What She Wanted
by Julie
Anne Lindsey
GENRE: YA
Romance
BLURB:
It seems Katy has
been waiting for her eighteenth birthday all her life. Raised by a grandfather
who never got over losing Katy’s mother to cancer at a young age, she’s dreamed
of a life free of the burdens of her family’s tragedies. But just before her
birthday, she learns tragedy isn’t finished telling its story . . .
Before she can begin
her new life, Katy’s grandfather suffers a heart attack, a box of her mother’s
keepsakes, including a journal written to Katy while she was in her mother’s
womb, at his side. Believing the only thing her grandpa loves enough to live
for is her mother’s memory, Katy reads to him from the journal every night at
the hospital. Night after night, line after line, Katy begins to see herself as
her mother saw her in her dreams. Buoyed by her mother’s undying love and
conviction, Katy vows to make her mother’s sacrifice mean something and
promises to fulfill all her mother’s requests. Even the hard ones. Especially
those . . .
Excerpt:
I grabbed the packing tape and
bounced to my feet. “I already have enough in savings to pay the difference
plus first month’s rent. I just need to hurry up and turn eighteen so I can
sign that lease agreement.” I dragged a line of tape across the top of one
unsealed box.
Heidi squealed. “We’re going to have
so much fun in your new apartment this summer. It’ll be even better in the
fall, when you go to Kent with me.”
“There won’t be room for another
freshman in the dorms by the time I have my birthday and apply. Kent’s too far
to commute.” I glanced at my laptop. The flags outside the New York Film
Academy billowed in the wind. I’d researched every photography school in the
world, looking for my dream escape, and that was it. NYFA had been created by
Jerry Sherlock, a veteran producer and sheer genius. He’d designed the school
to put students into their craft immediately. He believed in learning by doing.
I’d be surrounded with students like me: film students, performing arts
students, peers studying acting, cinematography, and my favorite, photography.
That was the short list. My heart sank impossibly lower. “Next year, okay?”
She deflated. “At least try.”
AUTHOR BIO:
Julie Anne Lindsey is a multi-genre author who writes
the stories that keep her up at night. She’s a self-proclaimed nerd with a
penchant for words and proclivity for fun. Mother of three, wife to a sane
person and Ring Master at the Lindsey Circus, most days you'll find her online,
amped up on caffeine and wielding a book. Julie started writing to make people
smile. Someday she plans to change the world.
Julie is a member of the International Thriller
Writers (ITW), Sisters in Crime (SinC) and the Canton Writer’s Guild.
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Have you written any other novels in collaboration with other writers?
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