I had a plan for the year, at least. With my new position reporting for the school newsblog, my college applications were set. SAT scores would be in soon, and hopefully by this time next year I’d be entering Northwestern, the top journalism school in the country.
That just left 365 days to endure.
I exhaled, and as I stood staring far out at the horizon, I wished something exciting would happen to me. Just once. Something to take my mind off the monotony or at least make my life a little more interesting.
No chance of that in this tiny town of less than ten thousand full-time residents.
A lifeguard had arrived when I walked back to gather my stuff. All the public beaches had them, and they were usually savage-tanned college guys perched in the tall-wooden booths under the beach warning flags. Yellow today. Moderate hazard.
I watched him scan the sunbathers. He was dark with a perfect body—a requirement for life guarding here, it seemed. At this time of year he had to be a local, but I didn’t know him.
“Hey,” I called up.
He looked down at me, eyebrows pulled together. “Whatcha need, kid?”
Some joke. He couldn’t have been more than nineteen, and I’d be eighteen in a few months.
“Are you B.J.?”
“Who wants to know?”
“A girl...” I started, and then wondered what I was even doing. “I just thought I recognized you.”
He looked at me like I’d had too much sun. Maybe I had. I shrugged and walked away, thinking they should’ve waited. Not that it mattered to me.
Beach escape had ended. It was time to face my life back on shore.
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Leigh Talbert Moore is a wife and mom by day, a writer by day, a reader by day, a former journalist, a former editor, a chocoholic, a caffeine addict, a lover of great love stories, a beach bum, and occasionally she sleeps.
Also by Leigh Talbert Moore:
The Truth About Faking (2012)
Rouge (2012)
The Truth About Letting Go (2013)
Dragonfly, Book 1 in the Dragonfly series (2013) – FREE as an eBook!
Undertow, Book 2 in the Dragonfly series (2013)
Watercolor, Book 3 in the Dragonfly series (2013)
Mosaic, Book 4/Final in the Dragonfly series (2014)
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Did you love Behind the Stars? Then you should read Dragonfly by Leigh Talbert Moore!
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Falling in love changes everything...
Three bad things I learned this year:
-People you trust lie, even parents.
-That hot guy, the one who's totally into you, he might not be the one.
-Things are not always how they appear.
Three good things I learned this year:
-Best friends are always there for you, even when they're far away.
-That other hot guy, the one who remembers your birthday, he just might be the one.
-Oh, and things are not always how they appear.
Anna Sanders expected an anonymous (and uneventful) senior year until she crossed paths with rich-and-sexy Jack Kyser and his twin sister Lucy.
Pulling Anna into their extravagant lifestyle on the Gulf Coast, Lucy pushed Anna outside her comfort zone, and Jack showed her feelings she'd never experienced... Until he mysteriously withdrew.
Anna turned to her internship at the city paper and to her old attraction for Julian, a handsome local artist and rising star, for distraction. But both led to her discovery of a decades-old secret closely guarded by the twins' distant, single father.
A secret that could permanently change all their lives.
A full-length New Adult contemporary romance, family saga. Recommended for readers 13+ due to mature themes and mild sexual content.
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