Excerpt & Giveaway: Love in Darkness
E.M. Tippetts
Shattered Castles Book 2
New Adult, Contemporary Romance
Self-Published
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Alex had
everything when he was with Madison. But the darkness within him wouldn't go
away.
After two years apart, he returns to Pelican Bluffs and to the girl he never wanted to leave. Madison wants to give their love another chance, but Alex can't fight fate.
He is what he is.
Ruined. Crazy like his mother. And Madison deserves so much more. When his secrets spill out into their small town, Alex has a choice to make. Hide away in the darkness forever, or let love in.
After two years apart, he returns to Pelican Bluffs and to the girl he never wanted to leave. Madison wants to give their love another chance, but Alex can't fight fate.
He is what he is.
Ruined. Crazy like his mother. And Madison deserves so much more. When his secrets spill out into their small town, Alex has a choice to make. Hide away in the darkness forever, or let love in.
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Excerpt
My first memory of my mom’s schizophrenia is of her, locked in the
bathroom of our home back in California, shrieking that “they” were coming in
the windows. I was maybe four years old, and the only one able to talk to her
because she always lapses into Japanese when she gets scared. I didn’t know how
to call the police. I wasn’t even in kindergarten yet. I just sat outside the
bathroom door and begged her to let me in. Maternal instinct won out and she
opened the door, then told me to call for help. She showed me how to use the
phone.
After that, I became Mom’s protector. I was the one who made sure
she took her medication by begging her to open the childproof bottles and
dumping the pills into a pill sorter that put a dose in each compartment. I was
the one who warded off the social workers who wanted to take her away or me
away or both, by playing games and refusing to speak if they separated us. I
was the one who became her legal guardian when I turned eighteen. I’ll be the
one to look after her for the rest of her colorful and tortured life. Assuming
I can hold it together.
My life isn’t one I’d wish on my worst enemy. I love my mother, but
her condition destroyed my childhood. Whoever ends up responsible for me is in
for a similar catastrophe. There’s not much I can control about losing my mind,
but I can control this: The person responsible for me will never be Madison
Lukas. She deserves better than that. Even if I have to break my own heart a
thousand times over to give her freedom, I’ll do it, because I love her more
than she could ever imagine. She’s everything to me.
About the Author
Emily
Mah Tippetts writes romance under the name E.M. Tippetts and science fiction
and fantasy under the name Emily Mah. Originally from New Mexico, she now lives
in London with her family. Before she was a published author, she was an
attorney who specialized in real estate, contracts, and estate planning,
especially literary estate planning.
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Giveaway
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