AUTHOR: Kerri Williams
TOUR DATES: September 16-20
RELEASE DATE: August 13, 2013
HOSTED BY: Book Geeks Unite
SYNOPSIS
If you had one chance to be with your soul mate, would you
fight for it?
Sometimes the hardest fight isn't finding love, sometimes
its fighting against the ticking clock of your life.
Stalked by the shadow of a foreboding disease, seventeen
year old, Harper Kennedy finds herself starting a new life in Albany Missouri.
With a ticking time bomb, a wall of quotes, a shell of a father and a brother
who has no one else, Harper tries to get life in order for those she may be
leaving behind.
But fate is cruel when it delivers temptation in the form of
Vaun Campbell into her life; Vaun who is kind and sweet and completely out of
her league on so many levels. How can Harper find love only to have it ripped
away so soon? How can she put Vaun, who has faced more than his own fair share
of loss and grief in the past, through all that again?
EXCERPT
In one
swift, deliberate movement I have her under me. My hands braced on either side
of her head; they look big compared to her petite face. Her long hair is spread
across the red blanket and I know I’ll keep that damn rug forever. I want to
tell her about my tattoo, about my mother, but not now. I study her, her wide
bright, blue eyes.
They’re most phenomenal in the world; like the colour of the Blue Jays in my mother’s nesting box. I gaze at her for the longest time, our breaths mingling and that in itself has me thinking how much more I want her. Not just as friends, screw friendship. I want her to be mine, to hold her, to kiss her, to keep safe. I don’t even realise I’m getting closer to her until she licks her lips, almost touching mine and I can see she can’t deny what she’s feeling any more than I can. As soon as her eyes flutter closed I close my lips down on her and taste the deliciousness of my blue bird.
They’re most phenomenal in the world; like the colour of the Blue Jays in my mother’s nesting box. I gaze at her for the longest time, our breaths mingling and that in itself has me thinking how much more I want her. Not just as friends, screw friendship. I want her to be mine, to hold her, to kiss her, to keep safe. I don’t even realise I’m getting closer to her until she licks her lips, almost touching mine and I can see she can’t deny what she’s feeling any more than I can. As soon as her eyes flutter closed I close my lips down on her and taste the deliciousness of my blue bird.
MEET
KERRI
Some might say I shouldn’t be alive today…I like to think
that I’m exactly where I should be! I’m a cancer survivor. A very lucky and
thankful survivor. I had to fight hard and go through more than most teenagers
and I hope I reflected some of the emotion into Harpers story. But firstly, let
me tell you a little about my fight against non-Hodgkin lymphoma. I was a
typical teenager, 11 years old and just started high school and liking boys. I
loved running and one day during a track run my groin began to hurt. Nothing
outrageously out of the norm for a runner who didn’t stretch well and I put it
down to a strain. I had a lingering cold, just like normal kids in the
mountains, but what wasn’t normal was the lump in my groin. At eleven I didn’t
know it shouldn’t be there. I thought it was just a gland, no biggy. I was very
wrong. I went on for weeks with this cold and antibiotics, I and my children
have been through them just this winter. The only difference was, this wasn’t
just a cold. My last visit to the doctor, he was placing me on stronger drugs
and asked if there was anything else bugging me and that’s when I said those
three dreadful words…’My lump hurts.’ You can imagine the look between my
mother and the doctor. From there it all happened quickly and was quite scary.
I was rushed after hours for an Ultrasound and then straight to the Hospital. I
didn’t even get to go home and grab Pyjamas, a book or anything. The very next
day I was shipped to Campbelltown Childrens Hospital for more tests. Four scans
and loads of needles later lying in a cold, hard hospital bed I remember my Dad
coming into the room, his eyes bloodshot and he was crying. That’s when I
learned I had two weeks to live. You couldn’t get much crappier odds then that.
I cry now thinking of my Dad. For my parents who had their own pain. As a
mother now, it’s more heartbreaking then going through it myself. I have no
idea why, but they started me on aggressive Chemo anyway, denial maybe, I don’t
know. It doesn’t matter now either, because it saved my life. I went through
endless days of being sick, I would get sick as soon as I entered the hospital
which was all in my head, but tell an 11 year old that. The smell for many
years still made me sick. Scans, needles, drips, doctors and nurses. Day in,
day out. That was my life and my monster. But you know what hurt me the most?
Losing my hair. Pft. Sounds ridiculous, right. But imagine a teenage girl with
long brown hair who attracted boys turning into a girl with no hair and was
dying. Yeah I had beat the clock, but essentially, that’s what I was…a dying
girl fighting for a little bit of normal. Needless to say, I beat that clock,
beat it to pulp. I have had a couple of scares since, but I’m still kicking it
strong and even showed all the specialist wrong by having two wonderful and
gorgeous girls of my own after they swore I would not be able to have children.
Although hubby thinks he is Superman and I let him. He is another story all
together, he is my Vaun. I met Michael when I was sixteen at a party and let’s
just say, from then on we have been living out a dream. He didn’t care about
odds, illness or my lack of child bearing capabilities, he wanted me. He loved
me. And so, here I am, surrounded by love, disease free and using it all in a
book for you to read. My fight against the monster and my survival with love is
all there for you to read mixed in with a great dash of fiction. Since writing
this I have found a beautiful boy who is fighting his own monster and his
family need our help. So I’m donating 50 cents in every e-book and $1.00 in
every print to go to Chase and his family for as long as it works. His story I
have added after mine. Show him the love too. I hope you enjoy my story and I
look forward to hearing your feedback and reviews. Love, Kez
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