BROKEN
by
Tanille Edwards
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BLURB:
Meet
Milan, a young supermodel with a disability from New York’s Upper
East Side, who falls deeply in love as she is coming of age. In this
romantic drama, the emotional conflict of a girl’s inner soul is
revealed as she deals with a first love, the pain of loss, and the
pleasures of stardom, all while coping with a lifelong secret. In the
world of Milan, the people are real, the situations are rolling, and
the truth is often concealed. Broken is a racy circle of sisterhood,
laced with a touch of earthiness, glamour, wealth, and fame.
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EXCERPT:
The
light changed. I waited anxiously for a chance to walk through
traffic. I couldn’t see him. He wouldn’t do this to me. I knew he
must have seen me. It’s me! The crowd at the opposite corner just
kept growing. Yikes! This light was going to mess me up! I was
desperately impatient. I ran across the street against the light. An
Escalade was steering straight for me. I was going to stop right
there. But I just ran. A thought of my mother crossed my mind.
I had to
risk it to find him. As soon as my foot hit the curb, the crowd
charged across the street. Had that millisecond even made a
difference? I still didn’t see him. I charged against the crowd. It
was like 20 people deep. I thought I had finally made it through the
maze of people when I turned my head left, then right to look for
Noel. Unannounced, a 10-year-old’s mother grabbed on her so hard
she slammed against me. I fell from the recoil.
There I
was, on the pavement, only a moment away from tears. In the rain, my
blouse and jeans completely soaked. This was New York, right? No one
was going to lend me a hand to get up. And I was falling behind. I
could barely think straight. How could he come to this corner and not
come to the house? How could he just have walked by? Where was he?
Had he
fled upon seeing me? Like when I fled upon seeing him kiss that girl?
The reminder alone hollowed out my chest. It was that wretched, empty
feeling you got right before you break down and cry. I couldn’t
help the tears. It felt like I had lost him all over again. It felt
like I was defeated and mistaken and not deserving. It felt like his
love was not mine. My face was so wet that no one could see I was
crying. I was probably going to get pneumonia. Would it serve me
right? The world was not mine, after all. I shared it with millions
of people, people who had prayers much deeper than mine. I was to
cross the street and go back up to the apartment. I was to learn to
love. … A knot gathered in my throat as I thought. I was to learn
to love those who loved me and stop pretending things would ever
change.
I stood
just outside the building awning. Wet and shivering, I had no
concerns for the cold. I couldn’t go inside crying. That was one
thing. No one ever knew how I cried. I stood there and I asked God to
let the rain wash away my broken heart. I asked him, had I even seen
Noel?
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
Tanille
is the co-author and creator of the children's green book series
"Jordan & Justine's Weekend Adventures." She is also
the author of the new media young adult novel with music "Cameo
by Tanille." Th¬e Undercover Starlet Journal is a title Tanille
created to inspire young women and has extended Undercover Starlet
into brand extensions that appear throughout
her
novels. Tanille has been writing since age 16.
Links:
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