On this week’s Weekend Writing Warriors, I’m continuing this week with a snippet from my newest release Hot as Blazes.
After some trouble in California, Jo Mercer’s pro surfing career has tanked. She has just arrived home at the oceanfront beach house where she grew up. Ray, her brother’s best friend, and her secret crush has returned from surfing and has racked his board and spied Jo. Last week we ended with: “I was beginning to think I’d never see you again.”
“Me too.” She avoided his gaze as tears welled.
He tamed a wavy strand of her hair with gentle fingers. “Figured you would have cut it by now.”
The sensual gesture set off a resurgence of feelings she didn’t want to revisit. Hope welled in her chest, but she crushed it with memories of past heartache. He’d never see her as a woman. “Nope, still Bobby’s tomboy sister.”
“I never saw you that way, Jo.” His gaze softened with his tone. He’d always had the ability to strip her of pretense with barely a word.
She fought for control.
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Dani Jace. Romance Author 
They’ve both changed over the years and you’ve shown this in a subtle way. Nifty snippet. I feel the ocean breeze and conflicted emotions.
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Thanks Charmaine. They both have secrets.
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emotional doozy. I can sense them still drawn to one another. awesome snippet
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Thanks, Michelle. I’m glad what I was trying to convey really came across to the reader.
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He says that now, but I think he’ll have to prove it to her as they spend more time together.
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He’s ready 😉 He’s been waiting a long time!
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“He’d always had the ability to strip her of pretense with barely a word.” What an awesome sentence!
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Thanks Kim, it’s one of my favorite lines and really conveys how she feels about him.
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She is really in trouble then!
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Yay for Ray, I like where this is all going. Love the way you write romances 🙂 Another excellent excerpt!
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Aww, thanks Veronica, you made my week, actually my month!
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Nice tension in few words. Well done!
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Thanks Nancy!
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~long exhale~ Wonderful, Dani. The scene is so tender and so candid. You’ve let the reader into her mind and her heart. Well, almost– Great job hinting at heartache in her past. Was it him? Nice job of infusing some intrigue, too. 🙂
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Wow! Thanks! My intentions for this scene have been met. 🙂
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I like how he upsets her expectation of how he saw her.
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Thanks Ed!
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I like how her emotions jump about as if her heart was on a trampoline… a giddy bounce then a stomach churning drop, then forced up again… Very real dialogue, and very sweet.
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Thanks so much!
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