Here's my sweet Saturday sample, a never-before-published excerpt. Gavin is a firefighter in the small town of Pine Grove. The rest speaks for itself. Click here for Sweet Saturday Samples.
“Sorry, Miss. You can‟t go in there,” the
firefighter said, releasing her.
“Who‟s injured?”
“Don‟t know. Two guys there,”
the ambulance driver said.
“Who?” April asked.
“Gavin and Bobby, I think.”
She gasped and tried to get
closer. One fireman watching the barn from the outside held a walkie talkie to
his mouth and was speaking to someone inside.
“Can you see him?” the fireman
said.
Silence, as he listened to the
response which sounded like static to April.
“Where?”
Again, static.
“Is he breathing?”
April felt her throat tighten
and her pulse race, pounding in her ears.
Again, static.
“Bring him out. Yeah. EMT‟s
here,” the fireman said and turned off the walkie talkie, “They‟re coming out.”
The EMT‟s were ready. April‟s
skin prickled with the tension in the air.
“They‟re coming out, stand
back.”
Shirley joined April, who took
the older woman‟s hand and squeezed it, then. Shirley put her arm around April‟s
shoulder.
“Here they come,” the fireman
said, as a shadowy figure approached the barn door.
One man was carrying another.
April strained her eyes but couldn‟t make out who was walking through the thick
smoke. It wasn‟t long before she saw it was Gavin walking out with Bobby slung
over his shoulder. Bobby was limp. The EMT crew raced up as Gavin laid Bobby
down gently on the ground a safe distance from the barn. The rescuers went to
work on Bobby immediately as he was unconscious. One worker gave Gavin a face
mask attached to oxygen. Gavin coughed a few times and held the mask to his
face.
“Gavin!” April shouted and
waved before pushing past the other firefighters and running over to him.
He looked up at her and smiled.
Before he could take more than a few breaths, she flew into his arms, tears
spilling down her cheeks.
“Whoa, April! You‟re going to
get full of smoke...what are you doing here?” He asked, folding his arms around
her and smiling.
„Shirley and Hal told me—” She
gasped for breath “…Told me the ambulance was probably for a fireman...and I
thought it was you.”
“It‟s okay, Springtime,” he
whispered, “I‟m okay.”
She closed her eyes, letting
him hold her close, resting her cheek on his chest.
When
she calmed down, she stepped back and saw his eyes shining at her through his
soot-streaked face.
“Your clothes may be ruined,”
he said.
She looked down to see smoke
stains on her T-shirt and shorts.
“I don‟t care.”
“You thought I was hurt, eh?
Came running over here, for…a friend?” He asked, staring into her eyes.
She backed away and dropped her
gaze.
“Because I don‟t want you to
get hurt doesn‟t...mean anything.”
He laughed. “Convince yourself,
April, because you won‟t convince me,” he said, draping his arm around her
shoulders as he walked over to the captain.
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A little bit about he book:
Fresh from graduate school, April McKenna, beautiful
and brilliant vows to strike out on a new path rather than return to San
Francisco to take a job with her father’s firm. She meets Rusty and sets off
for an escapade that ends in tragedy. Injured and alone she is taken in by
Sunny Davis, a friend of her mother’s who lives in a small town in the Catskill
Mountains in New York.
During her recovery, April resolves to carve out an
exotic life of travel and adventure. But she didn’t count on a sexy fireman
upsetting her plans. Gavin Dailey has dated practically every woman in the
county, but when he meets April, he knows he’s finally found the one he
wants. Only a stubborn man like Gavin wouldn’t
let April’s resistance to his charm and his small town change his plans.
Determined to win her, he pulls out all the stops until he encounters one
stumbling block he didn’t count on. Only a near-tragedy resurrected from the
past gives April the tenacity she needs to make the right decision for her life
in April’s Kiss in the Moonlight.
This is a sweet contemporary romance with no
explicit sex or bad language.
I love this scene! You've done a great job of showing April's fear, as well as building tension through the terse one-sided walkie-talkie conversation. Although I'd hate for April not to follow her dreams, I have a feeling Gavin would be worth it. I give this excerpt five stars.
ReplyDeleteOh, how sweet! I can feel April's frenzy, and it's interesting to see her deny her feelings even after rushing to his side.
ReplyDeleteI didn't realize I already had the book until Amazon told me. It's moved into my TBR pile
ReplyDeleteLot's of tension on different levels. Great sample.
ReplyDeleteYup now i have to have the book :)
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your kind words. I hope you like it Vesna.
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