Book Title: Afflicted
Author: Sophie
Monroe
Release Date: May
17, 2013
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Blurb ~ Fresh off tour Blake Potter, the sexy bassist for
Battlescars, is in Smithville, Ohio to work on their next album ‘Coming Clean’.
Still pining after Aubrey’s best friend, Piper, it’s going to be harder than he
expected to see her back with her long-term boyfriend, Cole. He’s trying his
hardest to forget her, but no matter how hard he tries to stay away
circumstances keep bringing them together. Being burned before, he refuses to
let it happen again. He’s still struggling to let go of Rowan, the girl that
made him the way he is.
Piper is fighting an uphill battle of her own. She’s working
her ass off trying to make a name for herself as a tattoo artist. Her long-term
boyfriend, Cole, was recently discharged from the Marines turning her world in
a way that she never expected. When he begins leaving for days at a time Piper
starts struggling to help him pick up the pieces. She calls the one person that
might be able to help, Blake. He becomes the friend that she needs no matter
how much it’s killing him.
What will happen when one phone call changes everything for
both of them leading them in a path that neither anticipated? Pasts will come
out of the shadows and threaten to ruin everything.
Excerpt
Hurt flashed across his face breaking my heart even further.
I knew I needed to face this on my own. I was starting to second-guess if Blake
and I could really be something, would I ever be able to love him like I loved
Cole? Were we holding onto strings better left to fray? He said he loved me and
I was pretty sure that I loved him, but in my jumbled thoughts I couldn’t think
of anything except going home to Cole.
“I’ll call a cab.” I put on a brave face and pushed
everything aside.
“I’ll take you. Let’s go.”
He said holding my bag in one hand and reaching for my hand
with the other. I retracted knowing that touching him would falter my reserve. I
followed him down the hallway and said a quick goodbye to his parents with Blake
promising to explain when he got back. He told Joss to be there when he got back.
Speeding the entire ride to the airport and parking in the drop off zone he
walked inside without waiting for me to catch up with him. He went straight the
ticket counter using his charms on the girl working. Pulling a credit card from
his wallet he handed it to her while she waited for the ticket to print. I
stood off to the side letting him do his thing. When he was finished he handed
me the ticket with a look in his eyes that will probably haunt me for as long
as I live.
About the Author:
Sophie Monroe is an author from New Jersey. She’s obsessed
with music and loves a good story. She released the Amazon Best Seller
Battlescars in March. Afflicted is a spin-off of Battlescars with different
characters but has appearances of the reader’s favorites Jake, Aubrey and
Granny Jean, along with the rest of the gang.
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