ABOVE ALL
by Rebecca Brooks
Publication Date: July 20, 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Standalone
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SYNOPSIS
Reeling from a sudden breakup, Casey Webb leaves Brooklyn, drives north, and settles in a sleepy mountain town in upstate New York. She’s convinced she’s happy being alone—until she reads the acknowledgments in her ex-boyfriend’s hit debut novel, thanking his new girlfriend “above all.”
Good thing Ben Mailer is in town. The hot, young Brooklyn-bound chef offers the perfect distraction. Soon the backwoods are heating up… But as their fling turns into more, the demands of Ben’s family and budding career make moving to her idyllic town impossible.
Now Casey must decide what she can’t live without—her life in the mountains, or the man she wants to be hers above all.
EXCERPT- ABOVE ALL by Rebecca Brooks
“You’re a little scary,” he whispered, turning to look into
her eyes. Casey knew he was trying to be serious, but she had to laugh. “Me?
You’d pretty much only seen me in sweatpants and knew I had nothing but eggs
and beer in the fridge. If I’m scary, it’s because I’m the loser monster that
follows young kids around, providing ample fodder for their parents to issue
warnings about what will happen if they don’t do their homework and wind up
with too many cats.” Ben smirked and shook his head. “Something tells me you
always did your homework. And last time I checked, you don’t have any cats.”
“Only because I’m not responsible enough to take care of them. I can’t even
keep a house plant alive.” “Overrated skills,” he said. “And you should try a
jade plant. You can neglect them to your heart’s content and they’ll live.”
“Tried it,” she countered. “I was expertly negligent and still it died.” He
pressed his lips together, trying not to laugh. “You are a special one.” “See?”
she said. “Not scary.” “Only scary to a houseplant.” “Which you are not.” “But
I’m serious.” Ben brought the conversation back around. “You are. You’re
beautiful, smart, thoughtful, observant, kind, and an incredible artist—I mean
really—and you withstand subzero temperatures—” “The water’s not that cold,”
she objected, but he shook his head. “Don’t interrupt me when I’m complimenting
you. It’s intimidating to be around someone who’s basically the whole package.
And intimidating because, how do I even get her attention when she has no
reason to glance my way? And then, oh my god, what do I do if she actually
does?” He shook his head. “You’re crazy,” Casey murmured, not sure what to make
of this boy who clearly hadn’t been around enough women to know that Casey was
anything but special, and far from scary. “I guess I’ve never known anyone who
felt this real,” he whispered so quietly, it was almost as if he hasn’t spoken.
There was a long pause. Casey had no idea how to respond. There was no way to
explain how deeply she had longed for him to come back, and your dimples make
my heart beat like a bongo set didn’t exactly have the right ring. It was
crazy, when she thought about how little they actually knew each other. But it
was even crazier to pretend that after what they’d just shared, they could
return to their lives pretending that nothing had changed. “I think I really
like you,” Ben finally said. Quietly, in that embarrassed tone he got that made
her want to kiss him all over. But instead she laughed. “You think?” She raised
an eyebrow. “I know,” he whispered in her ear, his breath shooting arrows down
her spine. “I’ve had way too long to think about it, and I know.”
ABOUT REBECCA BROOKS
Rebecca Brooks lives in New York City in an apartment filled with books. She received a PhD in English but decided it was more fun to write books than write about them. She has backpacked alone through India and Brazil, traveled by cargo boat down the Amazon River, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, explored ice caves in Peru, trekked to the source of the Ganges, and sunbathed in Burma, but she always likes coming home to a cold beer and her hot husband in the Bronx. Her books are about independent women who leave their old lives behind to try something new—and find the passion, excitement and purpose they didn’t know they’d been missing.
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