Book Title: Always You
Author: Shilpa Mudiganti
Genre: Adult, Contemporary Romance
Publisher: InkSpell Publishing
Publication Date: March 6th 2012
Format: eBook, Paperback, Kindle
Book Synopsis:
Lyla had to move on. With Nick, her fiancé. So, what if she cannot
seem to either forget or forgive Alex, the modern day Casanova who broke her
heart. She will try again. Just as she had done for the last 5 years.
What Lyla did not know was all that Alex wanted in those five
years was her. Because the Casanova had fallen in love. Five years back, when
Alex met a grieving Lyla at his friend Andrew's grave, the world had blurred in
the background. He fell deeply in love. Yet, Alex was harboring a secret that,
if known, would destroy his relationship with Lyla and it did.
But now, fate brought them together in such a way that they had no
option but to remain dangerously close - dangerous enough for Lyla to fall in
love with him again. How can she?, she argues. Not after what she knows about
Alex? What he did to Andrew?
It is true Alex seemed different. Changed. And attractive enough
to defeat her defense against their dark past. But is it enough? What will
happen when two broken people with a past come together? Can they forgive or
heal?
Book Excerpt
After the hour-long meeting, Alex sat in the conference room
alone, long after his team had left for their coffee break. Today he touched
Lyla again…his Lyla. He had casually glanced up from his laptop when she walked
in unannounced into the room. To say he was stunned was an understatement. It
had been five years, two months and sixteen days since he last saw her, and she
looked as desirable as always, perhaps a bit more, considering how long he had
waited impatiently for the day he’d see her again.
In a white
blouse with puffy sleeves and black skirt hugging her figure intimately, she
looked lovely and vulnerable. He did not miss the grimace in her face the
moment she laid eyes on him but the look of recognition in her deep green eyes
made him alive in a way he felt nowhere else.
What he
wanted to do was take her in his arms, and kiss her soft, velvety lips, but he
knew how impossible that would have been. Neither the surroundings nor their
past would allow that.
He had lost
her five years ago and had failed to win her back. None of his calls and
letters was answered. Ever. After one year of relentless pursuit, he had given
up and quietly acknowledged Lyla would be his dream woman forever.
It was not
his nature to share how difficult it was for him to lose her. No one expected
that from him. After all, he was Alexander Knights, the man who could have any
woman he wanted. But he terribly missed her each day and his body ached for her
closeness each night. Yet she wouldn’t come to him because of one mistake, the
guilt of which he could never forget.
He knew it
was a huge mistake, but she had to forgive him before he could think of ever
having a relationship with her again. He never knew it would take so long.
However, he tried to move ahead and thought he had safely tucked her in to a
corner of his heart. Seeing her today proved he hadn’t, not when she stood
across the room from him, her dark lush hair brushing her soft cheeks?
His stomach
muscles clenched as he replayed the image of her shaking hands with everyone in
the room, and how she had hesitantly shook his. As their hands connected, he
had felt a tremor pass through her. Had she felt it too? The longing, the pain,
the love? Maybe she had. Maybe there was a chance for them yet.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Shilpa
Mudiganti Mirza grew up making up stories in her head. Starting with innocent
babbling, genre of her stories changed with lessons growing up teaches us all.
She thought life would be all about her stories until she completed her
technical degree. Security of an IT job lured her leaving her stories to
continue brew up in her head. Yet soon she had to fall in step with what fate
had planned for her and she penned her first romance novella, Always You to be published
by Inkspell Publishing. There has been no looking back since then. Juggling her
day job as an IT geek, she has penned down her pet project, an exciting fantasy
story of lions and wolves which, to her utter delight, is going to see the
light of the day early next year. She says you would fall in love with her wonderful
hero and heroine.
When she has
time to breathe, she spends time blogging, connecting with her readers and
spending time with her loving husband. She lives at Ridgefield Park, New Jersey.
You can connect with her at:
And if you
have time to spare, she would be delighted to have you on her blog: www.smmirza.blogspot.com.
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