Title: Today’s
Promises
Series: Promises #2
Author: S.R. Grey
Genre: New
Adult/Coming of Age Romance
Release Date: September
8, 2016
Blurb
Starting over isn’t easy, especially when the past keeps
coming back to haunt you.
Flynn O’Neill and Jaynie Cumberland thought life outside the foster care system
would be a breeze. Now eighteen and sharing a home in the quaint, little town
of Lawrence, West Virginia, their new start should be nothing short of idyllic.
Unfortunately, it is not.
Flynn and Jaynie are discovering that picking up the pieces of their shattered
lives and moving forward is far from easy, particularly when the past keeps
rearing its ugly head. And then, as if things weren’t tough enough, they are
told the evil Allison Lowry, their former foster sister, may be released from
prison early.
Committed to not allowing that to happen, Flynn and Jaynie begin to search for
ways to keep their former tormentor behind bars. In doing so, dark secrets are
uncovered. But instead of setting this young couple back, these new
developments allow Jaynie and Flynn to grow closer than ever. As their commitment
to one another deepens, these two broken people find new purpose and, more
importantly, realize the healing they so deeply desire is finally within reach.
Today’s Promises is the beautiful, stirring conclusion to Flynn and Jaynie’s
journey that first began inTomorrow’s Lies.
Excerpt
I’m brought back to
the present when I hear Jaynie drop something in the bathroom. Scrubbing a hand
down my face, I’m torn over how best to help her. It’s hard to help someone
when your own life is a freaking mess.
I hear Jaynie
tearing open a candy bar and mutter, “Fuck.”
Rolling to my back,
I rest my arm over my eyes. I’ve eaten plenty lately, but my stomach, as if on
cue, begins to rumble. It’s like all this thinking about starving has reminded
me of what it actually feels like to go days without food.
We are still both
so fucked-up. Will we ever heal?
“Fuck it.” I throw
back the quilt and head toward the bathroom. “Jaynie…” I rap on the door, once,
twice, three times. “Let me in. Please.”
The door opens
slowly, revealing my broken girl. She stands before me, a half-eaten candy bar
in one hand and chocolate smudged all over her chin.
“Busted,” I say.
I’m trying to tease
her to lighten the mood, but it sounds lame and pathetic.
“Sorry,” she
mumbles.
I reach out and,
using my thumb, wipe away evidence of her binge. “Don’t be silly. There’s no
need for apologies. I was only kidding around.”
“All right, Flynn.”
When my stomach
growls again, there’s no hiding I’m in the same boat as her. We’re like
Pavlov’s freaking dogs, I swear.
“Hey,” I say softly,
“think you could spare one for me?”
Smiling for the
first time since I caught her red-handed—or chocolate-chinned, as it were—her
deep green eyes sparkle.
Pulling me into the
bathroom, she says, “Just get in here, Flynn.”
We spend the next
ten minutes gorging on chocolate. And the reason is simple—when you’ve lived
the lives we’ve lived, all within eighteen short years, you don’t take chances.
You cover your bases. You live prepared. You eat when you can since you never
know when the food might run out, or when it will be withheld from you.
The bottom line is
that you absolutely must be ready for things to turn bad,
because they always fucking do.
“Hey, can I have
another?” I ask as I polish off candy bar number three.
Jaynie hands me five
more, and then wisely suggests I look for a spot to hide four of them.
“You know,” she
says, shrugging, “in case my stash ever runs out.”
“I’ll find a good
place,” I promise her. “And then I’ll let you know where it is.”
“You do that,
Flynn,” she replies, her eyes holding mine. “But after you tell me, don’t let
anyone else know where you hid them. Like…ever.”
I nod, agreeing to
her terms. Hell, it makes perfect sense.
What can I say—old
habits die hard.
Author Bio
S.R. Grey is an
Amazon Top 100 and #1 Barnes & Noble Bestselling author. She is the author
of the popular Judge Me Not series, the new Promises series, the Inevitability
duology, A Harbour Falls Mystery trilogy, and the Laid Bare series of novellas.
Ms. Grey’s works have appeared on multiple Amazon Bestseller lists, including
Top 100 multiple times, as well as #1 on Barnes & Noble Bestselling Nook
books.
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