by Leanne Davis
Shaking my head, the tears finally cease and I’m grinning. I‘m ready to celebrate my college graduation with my entire family. This time, the graduation is in honor of me so all of my friends and family will be coming. I sling my own arm over my girl’s shoulder. Everyone is laughing, talking, and shouting crap at each other when we all start shuffling through the crowd to eventually exit the gymnasium.
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Thank you for reading CHRISTINA!
Christina found out her family’s secret as she fell in love along the way.
Now read on to explore her long lost sister’s story and how it intersects with the Hendricks’ family. Natalie believes she will never pursue a relationship with the Hendricks. But a shocking event drives her from her husband and she takes refuge in these strangers. Unfortunately, Sam, her husband, figures out where she’s gone. He comes to her. And even worse, none of her feelings for him are as cut and dried as she wishes them to be. There is hurt, rage, shock, pain, as there is joy, laughter, fun, and history. And there is still love. But is it enough to ever find their way back together again?
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Excerpt from NATALIE.
No.
That is all that comes to my brain. That is all that I think to start shouting. Or whispering. Or crying. But I don’t do any of that. I don’t even utter the word out loud. I just stare and stare. I just stand there, frozen. I stand there destroyed. I stand there bleeding.
No.
Blood falls through my fingers where I clutch at my stomach. Blood. So much of it goes drip–drop, drip–drop down onto the ground under me. I glance down and my hand is gone. It’s as if it’s covered in a crimson cloth. So much blood.
Still, I stand there.
Is this me? Is this my blood? It’s warm. The faint thought trickles from a weird spot in my brain. It’s so warm. That surprises me.
I feel nothing. I don’t feel it. I see it. I see it all. But I don’t feel it. Is this what you feel like when you’re dying? Am I watching myself die and my spirit is now floating out of my body and off away. To heaven? To hell? Surely not to hell. I was, or at least I tried in earnest, to be a good person. But now? Where will I go?
I see who shot me. She’s right in front me. Not a bus length away from me. She stares at me as shocked as I am at her. She wronged me. She destroyed my life. How could she have shot me?
I don’t know.
The world starts to shift. I fall to my knees. Shit. I feel that. Through it all I feel the thump of my knees to the concrete. The colors swirl and swirl, browns and greens and grays and blue, so much blue. Trees, leaves, concrete, buildings and sky. Sky everywhere now over me. Faces are all gone. She is gone. I am gone.
Sam.
Sam’s face fills my mind’s eye. Oh Sam. What would you do now? What would you do without me? What will you do with this? Oh Sam…
No. No, Sam is gone. He’s gone. He’s not here.
I’m sorry, Sam. I’m sorry. I’m so sorry I was wrong. I’m so sorry for myself most of all because it’s too late for sorry. It’s too late for forgiveness. It’s too late for life.
I finally understand anything could have been fixed when I was alive. Anything. But this? Death? It’s really the end. It’s really forever. It’s only now, this last moment of my life as the colors and the sky start to turn gray and are fading into black, do I fully understand all that I have wasted in my life. As the black pinpricks take over and my eyes start to close I understand that this is actually the end.
Like always, my need to be right cost me every chance to be happy.
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Other Books by Leanne Davis:
The Sister Series is about the emotional scars and battles that are often hidden in people.
Rape. Drugs. Abuse. Violence. Pain. Betrayal.
And how they can be overcome.
Love. Joy. Family. Forgiveness. Faith. Hope. Redemption
The Sister Series:
The Other Sister
The Years Between
The Good Sister
The Best Friend
The Wrong Sister
The Years After
The Broken Sister
The Perfect Sister
The Lost Sister
The Remaining Sister
The Step Sister
FREE Extended Epilogue of Jessie & Will
Daughters is a spin-off of The Sister Series about Jessie’s (The Other Sister) daughters.
Christina
Natalie
Melissa
Emily
Share in the fall, rise and eventual fulfillment of the rock band Zenith’s destiny…
Zenith Falling
Zenith Rising
Zenith Fulfilled
The characters are all connected to Seaclusion, Washington a fictional town set along the Pacific Ocean
Poison
Notorious
Secrets
Seclusion
The Rydell River Ranch is a large horse training, boarding and breeding operation, owned and operated by four brothers who are left in charge of their century old legacy in the small, rural town of River’s End.
River’s End
River's Escape
River's Return
River Road
River on Fire
River's Lost
River of Change
River's Destiny
River's Rescue
River's Winter
Standalone Novel:
Diversions
About the Author
Leanne Davis has earned a business degree from Western Washington University. She worked for several years in the construction management field before turning full time to writing. She lives in the Seattle area with her husband and two children. When she isn't writing, she and her family enjoy camping trips to destinations all across Washington State, many of which become the settings for her novels.
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Christina
COPYRIGHT © 2015 by Leanne Davis
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.
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Publishing History First Edition, 2015 Digital
Digital ISBN 978-1-941522-22-6
Daughters Series, Book One
Edited by Teri at The Editing Fairy ([email protected])
Copyediting: [email protected]
Cover Design by Steven Novak ([email protected])
Dedication:
To Alex
For lighting up my entire world
Acknowledgement: To Teri (www.editingfairy.com) for yet another book
! Thank you for all your editing skills!