Series: Don't Sweet Romance #1
Publication date: October 27th, 2020
Synopsis:
The only thing stopping Shae from living her best life is the fact that she's dying.
Together with her social media followers, popular travel vlogger Shae hides her illness from the world and lives every day like it's her last. Her picture perfect life is only missing one thing--love, because for Shae, it's no better to have loved and lost--it's better not to love at all.
Emmett knows all about loss--he had it all until the death of his wife sent his life spinning out of control. It took him three years to pull himself together, trading ball diamonds for the strawberry patch and sweet corn fields of the family farm but now it's time for him to take another chance at love.
After Emmett escorts Shae down the aisle at his sister's wedding, he falls hard. One glimpse of her fun-filled life and Emmett knows he's ready to be a part of it.
As they spend more time together, Shae fights against her feelings. How can she let him love her when it's only going to lead to more heartache? But it's hard to keep her distance, especially when Emmett is fighting for her heart.
Is love the one thing Shae can't live without?
Don't Tell Me You Love Me is the first book of the Don't Sweet Romance series, a picture-perfect tale of first love, second chances, and living your best life. Fall in love with Shae and Emmett today.
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Excerpt
A sudden guitar riff from one of the roadies has the crowd rushing to the stage, almost knocking me off my feet. When I look up, Dawson is gone. I jump up and down as Denzel strums a few chords, trying to see over the heads of the group of girls that have moved in front of me. We can't lose this footage.
A hand on my shoulder stops me. It's one of the roadies we've gotten friendly with, the one I nicknamed The Rock.
"Need a hand?" He towers over me like some tree hidden in an old-time forest. My face must show my confusion because he touches his shoulder. "C'mon, get up here so you can see."
He kneels and I clamor onto his linebacker shoulders, which gives me an excellent view of the stage. This is more like it because I can see Dawson right up at the front.
"You okay up there, Shae?" Neely calls up to me with a concerned smile.
I grin widely in response. "Perfect." Then I turn my attention to Denzel, who starts to sing.
Pink hair, dark eyes
I watch you watching me
Big smile, wide eyes
I love you loving me
Is he...? Is this...? My jaw drops as excitement turns into a tingling feeling of wonderment.
Pink hair, dark eyes
I like you following me
Big smile, wide eyes
I want you in my life
Neely turns with an expression of disbelief. "Is this song about you?" she shouts over the noise.
Denzel Duke wrote a song about me? About me?
"He wrote a song about you!" Neely cries, for once excitement breaking past her usual cool composure. A few feet away, Dawson comes to the same conclusion and turns the phone to me sitting on the guy's shoulders and being serenaded by one of pop music's fastest rising stars.
If there was any doubt in anyone's mind who Denzel is singing to, the fact that he catches my eyes with a big smile, and actually stops playing to hold out his hand confirms it.
"Oh my God!" Neely is now jumping up and down.
Still with me perched on his shoulders, the security guard pushes his way through the crowd to the edge of the stage. The crowd parts with a collective mutinous expression when the females realize I am Pink Hair of the song. I can't stop my grin even if I wanted to, my heart bouncing faster than the music.
Denzel Duke puts down his guitar as I awkwardly transfer from shoulders to stage.
I'm onstage with Denzel Duke!
He meets me in the middle of the stage and takes my hand, giving me a twirl before leading me into a slow dance in front of a thousand screaming fans, all singing to me.
Sometimes I really love my life.
Holly Kerr is the author of fifteen chick-lit, romantic comedy, and women's fiction novels, but don't ask her to explain the differences in the genres. She grew up a farm girl but now calls Toronto home, where she lives with her three very tall children, following their sports exploits like any dutiful mother.
She's a lover of Marvel movies, Star Wars movies... really, any movies, and has a surprising amount of worthless pop culture info stored in her head. She likes oceans over mountains, tea over coffee, and can mix a darn fine dirty martini, with extra olives, of course.
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