On the Slopes
By Bridie Hall
Ebook only
ISBN: 978-1-939590-69-5
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Blurb:
Snowboarding
means everything to Charlise, but she hasn’t met Sam Miller yet.
Charlise is a snowboarder with a promising career
ahead of her. Despite the fact that her father hates her risking her life on
the slopes that had taken the life of Charlise’s mother she is determined not
to give up her career the way her mother did when she fell pregnant. Charlise
wants to win medals, lots of them.
The last distraction Charlise needs is the American
freestyle champion, Sam Miller, who utterly enthrals her with his wit and
friendliness. Refusing to risk her career for a relationship, Charlise returns
home for Christmas, determined to sort things out with her father. But the
holidays culminate in an epic fight, and with a repeat of the painful breakup
with Sam. However, new discoveries from her family’s past might change
Charlise’s mind about Sam …
Excerpt
“So, you
dumped your mother to come see me?” she joked.
“Yeah, well,
this was more important than sightseeing.”
That sobered
her up. She hadn’t meant what she said, but she must have been closer to the
truth than she thought. “Christ, Sam. It could’ve waited. She flew in from the
US to see you.”
He waved his
hand. “She’ll be fine on her own. She always has been. She wants to meet you,
though.” He added, “It might be because I went on and on about you for the past
three days.”
Charlise
wanted to weep with all the warm feelings his words had awakened in her.
Instead, she said, “I’d be honored to meet her. From what you told me, she
sounds like an amazing woman.”
Sam cleared
his throat after he sipped his espresso. “Charlie, about that night—”
“Which one?”
He had the
decency to blush at her words. “At the club.”
He took
another sip. At this rate, his tiny cup would be empty within seconds. His
nerves were showing more than she’d anticipated.
“I have no
words to tell you how sorry I am. You hurt me, and I went and did something
stupid just to hurt you back. I would take it all back in a second if I could.”
“So, you
ended up at her place, did you?”
His silence
answered her question. The jolt of pain in her chest shocked her. But then
again, it shouldn’t have. She’d been thinking of Sam and love in the same
context when she woke up alone in her dark bedroom. How had he felt when he
awoke next to the beautiful stranger? Or hadn’t he stayed the night? God, she
didn’t want to know.
About the
author:
Bridie Hall writes young adult and new adult contemporary stories. She
sold her first story at fourteen. Since then, she has written dozens more,
translated books, studied writing, and started writing novels. Her days revolve
around stories and words, her sleepless nights involve plotting and inventing
fascinating new characters.
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