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Today’s post includes another snippet from my newest release WHISPERS OF HER MEMORIES. The story is set in New Zealand, South Island.
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Today’s Hook
Eyes wide, she asked, “What do you mean?”
“You know exactly what I’m talking about.” He shook his head. “Sofia deserves better. She was too old to look after the house, and it’s been six months now since she passed. The house needs some serious cleaning. You should’ve at least done that.”
Lucy elbowed him into his arms. “You’re offering your services?”
He choked back a snort. “Nope.”
She sighed. “Work is crazy at the moment. I’m all over the place. Everyone is buying a house all of a sudden, and Amy’s busy with helping Troy in the hotel.” She gave him a bit of a nudge. “Please,” she begged.
“Nope.”
“Theoretically, it’s not my fault, but Sofia left it in a terrible state.”
“Theoretically, that is correct, but you modified the images you sent to her granddaughter.”
Lucy blew out a big breath. “I know it wasn’t perfect, but we needed her to come. It’s Sofia’s house. It needs to stay in the family.”
Cameron turned to meet her gaze. “Why?”
With a shrug, she said, “Because it’s Sofia’s granddaughter. I’m sure she’ll be just as much fun.”
“Sofia found out she had a granddaughter a year before she’d died. If she had wanted to meet her, she would’ve had enough time to do so.”
Lucy nodded. “But why add her into her will?”
Cameron shrugged and downed the rest of his beer before he stood. “Guilt for leaving her daughter behind? Either way, you meddled with it. You fix it yourself.”
Blurb
Mallory O’Neill swaps the buzz of Melbourne for the quiet shores of Anahera Bay, New Zealand, hoping for a fresh start… not secrets and surprises. But the crumbling seaside cottage left to her by Sofia—the grandmother she never knew—holds more than just dust and disrepair. It holds the key to a family history her late mother never spoke of.
As Mallory pieces together Sofia’s past, she faces the doubts of old friends and the arrival of an unexpected stranger. Along the way, she finds friendships among the locals, but she also meets resistance from the brooding handyman, Cameron Quinn, a man haunted by his own past.
When faded letters, old photographs, and buried truths come to light, Mallory and Cameron find themselves drawn together by grief, memory, and a spark neither of them expected.
