Rainbow Snippets*– Warm Weather Ahead

In writing news, I finished the first draft of Fangs for the Memories this week, so now it's time to give it a good edit and get it to beta readers. In non-writing news, the Farmers Market is going well and it's finally going to be warm enough to get in the swimming. It's turning out to be a busy summer. 

Wildflowers on a morning walk. 

I'm snipping from Cinders and Ash again this week. In this scene, Lindsey and Brian are taking a midnight stroll through the campground and Brian is comparing the Illinois sky to the Wyoming sky, when there is a flash of light. And Lindsey has a thought about her "fake" relationship. Told from Lindsey's POV:

We stood silently until there was a flash and I gasped. “Falling star! Quick, make a wish!”

Making a wish isn’t as easy as it sounds. Blow out birthday candles, throw a coin in a well, tug on a wishbone, blow a fallen eyelash off the tip of your finger. But what does one wish for? Something frivolous or something serious? For yourself or for someone else? Usually, there’s time to think about it or maybe even plan ahead. But a falling star is spontaneous. No thought, just the first thing that comes to mind. “I wish this was real.” It burst forth, not from my mouth, but fully formed in my mind. 

“Holy shit!” I gasped.


Cinders and Ash Blurb: 
Lindsey Andrews has never had a boyfriend, and being aromantic, she doesn't want one. But during a moment of desperation, she latches onto her apartment complex’s maintenance man--a man she’s been sparring with from the first minute they met--and introduces him to her brother as her boyfriend. The fact she finds him sexy doesn’t make the ruse difficult.
Brian Ashton left his Wyoming family ranch for a new start in St. Louis. A week into his new job and the woman with the green hair in 2B already has him questioning his decision. The last thing he expects is the connection they form during a camping trip with her family and friends.
Pretending to be her boyfriend should be easy, but Brian’s beginning to realize nothing is easy when it comes to Lindsey. And falling in love with a woman who is there when he needs her, but still insists she can’t love him back, is the hardest thing he’s ever done. 

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  1. Addison AlbrightJune 11, 2022 at 4:51 AM

    Oh, nice. It’s like how you think you don’t know which way you want something to go until that coin toss is in the air, and in that split second you realize which way you want it to land. ❤️

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