Genre: New Adult Romance
Expected Publication: August 13,
2013
Series: Smart Girls Finish First
#1
“Love is an earthquake. It comes
when you least expect it. It rips the ground clear away. Right out from under
you.”
The day Lia Smart met Grayson
Walker, eight years ago, was the day she fell helplessly in love with him.
Coincidentally, it was the same day Grayson fell in love with someone else:
Lia’s smarter, sexier, superior-in-every-way older sister, Alex.
Now, nearly a decade later, Alex
and Grayson are long over and twenty-two-year-old Lia has finally managed to
forget all those lonely nights she spent pining after her sister’s boyfriend. But
when Grayson unexpectedly arrives back in town with Alex for Labor Day weekend
and the two announce that they’re not only back together but engaged, all the feelings that Lia
buried suddenly come bubbling back to the surface.
But Lia is no longer the awkward,
gangly tomboy she was at fourteen. Far from it. And Grayson is conflicted by
the lustful thoughts he’s now having for her. He knows he could never act on those thoughts, however. Grayson
has always prided himself on being one of the “good guys.” But as the weekend
wears on, he’s finding this new grown-up version of Lia more and more
impossible to resist...
Heartbreaking and sexy with a
dash of humor, Sophie Swift crafts a passionate, unforgettable tale about desire,
growing up, and the kind of love that shakes us to the core.
Contains adult situations and explicit content. Recommended for ages
17+
Grayson
My chest hitches when I see her, barely visible in the porch
light, lumbering down the walkway to the beach, the blackness of the night
swallowing her up with each step.
I eye the door to the hallway.
The door to everything that happens after this moment.
I suddenly feel like my entire life will be decided by which
side of it I’m on.
This side—right here where I stand—is the side I’ve always
known. The one I have all the answers to. This is the side on which I marry
Alex and she bears my children and we buy a town house in Brooklyn together.
This is the side I always thought I wanted to be on.
And that side,
over there—through that doorway, down those stairs, onto that beach—that is the
side I know nothing about. A foreign land. With no certainties and no answers.
The side that terrifies me.
My gaze drills into the wooden door. My skin feels hot. My
mouth is dry. My fingers twitch.
And then suddenly, there is no more choice.
My body moves without permission from my mind.
In three paces I’m in the hallway. In ten juddered
heartbeats I’m down the stairs. In a dizzying montage of choppy, breathless
still frames, my bare feet stagger down the walkway, sinking into the cool
sand.
Lia stands motionless at the edge of the water, staring out
into the darkened horizon, as though she might find answers there. As though
the world beyond this shore might make more sense. The full moon casts a faint
light on the side of her face, causing her skin to glow.
The sand hides the sound of my heavy footfalls as I stride
toward her.
When my hand tightens around her arm, she is startled but
doesn’t scream. When I pull her around to face me, she opens her mouth to
protest. To continue the tirade she began in the parking lot of the bar. But
when my lips crush decisively against hers, claiming her with a consuming,
covetous kiss, everything falls silent.
Only the waves dare to breathe.
About the Author:
Sophie Swift is an east coast girl who
recently transplanted to Southern California. She writes about sexy boys by
day, and dates them by night. Her sizzling, new adult romance, OUT FROM UNDER
YOU, the first in a new contemporary series, will be released in August of
2013. She loves books that quicken her pace, music sung by adolescent boys, and
cupcakes with too much frosting. Visit her online at: www.SophieSwift.com
Twitter: @bySophieSwift
Facebook: SophieSwiftBooks
~*~ Giveaway ~*~
Comment to win a Kindle copy of Out from under You from Sophie Swift!
Winner will be selected by random.org on August 28.
Prize will be sent the week of September 2nd.
sounds like a good read!
ReplyDeleteOooh! I love it. I cannot wait to read the book and see how all the drama will unfold.
ReplyDeleteLooks great! Thanks for the giveaway :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway! The book sounds great!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to read this book. It sounds really good. Thank You for the opportunity to win a copy
ReplyDelete