Title: Against All Odds
Author: Angie McKeon
Release Date: April, 2014
Genre: Contemporary Romance
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Blurb:
Our
lives shattered... Our hearts broken... Our souls torn to pieces...
He
was my world, my whole life. My reason for breathing. I had a perfect marriage,
a baby on the way, and I felt fulfilled—almost invincible.
Until
the day life hit, leaving me broken, vulnerable, and alone.
She
was my life. My ray of hope on the cloudiest day. With her, I thought I had the
ultimate safety. A love that would never hurt or betray me. I gave her my
heart, my body, and my soul.
Until
she broke me, destroying every dream and illusion I had about life, love, and
marriage.
In
our grief, we made a mistake. A mistake I'm not sure we can come back from.
Excerpt:
“Look at me,
Kylie,” he says.
If I look at
him, I’ll die. My heart will crumble, and I won’t make it out of his office. I
can’t do it. The pain is unbearable. When I leave here, he’s with her. The
thought of him with her, while I’m pining away for him makes me sick.
It destroys me.
“Please, Ky. I need you to look at me. Don’t
do this. Don’t play fucking games with me. I need you to look at me now.”
Just do it. Suck it up.
I turn
around and look at him with tears in my eyes and distress smeared across my
features like paint on a canvas. My body seeps anguish I can’t hide. I can
never hide my heart. My feelings are always written on every seam of my face,
every angle of my form. My distress penetrates the air around me, pulling him
into my suffering, entangling and entrapping him within the storm that rages in
me. I’m broken without him and I’ve been without him for so long that I’ve lost
pieces of myself along the way. The jar that holds the last of my heart is
about to shatter until nothing is left but shards of the woman I used to be.
“I can’t
take this anymore,” I whisper, my voice broken. “We need to talk about us over dinner.”
I can’t give
a voice to my thoughts. If nothing changes between now and then, our marriage
can’t go on. He’s killing me, and I’m killing him. Together, we’re a car wreck
heading straight for a cliff. A cliff that spans a mountain. We are on our way
to certain emotional death and this ride’s something I don’t want to be a part
of anymore. I want off.
His eyes
pierce mine, and I know he knows what I’m thinking. He looks stunned, and for a
split second, I see fear. Cold, fucking fear. He sees everything I need him to
see and more. I hope he gets it. I hope he understands that this might be the
end of our road. We need to have something to work for, or we have nothing. I
love him, but this love hurts. It hurts in a way I would’ve never dreamed it
could.
All rights reserved. Against All Odds
© 2014 Copyright, Angie McKeon.
Author Info:
A multi-tasker from
birth—and now proudly able to add 'writer' to my resume—I'm a mother, wife and
blogger. I love to read, write and drink copious amounts of iced coffee.
All three
aforementioned addictions are detrimental to my sanity.
I have a voracious
appetite for dark, painful and twisted reads. I'm enamored with the concept of
love and heart break. I believe life is a journey, a tale in its own for each
of us. The road to happiness is sometimes paved with stones from hell, or glitters
of satisfaction graced from the heavens above.
In my upcoming debut
novel, 'Against All Odds,' I strive to make you feel. I believe any
emotion—whether painful or happy—is good. To me, the key to living is to go
through life feeling its ups and downs. Love is dark and it can be painful but,
at the end of the day, it can save the most lost of souls and the most broken
of hearts
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