Title: TWELVE DAYS
Author: Hope Waters
Publisher: Independent
Pages: 212
Genre: Romance

Synopsis

Zoey Blake is having a perfect holiday season. Finals are over and it’s time to head home for Christmas, but when she wins the Hartbreakers True Love contest to join them on their tour, she has a chance to follow her favorite band for twelve days — and twelve steamy nights.

Mackenzie has been a player since and joining Hartbreakers has only edged up his game, that is until he meets Zoey. She’s turned his world upside down and only she can make it right. Now all he has to do is convince her to stay with him forever. For a guy like Mack, that shouldn’t be too hard but it’s gonna take all he has and twelve days to win her true love.

Excerpt

“So this is your room?”

I nodded, hiking my backpack higher on my shoulder. I leaned up against the doorjamb, watching all the people running up and down the corridor as they settled into the hotel for the night.

Mack leaned against the wall, glanced at his phone and tried to stifle a sigh. “Tired?” I asked.

“Incredibly,” he said sheepishly.

“Why didn’t you take a nap this afternoon?” I asked.

“Because…I wanted to talk to you.”

I smiled. Mack wore his heart on his sleeve. He was a straight shooter and I admired that about him. You couldn’t dislike him either. “That’s sweet,” I said.

“Yeah,” he said and looked into my eyes. I met his gaze, not wanting to break the magic of this moment.  “Um, was…would you like to, you know, see more of each other while you are on tour with us?”

A pit started in my stomach. I wasn’t sure what I was most scared of. I was scared that Mack would hurt me emotionally. I was scared of leaving him behind after the tour was done. Or him using me and leaving me behind.

But most of all I was scared of falling for him. Scratch that. I had already fallen hard.

“Yeah, I’d like that,” I said.

He leaned into me and I met him halfway.

God, he was a good kisser.

Guest Post

Travelin’ Gal

The year was 1998 and everyone was looking forward to Y2K. There was a lot of fear and panic about computers, people were claiming planes were going to fall from the sky. Part of my family was planning to vacation in Hawaii and invited me to “end of the millennia” party in Hawaii, because while they weren’t buying into the panic, they theorized if anything did happen, oh well, we would be in Hawaii, which was a pretty good plan.

Except I was bouncing around the country in my station wagon, fresh off a bad break-up, I took my dog in the front seat sitting on top of my suitcase as I drove up 95 and out west on I-10. I was traveling for work, non-stop, living out of my suitcase. It sounds great, except for those crazy mall hours coupled with mall food. At one mall, they had TVs that played music and interviews. To this day, anytime I hear Ray Of Light by Madonna, I immediately feel the need to shout “I can help you over here” like I’m back at the register again.

I didn’t necessarily love working in a mall but I did love all the travel, moving around to trouble locations, fixing things up and moving on. Sleeping on a twin bed in a front room at staff housing was never great fun, but laughing at the crazy we all had is something I miss to this day.

After all that, I never got to Hawaii, though I visited almost every corner of this beautiful country. I instead bought myself a laptop and kept going, jotting down my ideas that turned into Twelve Days. As much as I want to scream when I hear certain songs from the turn of the millennia, they inspired me then. I just wanted to be flying down the road again, wind in my hair.

More than anything, I wanted a love story like Mack and Zoey. I got it, one day after my heart had healed after all that running. So now it’s time for me to share Mack and Zoey’s story with you, along with Josh and Nia and the rest of the gang.

I hope you enjoy it. Thanks so much to StoreyBook Reviews for having me by!

Thank you Hope for sharing a little bit about your life and how you came to write Twelve Days!

About the Author

Hope Waters has been writing romance for over thirty years, traveling the globe but finally finding true love and now lives in Florida with her family.

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