Hi, Lisa Greer here! My gothic romance novel, Moonlight on the Palms, is out now. If you like Southern settings, a sultry and twisted but sweet romance, and a mystery, I think you'll enjoy it. The novel is set in Brownsville, Texas, where I currently make my home. I've included a short excerpt below where the heroine, Astrid Kent, meets her ex-lover, Juan Marquez, again after eleven years.
Astrid's brain felt like a lump. Nothing made sense. She
leaned against the marble topped island for support.
“I was married to your mother. I'm her widower now.” He
said these words as if speaking to a stupid child. “You look like you
need to sit down, Astrid. Come with me.”
Juan came to her side, putting his hand on her back and
steering her back down the hall to the dim sitting room. The touch
of his arms around her brought even more pain as did the sound of
her name on his lips. How she had longed to hear it again, and now
she realized it had all been a fantasy. He had belonged to her
mother during all those years she had dreamed of him. Juan placed
her on a white brocade couch that had been there since Astrid's
teen years. His hand lingered a beat too long on her shoulder.
“What are you talking about? How could you have married
my mother? You can’t be serious.” She kept thinking she would
wake up from what must be a nightmare.
Astrid looked at him closely for the first time, tears standing
in her eyes despite her attempts to will them away. His face was
burned into her heart. She would have known it anywhere, and she
had dreamed about it over and over in the past eleven years.
His long- lashed, ink black eyes were backlit by the last rays
of light coming through the huge window in the sitting room. His
hair, straight and cut short, glowed blue- black in the lamp's rays.
His skin gleamed, flawless and the color of mocha, but she could
see lines around his eyes that had not been there before. He would
be thirty- two now, but he looked older than that somehow.
Unaltered fine features, the classic Roman nose and sensual mouth
made her breath catch in physical pain.
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