Title: Forever & Always
Series: Two Hearts, One Soul Duet: Book Two
Genre(s): M/F Contemporary Romance
Heat Level: 4
Word Count: 119k
Author: London Saint James
Publisher: LSJ Romance
Publication Date: August 15, 2017
Cover Art: Book Cover by Design
Editor: Red Penn Services
Blurb:
From international bestselling author London Saint
James comes the final installment of Two Hearts, One Soul, a breathtaking story
of two people who have always been connected, forever tied together by fate, by
destiny, by unbreakable love.
With the media hell-bent on exposing Winter’s once private life, Cayden will do anything to protect her. But there’s more than just the voracious paparazzi conspiring against them.
Involved in an unprecedented web of strange events, and wound in a string of lies about to break with devastating consequences, Winter must battle ghosts from her past that threaten to harm the man she loves.
Faced with a choice she always knew would be inevitable, and a secret of her own, can the fairytale Winter’s been living with Cayden beat the odds of their reality and really come true?
With the media hell-bent on exposing Winter’s once private life, Cayden will do anything to protect her. But there’s more than just the voracious paparazzi conspiring against them.
Involved in an unprecedented web of strange events, and wound in a string of lies about to break with devastating consequences, Winter must battle ghosts from her past that threaten to harm the man she loves.
Faced with a choice she always knew would be inevitable, and a secret of her own, can the fairytale Winter’s been living with Cayden beat the odds of their reality and really come true?
Excerpt:
Thirteen years ago, I died.
While my death hadn’t been physical, it became a never-ending death of
the heart. A complete withering of the soul. You see, Austin Carlyle was my
everything. My best friend. My lover. The very air I breathed. The sun in my
world. My warmth. The beating of my heart. But the night before our wedding, my
heart would be ripped from me when Austin’s life ended in a horrific car crash.
A crash I ‘survived’ if that’s what you want to call it.
Unable to cope with Austin’s loss, I retreated deep within myself,
eventually leaving New York and my broken past behind. I found some semblance
of a new life in Colorado, living in the make-believe
worlds of the novels I wrote.
Three weeks ago, I returned to the place I knew would hold all the ghosts
of my past, though I came back to the Big Apple at the urging of an old
acquaintance, Zander Harrison—Austin’s one-time agent and friend. He convinced
me to help him with a script to a movie that had been put in a very expensive
holding pattern. The leading man hadn’t been happy with the direction of the
film and had requested Zander find me. I couldn’t imagine why. I wrote romance
novels. I wasn’t a script writer. But something about my books captured
Cayden—an A-list actor I’d never seen or heard of before. Of course, I’d soon find out not knowing who the
actor was, was ridiculous. I might have been living in my own personal dark
ages, but still. He was a megastar. However,
the real shocker would be what I faced when memories from the past came back to
haunt me.
Weak, bone-cold, sopping-wet, and on the verge of batshit crazy, I
stumbled into someone on Valentine’s Day—of all days—who shook me to my very
unsteady foundation. What I saw when I looked at him was the face of a
destroying angel, because it was like looking back in time at Austin. Oh, there were a
few things different, like the color of his hair being nowhere near the pitch
black of Austin’s, but so much about the man was baffling. He was the same
height—his build an exact match. His voice—eerily close in texture, tone, and
inflection. But if that’s not strange enough, he spoke with the same cadence.
Who was he?
The Hollywood heartthrob I’d never seen before—Cayden Cain.
After our
bizarre ‘introduction’ the need to know more about him ate at me like the slow
drip of acid. I had to find some answers, so I searched the internet. Surprised
by the results of my search would be an understatement. It was all too much.
Too unbelievable. Impossible. Cayden was twenty-three years old, the exact same
age Austin was when he was killed, but even stranger, Cayden had been born in
the same month, on the same day—May eighteenth—in the same city as Austin, only
years later.
But that’s not
all. There was a weird coincidence of Cayden being involved in a car accident.
One which tragically took the lives of his parents and left him the sole
survivor of that accident when he was
ten, putting this terrible happening around the same timeframe as the wreck
Austin and I were involved in. What was also baffling was the life path Cayden
took—acting. It was very close to the path Austin had taken and would have
continued to take if he’d been alive. By seventeen, Cayden had been the lead in
a small foreign film and moved to Hollywood shortly after, gaining his
groundbreaking role at the age of eighteen. The first movie Cayden obtained his
superstar recognition for was Longing.
Before
Austin’s death, he’d signed a movie deal with Paramount. What was the title of
the movie he was to begin filming after our wedding? Longing.
When I first
read that, I gaped—completely stunned. Then I read a synopsis of the movie, beyond
shocked to see it wasn’t just a coincidence of the title; it was the exact same
movie. I had no idea why Paramount shelved their project for so many years. But
to find it had finally been completed with Cayden as the leading man, well,
what were the odds of such a thing?
Even with all
the uncanny coincidences and the almost carbon copy similarities in appearance,
what was truly unbelievable? Cayden’s eyes—the same shades of blue from my
past. They captured me, looking straight into my soul—the eyes of my love. My
life.
Everything changed.
Trust me, I tried to fight against the truth—the pull I hadn’t felt in so
very long—but it was no use. I’d come to believe, as crazy as it might seem,
some way, somehow, Austin saved me through Cayden. It was as though they were
two hearts, one soul. Cayden himself spoke as though he’d always known me.
Missed me. Loved me even. I couldn’t explain how it was possible, but he, like
Austin, was the missing piece of my heart.
With his touch, Cayden brought me back to life, reawakened dormant
feelings, and gave me what had long been missing—Winter Perri. The only
problem, I wasn’t sure I could live in Cayden’s superstar, paparazzi infested
world.
“Will you stay
with me?” he’d asked.
I gave the
only answer that made any sense at all.
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About
the Author:
London Saint James has lived in many places, but never
felt “at home” until she met the real-life man of her dreams and settled down
in the beautiful Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. London lives with her husband
and their fat cat who thinks he owns them.
As an award-winning, international bestselling author, London is living her childhood dream. She knew all the scribbling she did, that big imagination of hers, and all those clamoring characters running around in her head would pay off someday.
As an award-winning, international bestselling author, London is living her childhood dream. She knew all the scribbling she did, that big imagination of hers, and all those clamoring characters running around in her head would pay off someday.
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