally finds the door to acceptance, each will
discover that the only journey which really matters is the one which leads to
survival.
Excerpt:
‘I’m
leaving you!’
The
young woman at the end of the phone screamed in fury as Damien Hunt calmly rose
from his desk and walked towards the window.
The
late afternoon sun was slipping silently below the horizon in a last brilliant
blaze of crimson defiance. The irony was not lost on him as he witnessed the
magnificent rays disappearing from sight at exactly the same moment as Stella
Milner was doing her best to elicit a response – any response – from him.
‘Do
you hear me? Are you even listening? What’s the matter with you?’
She
was almost hysterical now, and he could tell that his continued refusal to
answer her was only inflaming an already volatile situation. But not for the
first time, he recognised it as his escape route and said nothing.
‘Damien?
Damien! Will you answer me?’
The
silence on the line was deafening and Damien could hear her start to cry.
He
closed his eyes. There was a part of him which felt guilty, responsible for the
situation in which they now found themselves. But only a part of him.
Mostly
what he felt was a dreadful and overwhelming weariness.
It
was a feeling which was unfamiliar and yet it had crept up on him lately,
invading his thoughts during random moments and making him doubt everything.
Including himself.
And
now it was telling him that there was no point in prolonging this conversation.
He
let the phone fall to his side as Stella continued to rage against him.
They
both knew that she was right. She wanted only what she deserved. There was only
one problem.
He
couldn’t give it to her.
Couldn’t
give her the commitment and the stability that she hadn’t cared about in the
beginning but now seemed to crave. He couldn’t give it, and more importantly he
didn’t want to give it. Not to her. Not to anyone. Not ever.
Her
voice became louder and he reluctantly raised the phone to his ear again.
‘Can’t
you even speak to me now, Damien? What do you think I am? Some little tramp? A
one night stand? You really think that you’re better than me, don’t you,
Damien?’
Still
he remained silent.
When
she spoke again, her voice was lower and she sounded more in control.
‘Okay,
if you won’t speak to me on the phone, you leave me no choice. We’ll just have
to have this conversation in front of everyone in your office. I’m coming
round.’
Buy links:
Tirgearr
Publishing: http://www.tirgearrpublishing.com/authors/MacLennan_Julie/before-we-say-goodbye.htm
Author Bio:
Julie
MacLennan lives and works in Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.
This
is her first published novel although she has been writing for as long as she
can remember.
Some
of her earliest memories are of sitting by her grandfather’s chair and being fascinated
by the books he read. Later, encouraged by her grandmother’s gift for writing
and her mother’s imagination, she began to transfer her own short stories and
poetry to paper.
Her
shared love of football with her father inspired her to write the poem
“Farewell, Our Friend” which was read out and televised around the world at
George Best’s funeral in late 2005.
More
recently, she was honoured to be asked by the Royal British Legion if they
could use another of her poems, “The Promise”, as part of their commemoration
of the First World War.
She
is now working on her second novel.
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