by Ava Zavora
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Expected Publication September 16th 2013 by Createspace
Buy Links: B&N
“You’re the more real to me than any man I’ve ever known … ”
To book blogger Eden, Adam is the embodiment of every literary fantasy she’s ever had. Intelligent, wickedly funny, sexy, and attentive – he and his fascinating life seem right out of a novel. Their whirlwind relationship is so intense and all consuming that soon she can’t imagine being with anyone else.
But there’s one little thing that’s keeping Adam and Eden from their happily ever after.
They’ve never met. She doesn’t even know what he looks like.
Despite how hard she’s fallen for him and how he makes her feel, Eden’s doubts begin to threaten their passionate love affair. Why is he so mysterious? Why does he seem reluctant to meet her? What is Adam hiding?
Afraid that she’s being made a fool of, Eden is forced to choose between her heart and her head. Is Adam too good to be true, as her common sense is telling her, or is the truth more startling than fiction?
EXCERPT
"Eden,
no one who knows me would ever believe how we met. Or that I am now a willing
slave to our e-mails and Skype talks. You have to understand how strange this
is for me. Two weeks ago, if a friend of mine had told me he found a woman online,
I wouldn't hesitate telling him to run the other way and not look back."
"But
we haven't met," she reminded him. She debated on whether or not to bring
up the topic that had lately begun to insinuate itself into her every other
thought.
"When,"
she started to ask hopefully. A definite when, not if. "When do you think
we'll be able to meet?"
It
worried her that he hadn't asked yet to meet her. Was she not enticing enough?
Was she taking the whole thing too seriously? Was he still deciding if she could
be trusted? Despite how much time they've spent together, she was starting to
doubt herself. Maybe he didn't think she was worth flying halfway across the
world.
His
reply was swift. "Six months." His tone was firm. This topic was
non-negotiable. "At least."
"Six
months!" Eden exclaimed.
"I
could be there tomorrow," he relented, softening a little. "But I
can't leave my business for too long. It's at a critical phase at the moment
and I need to be here to make sure nothing gets overlooked. And for our first
meeting, I'd want us to have at least a week, maybe two. More importantly, we
can’t rush things, Edie."
"I'm
not saying tomorrow," Eden said, deflated. "But six months?"
He
cautioned against rushing things, but earlier he was hinting of a future
together. It was becoming more difficult each day to let him go, no matter how
much they e-mailed, no matter how long they talked. Even in the midst of
conversation, she would be overwhelmed with an unexpected ache of missing him.
His physical absence was a hollow, ever present void.
"We
could be really amazing, you and I. But if we are going to do this, I want to
do it properly. I want it to last. And that takes time. The best things are
worth waiting for. We are worth waiting for. When it’s right," he
said in a voice that was unshakably certain, "Name the place. Name the
date. Name the hour. And I will fly anywhere in the world to meet you."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ava Zavora
In my childhood, I used to ride water buffaloes and wade in swamps. When I discovered books, I would go adventuring with Anne of Green Gables, the Pevensies, Bilbo Baggins, or Alanna of Trebond. I incurred my mother's displeasure for reading too many romance novels, so I learned to hide them and read underneath covers with a flashlight late at night. Nowadays, I travel and write dark fairy tales and romantic novels about adventurous women. And I still stay up too late reading, even though I don't get in trouble for it anymore.
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