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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. Sheâs convinced sheâs happy being aloneâuntil she reads the acknowledgments in her ex-boyfriendâs hit debut novel, thanking his new girlfriend âabove all.â
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 Benâs family and budding career make moving to her idyllic town impossible.
Now Casey must decide what she canât live withoutâher life in the mountains, or the man she wants to be hers above all.
EXCERPT
âYouâre a little scary,â he whispered, turning to look into her eyes.
Casey knew he was trying to be serious, but she had to laugh. âMe? Youâd pretty much only seen me in sweatpants and knew I had nothing but eggs and beer in the fridge. If Iâm scary, itâs because Iâm the loser monster that follows young kids around, providing ample fodder for their parents to issue warnings about what will happen if they donât do their homework and wind up with too many cats.â
Ben smirked and shook his head. âSomething tells me you always did your homework. And last time I checked, you donât have any cats.â
âOnly because Iâm not responsible enough to take care of them. I canât even keep a house plant alive.â
âOverrated skills,â he said. âAnd you should try a jade plant. You can neglect them to your heartâs content and theyâll live.â
âTried it,â she countered. âI was expertly negligent and still it died.â
He pressed his lips together, trying not to laugh. âYou are a special one.â
âSee?â she said. âNot scary.â
âOnly scary to a houseplant.â
âWhich you are not.â
âBut Iâm serious.â Ben brought the conversation back around. âYou are. Youâre beautiful, smart, thoughtful, observant, kind, and an incredible artistâI mean reallyâand you withstand subzero temperaturesââ
âThe waterâs not that cold,â she objected, but he shook his head.
âDonât interrupt me when Iâm complimenting you. Itâs intimidating to be around someone whoâs 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?â He shook his head.
âYouâre crazy,â Casey murmured, not sure what to make of this boy who clearly hadnât been around enough women to know that Casey was anything but special, and far from scary.
âI guess Iâve never known anyone who felt this real,â he whispered so quietly, it was almost as if he hasnât 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 setdidnât 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 theyâd just shared, they could return to their lives pretending that nothing had changed.
âI think I really like you,â Ben finally said. Quietly, in that embarrassed tone he got that made her want to kiss him all over.
But instead she laughed. âYou think?â She raised an eyebrow.
âI know,â he whispered in her ear, his breath shooting arrows down her spine. âIâve had way too long to think about it, and I know.â
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 newâand find the passion, excitement and purpose they didnât know theyâd been missing.
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