The
novellas written by the 12 NA’s of
Christmas will be on sale beginning December 1st! From December
1st-11th, each day one of the novellas will be
highlighted around the book community. Today, the novella spotlight is Off the Market by Magan Vernon. Check out
the excerpt and enter the giveaway!
You
can buy any of the 12 NA’s of Christmas titles on Amazon.
Etta Davis didn't have showing a house
penciled into her Christmas plans, but with the other realtors already off
enjoying their holiday, she'd been stuck with the task. It wasn't all bad
though, the house up for grabs used to belong to the family of her high school
sweetheart, Andrew Larson. Though now dilapidated, thanks to its current
owners, it still held the power to bring back forgotten memories and turn the
routine showing into something else entirely. Particularly when Andrew shows
up, wanting to buy the house. Now Etta must decide whether a second chance is
worth taking the house, and her heart, off the market.
EXCERPT
ETTA
DAVIS STILL hadn’t aged a day in my mind, even the way she said my name,
Andrew. I remembered the first time she talked to me, how her voice was a
little deeper than the other girls on the playground and I found it incredibly
attractive even at such a young age. She eventually grew into her voice and her
body. I couldn’t forget her long legs and the way she wrapped them around me.
The way she moaned my name and arched her back when I was inside of her. And
now she was back, standing in front of me like nothing had ever changed. Maybe
it hadn’t.
I
brushed my fingers on the butcher block countertop. I remembered my mom
insisted that we must have them in our kitchen. Dad thought they were silly and
going to get cut up, but he always gave into my mom. I smiled to myself,
thinking about how many times I sat there with Etta, pretending to do homework
when really I just spent the whole time glancing over at how good she looked.
When I found an ad for my parents’ former house in one of the free real estate
magazines at the gas station, I was intrigued. But when I saw Etta’s big brown
eyes staring back at me from the corner of the ad, I knew I had to see it.
I loved
her. Part of me still did. Even though it was years ago that we were together
and she broke up with me when she left for college, I still couldn’t get her
out of my head. When I heard she moved
back to town I couldn’t figure out a way to contact her, but after almost two
years, walking around and debating what to do, I decided that the ad was a
sign. Even if it was Christmas Eve.
“Would
you like to see the rest of the house, Andrew?” Etta asked.
I looked
back over at the girl I loved. Did she still love me? She definitely wasn’t the
same girl I remembered; there was something different about her. She was older
and it was as if all those years added some wisdom. She knew what she was
talking about when she pointed out every nook and cranny of the house,
explaining the plumbing changes and what the inspector had seen. She also
looked different, that was for sure, but I liked the new look. I always thought
she was too skinny, all those years of dance kept her as thin as a rail and now
I wanted to run my hands down the new curves of her body. I wanted to rip the
skirt right off of her and delicately, slowly peel her tights off and feel
those legs around me. But I had to keep my head in check. Maybe she didn’t feel
the same way. Maybe I was just making a fool of myself.
Magan Vernon is a Young Adult and New
Adult writer who lives with her family in the insurance capital of the world.
When not writing she spends her time fighting over fake boyfriends via social
media. You can find her online at
GoodReads:
https://www.goodreads.com/maganvernon
website: www.maganvernon.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-Magan-Vernon/215620155165079
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaganVernon
About the 12 NA’s of Christmas
The 12 NA’s of
Christmas authors are Marquita
Valentine, Zoe Dawson, Chelsea M. Cameron, Tiffany King, Breena Wilde, Sawyer
Bennett, Magan Vernon, Sarra Cannon, A. Meredith Walters, Shelly Crane, and
Addison Moore.
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