ACT
LIKE YOU LOVE ME official Blurb:
All’s
fair in acting and amore...
Brynn
McAdams isn’t the awkward drama geek she was in high school—she’s
grown up and confident, or at least she likes to think so. But when
her old crush, the impossibly handsome and impossibly unattainable
Sawyer Raines, comes back to town to direct her community play, Brynn
finds herself determined to be someone other than the girl he doesn’t
even recognize. Good thing she’s an excellent actress.
After
his bad breakup in NYC, the last thing Sawyer wants is to get
involved with another actress. But the glamorous and beautiful Brynn
draws him in, even though as her director, he knows she’s
off-limits. There’s just something about the woman that
feels…familiar. Like home.
As
Brynn’s lies start to snowball, she struggles to stop acting and
come clean. But what if Sawyer is already falling for the fake Brynn,
not the Brynn she truly is?
ACT
LIKE YOU LOVE ME excerpt:
“Cut,
cut cut!” Sawyer stood. “Was that supposed to be more passionate?
Because it
sucked.”
“This
is supposed to be the eighteen hundreds,” Brynn said. “It can’t
be too passionate
or it would seem inappropriate for the time.”
The
next instant Sawyer was charging up the steps to the stage. “I’m
not saying it’s
got to be a kiss with tongue, I’m saying you’ve got to look at
each other like you’re in
love so the
audience will want it to work out. Our modern audience.” Sawyer
shook his head.
“Take it again, from before the proposal.”
It
was impossible to concentrate with Sawyer standing right there, so
close she could
hear every shift of his body and feel his gaze on her like a weight.
All her lines were
swimming together.
Leo
knelt, told her she was an angel. She said her line, trying to peer
into his soul like
she wanted to be with him, and then Leo kissed her. And it was
sloppier than usual.
She
did her best to not jerk back, though it was her first instinct.
“Okay,
that was just…” Sawyer moved in front of her. He looked at the
playbook, then
lowered it by his side and stared into her eyes. The air thickened
around them and she
could feel every thump of her heart. “What a perfect angel you are,
Cecily.” He said it
so tenderly, his smile close-lipped but full of joy.
“You
dear romantic boy,” she said, all out of instinct because thoughts
were getting
fuzzy.
He
leaned in and kissed her, a soft kiss with his lips barely parted.
The pressure of his
lips increased for a delicious moment, and then they were gone. A
quick, simple kiss, but
when his mouth left hers, she felt its absence so strongly that she
couldn’t think about anything else for a couple seconds. Her breath
was stuck somewhere in her lungs and her lips still tingled, living
the sensation over and over again. Heat wound through her body, her
hands itched to reach out and touch him. And then she remembered she
was supposed
to. She ran her fingers through his hair and felt the whisper of his
breath on her wrist as he exhaled.
“Wow,
that was good,” Wendy said from the front, breaking Brynn from her
trance.
Brynn
stepped back and swallowed, but her throat wasn’t working right.
Sawyer’s eyes
never left hers, and one corner of his mouth curved up in a smug,
self-satisfied way.
“It
was all right, I suppose,” Brynn said, working to keep her voice
steady. She crossed
her arms and shrugged. “For a first-timer, anyway.”
That
only made Sawyer’s smile grow wider.
Brynn
couldn’t help but watch Sawyer as he jumped off the stage. Funny
how she’d
dreamed of kissing him all the time in high school, but her fantasy
wasn’t even close
to the real thing. Her heart felt like it’d just been wrung out and
shoved back in her
And
her scene with Leo was better. She was sure it had nothing to do with
the fact that
she closed her eyes and pretended it was Sawyer kissing her again.
Nope.
Nothing at all.
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LIKE YOU LOVE ME pre-buy links:
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& Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1115250847
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Cindi Madsen sits at her computer every chance she gets, plotting revising, and falling in love with her characters. Sometimes it makes her a crazy person. Without it, she’d be even crazier. She has way too many shoes, but can always find a reason to buy a new pretty pair, especially if they’re sparkly, colorful, or super tall. She loves music, dancing, and wishes summer lasted all year long. She lives in Colorado (where summer is most definitely NOT all year long) with her husband and three children. She is the author of YA novelsAll the Broken Pieces and Demons of the Sun, bestselling short romance Falling for Her Fiancé and the women's fiction novel Cinderella Screwed Me Over.
Love the cover and the excerpt!! Adding this to my buy list! YUM!
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