FACADE by Nyrae Dawn
Publication Date: September 24, 2013
Genre: New Adult
Mass Market
ISBN: 9781455576319
Summary:
No
one knows who twenty-one year-old Adrian Westfall is behind his façade.
After what he's done, he deserves to live alone with his pain, even if
he'd do anything to forget. Anything for a moment of quiet without his
past
haunting him.
Eighteen year-old Delaney Cross wants nothing more than to absolve her family from her father's sins. To keep her suicidal mom off that ledge, and help her brother Maddox get the light back in his eyes. She thinks their road to freedom is through Adrian.
Adrian and Delaney are bound together by tragedy... Only Adrian doesn't know it. As their lives intertwine, they find a solace in each other they never knew existed. Laney knows she needs to tell him-to come out from behind her smoke screen, but to say the words could mean losing him.
Two people. Two disguises. True love. Will it be enough to save them when all secrets are bared?
Author Bio:
Writing
has always been Nyrae Dawn's passion. Nyrae gravitates toward
character-driven stories. She loves going on emotional journeys with
characters whether it be reading or writing. And yes,
she's a total romantic at heart and proud.
Nyrae resides in sunny Southern California with her husband (who still makes her swoon) and her two awesome kids.
When she's not with her family, you can be pretty sure you'll find her with a book in her hand or her laptop and an open document in front of her. Nyrae also writes adult romance under the name Kelley Vitollo.
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Excerpt:
When
I see my sister, Angel, walk over to Ash’s grave I don’t get out of the car.
When some guy walks up and grabs her hand, I don’t know who he is and yet, I
don’t bother finding out. They hug and I don’t walk over and do the same thing
to her. It’s not our thing to stand around having some group, mourning session
over the two year-old boy who died too soon.
Nope. This is real life. Not like
all the stupid fucking books I read or the movies people watch or the reality
shows that couldn’t be farther away from reality.
Without moving an inch, I watch her.
Watch as she sets flowers on Ashton’s grave. As the guy pulls her into a hug.
As they kneel on the ground, probably talking to him in a way I’ll never have
the balls to do.
The guy says something to her and
then gets up and walks away. I duck further down in my seat, but no one is
paying attention to me. He heads back to a little car and waits.
Angel’s hands go to her face and I
know she’s crying in them. Know she’s mourning the loss of Ash, the boy she
loved so much. The boy she took care of better than any mom could. I know she
sent the guy away because she’s like me and needs to handle shit on her own.
Only unlike me, she’ll never run.
She cries out there for probably
thirty minutes. The whole time my chest is tight. Aching. It’s hard to breathe
and I want to turn away, but I don’t. I deserve to feel this way and deserve to
see this.
A fist squeezes tighter and tighter
around my heart. My face is wet, but I don’t bother to wipe away the tears,
either. Real men don’t fucking cry. That’s what dad always said before he hit
me in a series of body shots, until I couldn’t stop myself from doing just what
he said I shouldn’t do.
Then he’d beat me harder for being
weak.
Angel’s shoulders are shaking. I can
tell from this far away.
I’m not an idiot. Never have been. I
know it wouldn’t make me weak to walk over there and hug her. To hold her and
tell her it’ll be okay, but I still won’t do it. What right do I have to try
and console her, when I’m the one who destroyed everything?
When I’m the one who let Ash die?
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