Hot as Blazes: Burned and Twice Shy. On this week’s Weekend Writing Warriors, I’m finishing the first chapter of my new release.
After some trouble in California, Jo Mercer’s pro surfing career has tanked. She’s returned home with a secret and just finished a call to the probation office in California. The warm Atlantic calls her to feel its warm embrace.
After grabbing her surfboard, she charged up tall dunes through wild
sea oats and time slowed. She dashed through the breakwater, paddled out and straddled her board.
After doing her best to honor her father’s memory by earning a degree and ranking in the surfing world—she trusted an asshole.
Would her dad still be proud of her, was Ray?
By trying to please everyone, she’d lost sight of what she wanted. The sight of Ray left her with a hollow ache for a man she’d never know beyond friendship. He’d never seen her as anything but a friend and Bobby’s sister.
She didn’t expect that to change. Plus, after being burned
in California, she didn’t trust anyone with her heart.
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Heartbreaking Dani! But she is still standing! What an awesome character. I am now the proud owner of a copy of this story!
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I could feel the ocean under her board. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks Paula!
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At least she seems to have taken away some hard-earned self knowledge, about not being such a people pleaser. Enjoyed the insight into her character – great snippet!
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Thanks Veronica.
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Survive and thrive. That’s my motto. So she’s learned a little late. No biggie. She’ll move on right now. Love her.
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