Excerpt!
From In the Shadow of a Memory Novella
With her back pressed against the closed door, Auri swiped at her eyes, wishing she didn’t feel the need to cry. But everything had fallen apart, and she couldn’t seem to find her compass. With Jessamine missing, her parents—her mother, specifically—liars, and Nix unable to remember her, Auri closed her eyes and slid down the door until she was sitting on the floor, wrapping her arms around her knees, as she let the tears take control.
“Aurielle?”
Her eyes flew open as her head snapped up to find Nix crouched in front of her.
“What are you doing?” She scrambled to her feet.
“You shut the door on me.”
His words from so long ago drifted through her mind: Don’t shut me out. I don’t like it. Oh! What she wouldn’t give to have him back. Her Nix. To feel his arms around her and know that in the storm of what was happening she, at least, had him. While this man was her Nix, he was a shadow of the man she’d come to know and love.
“Get out.”
But he didn’t budge. Instead, he stood there frowning at her.
“You don’t want to remember,” she snapped. “Why should I waste my time sharing a story that means something to me?”
She tried to step around him, but he grabbed hold of her arm, stopping her. “I don’t want to be stuck here.”
“We’re all stuck!” she yelled.
He leaned forward until her back pressed against the door once more. Only now, Nix was taking up her space, so close she could feel his heat, his hands pressed on either side of her head.
“You said you would,” he insisted.
Author bio:
Romance author.
Lover of stories.
Maci Aurora has been writing stories since she was a child. When she was eleven, she fell in love with reading Sunfire Historical Romances about girls who made a difference in their lives and still fell in love. In high school, a friend introduced her to Lavyrle Spencer and Judith McNaught, and from there, her writing journey was cemented in telling stories about love. Having already published many novels (all of which are threaded with romance as upper YA and New Adult titles) under the pen name, CL Walters, Maci Aurora wanted to write stories that offered the same attention to story and characters but with additional steam.
Maci writes in Hawaiʻi where she lives with her husband, their children, and their fur-babies.
The secrets Scarlett Fareview has hidden from her family are finally out in the open, but not without consequences. Alienating everyone she loves, she must face the hurt and betrayal she wrought with her duplicity. And the cost is high. In this series of novellas, the Fareveiws deal with the aftermath of Scarlett’s deception. Scarlett must face Tomas and her children, Brinna must determine if she and Luc can forge a future, and Auri and Nix face the next obstacle to their forever. Along with many other familiar characters, these stories bridge the gap between the end of In the Shadow of a Dream and the final book in the Fareview saga, In the Shadow of an Obsession.
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Romance author.
Lover of stories.
Maci Aurora has been writing stories since she was a child. When she was eleven, she fell in love with reading Sunfire Historical Romances about girls who made a difference in their lives and still fell in love. In high school, a friend introduced her to Lavyrle Spencer and Judith McNaught, and from there, her writing journey was cemented in telling stories about love. Having already published many novels (all of which are threaded with romance as upper YA and New Adult titles) under the pen name, CL Walters, Maci Aurora wanted to write stories that offered the same attention to story and characters but with additional steam.
Maci writes in Hawaiʻi where she lives with her husband, their children, and their fur-babies.
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