Synopsis
Attended by reality TV star wannabes
and Southern California social climbers, Schooner Moore knows the party his
wife is throwing for his forty-third birthday has little to do with him and
everything to do with her social standing in Orange County. The evening turns
out to hold more surprises than just his wife's Botoxed friends groping at his
privates, when a conversation with his old college roommate, Beau, reveals the
biggest surprise of the night.
Beau has had contact on Facebook
with Mia Silver. Just hearing her name sends Schooner into a tailspin, as he is
now just a Friend Request away from the one who got away when she disappeared
without a goodbye, leaving him wondering why she left.
A serial failure at romance,
Manhattan boutique ad agency owner, Mia, gets a blindside of her own when a
Facebook Friend Request from first love, Schooner, appears in her email. Going with
her gut reaction, Mia hits accept, propelling her past to catch up with her in
a New York minute, as a forceful Schooner is determined to understand what tore
them apart and to explore the possibility of a second chance at love.
From a 1980's Southern California
college campus and a devastating first love to present day New York City,
Searching for Moore explores how technology has eradicated the divide between
our past and our present, and asks whether you would give up everything to
reconnect with The One in a single keystroke?
Excerpt
Schooner
and Mia poured over the tennis schedule, two to three weekends per month he'd
be playing in matches and about half of them would require travel, taking him
away for a few days.
"I miss you already." Mia
told him, sitting in his lap at her desk. He pulled her face in for a kiss.
"I'm going to really miss
this," he tightened his arms around her waist, "when Caroline gets
back and I've got to move back into my dorm".
"Ugh, it's going to suck,"
she pouted, "I like waking up with you."
He leaned down and bit her pouty lower
lip. "Grrrrr. I love waking up with you."
"I didn't know I could feel so
addicted to someone," she admitted, a surprised look fleeting past her
eyes. "I didn't know I'd ever want to," she paused, thinking.
"It scares me. Yet, I don't want to
lose this."
Schooner pulled her head against his
chest and rested his chin on top of her head. "We won't lose this. I
promise."
She looked up at him, searching his
eyes, silently begging him to keep his promise, he thought. And for him, in
that moment, the floodgates broke. He took her face in his hands, kissed her
eyes, her cheeks, the tip of her nose and then softly her lips. "Baby
Girl," he sighed, "I love you."
Mia's eyes widened, registering her
surprise.
He was nodding his head, "I love
you. I really do. And I've never said that to anyone. I don't want to freak you
out, Mia, and I'm sorry if I am, but I could see us together forever. Can't
you?"
Her face broke into a huge smile and
fat tears coursed down her cheeks. And she just nodded her head. Schooner took
her face in his hands and started out softly kissing her lips, intensifying as
she weaved her fingers into his hair, gently pulling. He heard a growl sound rumbling
from the base of his throat and picked Mia up as he stood. Her legs were
wrapped around his waist as he walked to the bed, their kiss never breaking.
He laid her down on her back and got
beside her, facing her on his side. He pushed her irreverent mass of dark curls
from her face and kissed her softly.
He leaned down next to her ear and
whispered, "I want to make you happy."
Mia put her hand to his face, brushing
her thumb across his cheek and smiling into his beautiful clear blue eyes.
"You make me very happy."
About the Author
Author
Julie A. Richman is a native New Yorker living deep in the heart of Texas. A creative writing major in college, reading
and writing fiction has always been a passion.
Julie began her corporate career in publishing in NYC and writing played
a major role throughout her career as she created and wrote marketing,
advertising, direct mail and fundraising materials for Fortune 500
corporations, advertising agencies and non-profit organizations. She is an award winning nature photographer
plagued with insatiable wanderlust.
Julie and her husband have one son and a white German Shepherd named
Juneau.
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