When is having luck unlucky? Find out here…
(A Serendipity Novel #1)
Publication date: May 2014
Genres: New Adult, Romance, Suspense
Sometimes surviving doesn’t feel lucky. Especially when you’re a sole survivor…At the age of seven, Malerie walked away from a bombing that left hundreds dead—including her mother. When a crazed gunman kills her guardian on her eighteenth birthday, Malerie suspects there may be more to her survival than luck. A mysterious code holds the key to her future, and a reluctant white knight holds the key to her heart.
A loner wearing emotional armor…
Ace is a twenty-year-old entrepreneur focusing on two things in life: financial security and a life without ties. A life that doesn’t risk losing the ones who matter. When Ace is hired to secretly act as a bodyguard for Malerie, he faces an unwanted attraction that threatens to sabotage his heart. Can Ace find the courage to love a girl with a death wish?
MALERIE
“Give me a line and a rhyme. Give me your heart in words.”~ Jelly Bean Queen
*****
atterns of light shimmy along the ceiling of the hotel room. The heavy, brocade curtains are open and a filmy, sheer curtain blocks the bright sunlight. My cell alarm buzzes, and I reach over to press the display. The hotel is quiet this morning.
Ace lies beside me, deep in sleep. He’s on his back and his chest is bare. Oh, yeah. That would be because I practically tore his shirt off last night.
But I’m not embarrassed like I should be. Hurt? Yes. Like walking into the ocean with a thousand paper cuts. Rejection of epic proportions.
I’m glad I let myself experience something so I don’t have time to regret anything. The boxes reveal bad things from the past and the future. I will die soon. Of this, I am sure.
Death is coming for me but not before I can have the things I want so badly.
His chest rises and falls and I’m relieved he’s asleep. I need time to myself to analyze why he stopped us.
I inch over to where he lies and hover with my lips over his. Just one kiss for the sleeping prince who didn’t desert me when everyone else has. The touch of my lips to his is fleeting and I move off the bed as gracefully as possible.
I grab some clothes so I can get into the bathroom and change. I have things to do.
