#MFRWHooks “There was no turning back anymore.” #lovestory #amreading #love #Booksky #NewRelease

 

Hi everyone ♥

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

Everyone moved off their chairs and reached for their luggage. It was chaotic for the next ten minutes, with most of the passengers trying to get out at the same time.

Mallory stayed in her seat. A sudden sadness and worry overwhelmed her. There was no turning back anymore. It was going to be different. Of course it would be; after all, she was moving from a metropolitan city to a small coastal town with a thousand or so people, if that. Everything familiar was back in Australia, and she needed to find her feet again in so many ways.

She held back the tears, took one of the serviettes she’d forgotten to hand over as rubbish, and cleared her nose.

Yet, the journey had only just begun, and she knew she was capable of embracing the possibilities that lay ahead in her new home despite her worries. Her mother had raised her to be independent and strong, and she’d be disappointed if she saw Mallory fail at this … as she had with so many things since her mother passed.

The old man beside her shifted in his seat, clearly struggling a little with the small overhead bag above him. Without hesitation, Mallory stood and offered, “Let me help you with that.” She carefully pulled it down and handed it to him with a warm smile.

“You have a wonderful holiday, aye,” the old man said as they disembarked.

She smiled again, touched by his kindness. “I sure will. Thank you.”

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.

 

 

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