Love
Waltzes In
By:
Alana Albertson
Blurb
To her
millions of fans, ballroom champion Selena Marcil seems to have the
perfect life: a great dance partner, a hit reality show, and
celebrity perks. But underneath the glamorous ball gowns, Selena
longs to find someone to share her life with when the stage lights
dim.
Selena’s
childhood sweetheart, Bret Lord, hung up his dance shoes after
winning two national titles with her as a teenager, and enlisted in
the United States Marine Corps. He never saw his former fiancée
again, except on television and on the cover of men’s magazines.
Ten years and three deployments later, Bret gets an offer to audition
for Selena’s dance show. When the Marine Corps gives him temporary
leave to appear on the series, Bret can’t refuse the quick cash
that will enable him to provide financially for the widow of his
buddy, even if it does mean coming face to face with his past.
When
Bret shows up at her national championship, Selena is shocked. For
years she searched for him to no avail. After spending time with
Bret, Selena realizes despite their past romance, they have no
future. He has no desire to live under a spotlight and she has no
desire to leave it. Can Selena and Bret recognize when Love Waltzes
In?
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Alana
Albertson is the former President of both Romance Writers of
Americas’s Young Adult and Chick Lit chapters and the founder
of Academe Advantage, a college admissions & test preparation
company. Alana Albertson holds a Masters of Education from Harvard
University and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Stanford
University. A recovering professional ballroom dancer, Alana
currently writes contemporary romance and young adult fiction. She
lives in San Diego, California, with her husband, two young sons, and
four dogs. When she’s not spending her time needlepointing,
dancing, or saving dogs from high kill shelters through Pugs N
Roses, the rescue she founded, she can be found watching episodes of
House Hunters, Homeland, or Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the
Team.
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Excerpt
– Love Waltzes In – Short:
Staff
Sergeant Bret Lord sat on the dirty floor of his tent, going through
the day’s mail: the latest Men’s Fitness magazine from his
sister, a care package from his mom. He ripped open the
package—socks, lip balm, sunflower seeds, and a thin letter that
contained an old magazine clipping.
Dear
Bret,
I miss
you very much. Benny asked me to send you this article. I really wish
you would consider his offer. Please stay safe.
Love,
Mom
He
swallowed hard. A neon sticky pressed on the wrinkled page had a note
scrawled on it from his former master dance coach.
Bret,
m’boy,
We’ll
make it worth your time.
Cheers,
Benny.
Thumbing
the edge of the article, Bret stared at the sixteen-year-old boy in
the picture and could barely recognize himself. His shoulder length,
wavy blond hair was slicked back, not shorn in a “high and tight”
like his current haircut. No signs of the tattoos or muscles that
currently defined his body. Golden skin stained from a bottle, not
the harsh sun of Iraq. His arms were wrapped around a gorgeous, curvy
young girl with long jet-black hair. The jade Latin gown she wore
matched the color of her almond-shaped eyes.
Bret
tossed the article aside and removed his nine-mil pistol from his
holster to clean it.
Lance
Corporal Hernandez walked by Bret and snatched the article off his
cot. After staring at it, Hernandez’s face brightened.
“Hey,
Staff Sergeant, this you?”
“No,
it’s my clone who’s also named Bret Lord.” Bret slid the rail
back on his weapon and began disassembling it.
“Staff
Sergeant, you know Selena Marcil? Did you hit that?”
“Shut
up, Hernandez, or the one getting hit will be you—with the butt
stock of my rifle.” Bret grabbed the paper out of Hernandez’s
hands, and smacked him on the side of the head. The kid didn’t
flinch.
“Staff
Sergeant Twinkle Toes. Hey—can you hook me up with Selena? I’ll
be her boy toy. I love her. Man, she’s smoking. Has the nicest ass.
Not like all those skinny, Russian chicks on that show.” He nodded
to himself with an eyebrow dancing. “Selena’s on my list. She’s
Latina, too. We’d be perfect together. What was she doing with a
gringo like you?”
“Hernandez,
you’re way out of line.” Bret reassembled his pistol.
“My
bad, Staff Sergeant.”
Bret
grabbed the article, his pack, and his rifle. It was impossible to
get some privacy in the tent. His only option was to sit outside in a
sandstorm but even that sounded like a welcome retreat from his
immature men. He walked about five hundred feet, then plopped down in
the hot sand.
The
red sky hung above him, thick from smoke from the nearby town. Bret
struggled to catch a glimpse of the distant mountains. Sand seemed to
pelt down from the heavens, blinding him and settling into every
crevice in his body. He closed his eyes against the sting of the
sand, and turned his thoughts to Selena. Was she the diva the
tabloids made her out to be? Even after ten years, he could almost
smell her buttery-coconut scent. A welcome change from the
overflowing shitters, toxic diesel, and stench of his fellow Marines
who hadn’t bathed in three weeks.
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My review;
Love Waltzes In is a beautiful love story. I really enjoyed it because I love to read about dancing. The author made the characters believable and exciting. The plot is about how the 2 main characters used to dance together. Now, it seems that they will be dancing again after about 10 years. The question is have they lost their chance at happiness forever? I give this book a 4/5. I was given this book for the purpose of a review and all opinions are my own.
While I can do a basic waltz, I'd love to learn to do it really well.
ReplyDeleteI would love to learn to Salsa! I think that is a type of ballroom dancing :) Thank you!
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