Grisham, for second year, judged The HooK annual fiction contest in March 2008. He chose my story Dancing on the Ledge as second place winner, and my story Lost in the Land of Sunshine for the third place winner. First time that has happened in history of the contest. A story of mine won first place in 2004, and the book from which it was an excerpt is scheduled for release in January 2009.
Excerpt: Even now she could hear Glen's laughter, so personal, so intense. He reeled her in as literally as if he had taken her hands, dragged her to the parapet, and commanded her to jump. Lust--she didn't think she'd ever known until now. Drawn into the memories of a younger self, she scrounged for a wisp, a thread of an earlier time when she might have felt this way. Surely in her youth some man had made her melt and lose control. But she couldn't recall it: only this new, unspoken, outrageous demand of a stranger to be close, the soft rush of air, his breath slipping by hers in mere conversation, temptingly warm, sweet, her tongue sliding across her lips to catch the almost taste of him.
A page-turning novel about a relationship between best friends that is interrupted because of betrayal , deceit, sexual promiscuity and pregnancy happens!
Rovella is a beautiful woman with a cold heart whom blames herself for an unfortunate old family secret that is literally ruining her life. This secret impedes a gorgeous woman from having happiness in her childhood, and throughout her life. Dark sec