Title: Beautifully Awake
Author: Riley Mackenzie
Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance
Release
Date: October
2, 2013
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Synopsis
Diagnosis:
Sleep-running
Treatment:
Truth
Prognosis:
Beautifully Awake
Lili
Porter hates the rain. Bad things happen in the rain. As a small town social
worker dedicated to protecting children, she is forced to start over to escape
her rural disaster. Determined to follow her father’s advice—head up and chin
high—Lili finds herself in a new city, taking on a new system, this time
healthcare. In doing so, she gets something she never expected, an intimate behind-the-scenes
look at life in the hospital.
Lili
learns that a surgeon’s hands have the power to heal more than physical wounds.
And a prescription for truth can cure three years of sleep running and leave
you beautifully awake.
Excerpt
I
washed up and had just enough time to tug on a clean tank and thong and then
climbed back into bed. I heard his footsteps. Excitement and relief washed
through me. A small part of me feared he might have changed his mind, but my
insecurity vanished the second his chiseled face appeared from the darkness.
His
shirt hung open. He folded his arms across his chest and casually leaned
against the wall, studying me like the MRI images he methodically memorized
before each surgery.
“You
moved?” His lips parted into a half grin, and he shook his head disapprovingly.
“You
took too long.”
“You
put clothes on.”
“You
might need some new clothes.” I smiled.
“You’re fucking beautiful.”
Speechless.
About the Authors
Yep.
That's an “s.” There are two of us!
We’re East coast girls separated by Long Island Sound who met in Physician Assistant School and have been besties ever since. We can safely say that thirteen miles of water does not get in the way because we talk or text, no exaggeration, at least 150 times a day. No, really, we do—about everything and nothing. Shockingly, we never (we mean never) run out of things to say. Umm, ever. We definitely laugh A LOT and we’re a tad sarcastic. And if we’re being totally honest, one or two people might have, on occasion, used our names and ‘dramatic’ in the same sentence. But it’s hard to trust the sources since they married us.
We’re East coast girls separated by Long Island Sound who met in Physician Assistant School and have been besties ever since. We can safely say that thirteen miles of water does not get in the way because we talk or text, no exaggeration, at least 150 times a day. No, really, we do—about everything and nothing. Shockingly, we never (we mean never) run out of things to say. Umm, ever. We definitely laugh A LOT and we’re a tad sarcastic. And if we’re being totally honest, one or two people might have, on occasion, used our names and ‘dramatic’ in the same sentence. But it’s hard to trust the sources since they married us.
It
only took twelve years, two husbands, five kids, two dogs, and a two-week
vacation in Cape Cod later to decide the romance world needed a splash of
medicine. Write what you know.
So you can easily find us at 4 o'clock on Bank Street beach with a glass of cold Prosecco brainstorming. And guaranteed if we bump into you, literally, it’s only because our iPhones are glued to our hands (totally out of our control) either writing or editing our next novel (and yes, it is possible to do from your iPhone, we mastered it … damn those straight quotations).
So you can easily find us at 4 o'clock on Bank Street beach with a glass of cold Prosecco brainstorming. And guaranteed if we bump into you, literally, it’s only because our iPhones are glued to our hands (totally out of our control) either writing or editing our next novel (and yes, it is possible to do from your iPhone, we mastered it … damn those straight quotations).
When
we are not working on our book or reading the latest angsty romance on our
kindles, you basically name it and we have it going on. Soccer, lacrosse, golf,
swimming, dance, gymnastics, football, chess, baseball, basketball, skiing, ice
skating, school, homework, and more school.
Oh yeah, did we forget to mention our careers in medicine?
Oh yeah, did we forget to mention our careers in medicine?
Needless
to say, we realized fast that something had to go, so we opted for sleep. It’s
completely overrated (yet so AMAZING) and delirium makes everything funnier.
Good thing we share a brain and can pretty much complete each other’s sentences
(definitely weird, we know), otherwise it might have taken us two years to
write Beautifully Awake rather than one.
So
that’s our story, who we are … just add AUTHORS to the list!
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