The authors will be awarding digital copies of the books on tour to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
Scattered Ashes
by Dona Sarkar
Unraveling the Pieces
By Terri DuLong
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GENRE: Fiction
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BLURB:
SCATTERED ASHES by Dona Sarkar
Sometimes facing the future means saying goodbye to the past.
A remarkable story of love and loss, Dona Sarkar’s latest novel explores
the timely subject of cultural diversity and the timeless matters of trust,
faith, and grief through the eyes of one extraordinary young woman.
Mars Alexander is the girl who has everything—the right clothes, the
perfect boyfriend, the best grades. But when her military father is declared
dead, Mars refuses to believe it—and refuses to say goodbye. With no body to
bury, she’s convinced her father will return from Afghanistan, and she’s
determined to make him proud. But when she meets the young Middle Eastern
instructor of her essay prep class, a door to a whole new world opens.
Zayed Anwar has lived a life Mars can barely imagine, or understand. But
as he challenges both her intellect and her emotions, she finds herself making
bold new choices, and looking at everything through a new lens. Falling in love
is as frightening as it is exciting, until she realizes that Zayed is keeping
painful secrets from her—secrets that could shatter her all over again.
UNRAVELING THE PIECES by Terri
DuLong
New York Times bestselling author Terri DuLong casts on her newest tale
of heartbreak and hope in Ormond Beach, Florida, a sun-dappled haven where one
woman finds the comfort she’s always needed…
Petra Garfield has no real attachments tying her down to one place.
She’s ready for an adventure, so what could be better than an extended stay at
Koi House with new friends and old in enchanting Ormond Beach. Having recently
lost her mother, Petra is riddled with questions about the father she never
knew. She certainly never thought she’d begin to find the answers in a tiny
town in Florida…
As much as she wants to search for the truth, Petra knows she can’t
spend all her time wallowing in the past, and her friends at the Dreamweaver
yarn shop aren’t about to let her. The ladies encourage her to volunteer at a
local animal shelter, where she hits it off with a young boy—and his handsome
father. Tangled in secrets she didn’t even know she had, Petra must learn to
stitch her life back together even as she unravels lifelong mysteries—and
perhaps she’ll find unexpected happiness along the way…
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EXCERPT:
Scattered
Ashes
“What’s
happened out there?” I asked. “There’s so much chaos.” The woman did an
eye-roll. “Some war protesters. They set fire to a garbage can or something
around the corner.”
“Thanks.”
As
I ran across the street to avoid the smoky air, I saw a slight movement, like
the fluttering of a giant bird’s wing, in the window alcove of my favorite
coffee shop.
I
stopped. It wasn’t a bird. There was a guy sitting in my usual spot, flipping
rapidly through the pages of a book.
The
guy in the window seemed completely unaffected by everything going on outside.
He was nineteen, twenty at the most, with hurricane-colored eyes, the most
incredible I had ever seen. His knife-like cheekbone ridges were even more
distinct.
He
was a stranger to me, yet I couldn’t stop staring at him. I stood paralyzed on
the sidewalk. The crossing signal flickered, and I couldn’t persuade my feet to
move.
He
was reading a book with a familiar-looking burgundy cover but must have sensed
someone staring and looked up. Saying that our gazes met was an understatement.
In one incredible, heart-stopping second, he seemed to commit to memory every
aspect of my face. His abundantly large eyes, too wide-set, seemed out of place
in his sharp, tawny-colored features.
The
sidewalk activity seemed to dull into the background as we stared at each
other. Without a smile or any other expression, he returned to his book, as if
the exchange had taken place only in my mind.
I
felt the ridiculous desire to knock on the window to get his attention. I
wanted to see the color of those eyes again.
This
was insane. Snapping to my senses, I crossed 45th Street and headed to my car,
not daring to look back at the coffee shop. . . .
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Dona Sarkar
wishes she’d been born as a cat so she could have had 9 lives. Since that
didn’t work out, she decided to live 9 lives in this one. She spends her days
making holograms at Microsoft, celebrates diversity in STEM fields as a fashion
blogger at Fibonacci Sequins and is launching her first fashion line called
Prima Dona Style this year.
She is also the published
author of three novels and one non-fiction book.
Dona lives in Seattle with
her really patient husband and her muse, a very bossy tabby cat named Ash. She
can be reached at: donasarkar.com; twitter.com/donasarkar; and facebook.com/donasarkarbooks.
Buy links:
Buying options at:
http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/book.aspx/33982
Terri DuLong
Born and raised north of
Boston, Terri DuLong was a previous resident of Cedar Key, Florida. She now
resides on the east coast of the state in Ormond Beach with her husband, three
dogs and two cats. A retired Registered Nurse, she began her writing career as
a contributing writer for Bonjour Paris, where she shared her travel
experiences to France in over forty articles with a fictional canine narrator.
Terri’s love of knitting provides quiet time to develop her characters and
plots as she works on her new Ormond Beach novels. You can visit her website at
terridulong.com or at her Facebook fan page, facebook.com/TerriDuLongAuthor
Buy links:
Buying options at:
http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/book.aspx/34005
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE
The authors will be awarding digital copies of the books on tour to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
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