Author: Kaye Kennedy
Burning for You Release
Date: January 17, 2021
Amazon Buy Link: https://amzn.to/38Sa9JH
ASIN: B08T82WDMG
E-Book Cost: $3.99 +
Free on Kindle Unlimited
Print Book Cost: $13.99
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56365246-burning-for-you
Tagline: Sometimes,
first love is better the second time around.
Short
Description:
Kyle and Allie had been
best friends since they were four, but then he’d fallen in love with her. The
night before she had left for college, he’d told her, and he never saw her
again. He also never stopped loving her.
Sixteen years later, she’s
back. Kyle wants answers, but she won’t let what had happened between them that
fateful night destroy him, too. She fears the past will come back to burn them
in the present, but keeping her distance is much easier said than done.
Extended
Description:
Sometimes, first love is
better the second time around.
Kyle
I was four when I met
Allie Dupree.
Ten when I stopped
thinking she had cooties.
Fourteen when I realized
I was in love with her.
And eighteen when I
finally told her.
Then I never saw her
again. I also never forgot her. And my heart never let her go.
Sixteen years after she’d
disappeared without a word, she’s back and there’s no way in hell I’m letting
her get away again. Especially because there are still burning embers of what
we had. And, at the very least, I think I deserve some answers.
Allie
Returning to New York had
never been a part of my plan. But having to watch my ex-husband move on with
his pregnant fiancée before the ink had even dried on our divorce papers had
made staying in Michigan impossible.
The odds of running into
Kyle Hogan in Manhattan were one in three-million. But sure enough, my first
month back, I came face-to-face with the one person I’d never wanted to see
again.
What had happened sixteen
years ago had ruined my life, and Kyle can never find out that secret. I won’t
let it destroy him, too.
Will their old flame be
enough or will it come back to burn them? Again.
Excerpt
#1:
Kyle
“It destroyed me,” she
whispered. “And I didn’t want it to destroy you too.”
I hugged her again
because I had to. Despite all of the agony and anguish she’d gone through, she
was protecting me. And that right there was why I’d loved her for twenty years,
no matter how much I’d tried not to.
Excerpt
#2:
Kyle
“What’d I tell you?” She
muttered into my ear.
“You were right.” I
squeezed her tighter. “Thank you for being my faith.”
“I’m not.” She rubbed my
back. “You had it all along, I just reminded you.”
“No. You had it for me.
And I had you.”
Excerpt
#3:
Kyle
“I love you, Kyle.”
My chest warmed. “I love
you, too.”
With her forehead still
resting against mine, she sighed. “I don’t know how I got so lucky to have you
as my best friend, and I know I don’t say it enough, but you mean everything to
me.”
I squeezed my eyes shut
because I knew then that we couldn’t risk losing that, no matter how much I
wanted her to be mine. A best friend was exactly who she needed at that moment.
I pulled back and kissed her forehead. “You mean everything to me, too.”
Excerpt
#4:
Kyle
The bell jingled when I
opened the door to the liquor store and I raised my chin at the guy behind the
counter before going in search of the wine aisle. Foil tops poked out two
aisles down, so I made my way over there, assuming that they were champagne. As
I turned down the aisle, my eyes caught sight of a familiar head of
chocolate-colored hair and my feet froze to the tile.
As involuntarily as my
breath, her name slipped out of my mouth, “Allie?”
She glanced up from the
Chardonnays and her bronze eyes widened as she turned toward me. The bottle she
was holding slipped from her hand and her foot broke its fall, preventing it
from shattering. It had to have hurt, but she didn’t even flinch. She simply
stared at me with her mouth agape as the bottle rolled under the shelf.
My blood drained to my
feet as every last feeling I’d had for her since we were four came rushing back
like they’d never left. Sixteen years ago. When she did.
I didn’t know if I should
run away and scream, or run to her and pull her into my arms.
I wanted to do both, so I
didn’t do either.
We stood in the wine
aisle, neither of us making a move beyond staring in silence.
I was ten feet from the
one that got away, and the sight of her told me what my heart already knew: she
may have gotten away, but I had never let her go.
Trope
List:
💚 Friends to lovers
💙 Second chance romance
💔 Angst
🔥 Slow burn
👨🚒 Man in uniform
💋 Steamy
