This week I'm reading
Keeping Secrets by Kiru Taye and participating in First Chapter, First Paragraph hosted by
Bibliophile By The Sea as well as Teaser Tuesday hosted by MizB of
Should Be Reading.
Here is the opener from Chapter 1:
“Mrs. Essien, your husband is out of his coma.”
Phone pressed against one ear, the other hand reaching for the remote control, Ebony
bolted upright. Her hand shook as she fumbled to mute the television news channel she’d
been watching. The discarded controller clanked onto the clear, glass-topped side table.
“D...did I hear you correctly? Felix is awake?” She couldn’t hide the tremor in her voice,
nor relax her tight-knuckled grip on the overstuffed arm of the upholstered cream sofa.
Disbelief warred with hope, trampling all over her troubled mind.
Here's my teaser:
“I...I’m Ebony,” she said, and waited for a sign of recognition from him. When none
came, his face remaining impassive, she continued.
“Your wife. Don’t you remember me?”
~ pg 13 pdf,
Keeping Secrets by Kiru Taye.
The Blurb:
Have you ever loved someone and didn’t even know it?
That’s the dilemma facing Felix Essien when he wakes from a coma to find he is married
to the most beautiful and sensual woman he’s ever known. He cannot remember her or their
wedding; he who had sworn never to get married or to give his heart to another. Yet, he feels
an intense bond with her that he intends to explore fully.
Ebony can’t believe her good fortune when her paper husband wakes not remembering the
temporary marriage arrangement with no intimacies he’d proposed, and is now the adoring
husband she’s always dreamt of.
She plans to make the most of the passion blossoming between them. However, would he
still feel that way when he regains his memory and realises she’s been keeping secrets and
their marriage is not what he thinks it is?
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Maya xx
