Title: Shelter You
Author: Alice Montalvo-Tribue
Expected Release: January 2014
Synopsis
She's mine.
That was my first thought when I held my baby in my arms at seventeen.
I didn't care that I'd already promised to give her to a wealthy family.
She is mine.
I ran away from that hospital, from that family, from the very life I
knew. My plan was to start my life over with what little money I (have/had?),
determined to make something of myself despite the odds.
Then Logan Tate entered my life.
Gorgeous and controlling, he claimed he was trying to help me, and
that he didn't care that I was another teenage pregnancy story.
But I don't trust him. I don't trust anyone. And if Logan knew the
real secrets and lies I was keeping inside, he wouldn't dare try to shelter me.
Excerpt
I look up at her with tears in my eyes. If not for this kind woman,
I’d be handing Lily over to her adoptive parents in a matter of hours. It may
seem cruel of me to have promised to give my baby away to a couple who
desperately wants one and then to just pick up and run away, but none of this
was my choice.
Four months before my high school graduation I found out that I was
pregnant, as you could probably imagine for a seventeen year old to hear that
she’s going to become a mother is shocking and scary. So I did what I thought
would be the right thing, I went to my parents and asked for there help. Their
solution? Hide my pregnancy until after graduation and then keep me a virtual
prisoner in my own home until I gave birth.
When I expressed to them my desire to keep my child they gave me an
ultimatum, give the baby up for adoption, or keep the baby but leave their
house with absolutely no financial help from them. What else could I have done?
I had no choice but to agree to their demands and I thought I could do it. I
thought I could go through with it until I held her, my Lily, and I knew that
giving her away would literally kill me—would make it difficult to go on with
the knowledge that she was out there in the world somewhere, living a life
apart from mine. Because of this, I made her a promise and I’ll die before I
break that promise.
About the Author
Alice Montalvo-Tribue lives with her husband and daughter in New
Jersey. She has a bachelors degree in communications and is currently working
on her masters degree. She spends most of her free time reading, writing, and
when the weather permits lounging out on a beach.
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