First Look/Excerpt Reveal: EMINENT LOVE by Leddy Harper
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About
EMINENT LOVE
Life doesn’t always start with once upon a time. Love
doesn’t always end with happily ever after. After spending five years with the
love of my life, I did nothing to stop her from walking away. She had her
reasons to leave. I had my reasons to stay. But a year later, the realization
of loss hits me, and I’ll stop at nothing to fix it. I leave everything behind
to drive across the country to win her back, and I refuse to accept anything
other than fulfilling old promises. But the only certainty in life is: nothing
is as expected. The most valuable lessons don’t often revolve around a
fairytale ending—frequently, they come from hurt and healing. They come from
the kind of personal growth love offers. The mending of your heart, your soul,
and your life. And every once in a while, you find the greatest gifts in the
packages you never expected to open.
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I’ve done nothing for a year other than think of her
and remember how good I’d had it. How healing her love was for me. How I’d
never find anything resembling it again. Not like I’d tried, but that didn’t
mean anything. Nothing had meaning without her. Nothing. I inhaled deeply, my heart hammering away…and I pressed
call. My breathing ceased as it rang. Once. Twice. Three times. And then her
voice came through the line. Such a soft sound, like a melody. Warm and
soothing, just like her. The air blew out harshly past my lips as I readied
myself to speak, to recite the words I’d held onto for a year. Although, before
my lungs completely deflated, my breath caught in my chest, burning me from the
inside out.
“Hey, you’ve reached Layne. Well, not really. You’ve
reached my voicemail. I wasn’t able to get to my phone fast enough, but if you
leave a message, I’ll call ya right back.”
With my eyes closed, I could picture her perfectly.
Her smile was evident in her voice, in the way she spoke with a lilt at the end
of her words. Pain. That’s what
listening to her voice filled me with. Immense torture. I couldn’t even form
enough thought to come up with something to say. When the beep sounded, I
didn’t speak. One second. Two. Three. Four seconds of complete silence dragged
out before I finally ended the call.
“Fucking stupid idiot,” I said aloud as I slammed the
phone down on the table.
My face immediately fell into my hands. Of course she
didn’t answer. She had no reason to. She’d said all she needed to say in the
email she’d sent about a month after we’d broken up. An email I’d disregarded
for weeks before finding the patience to open it. I should’ve responded then. I
should’ve done something.
However, I chose to dismiss her and the entire situation. It had been easier at
the time because I’d allowed the fury inside to burn stronger until any ounce
of compassion regarding her or our life together had been decimated, charred
beyond recognition. Turned into ashes and then carried away by the wind.
About Leddy Harper
Leddy Harper had to
use her imagination often as a child. She grew up the only girl in a house full
of boys. At the age of fourteen, she decided to use that imagination and wrote
her first book, and never stopped. She often calls writing her therapy, using
it as a way to deal with issues through the eyes of her characters.
She is now a mother
of three girls, leaving her husband as the only man in a house full of females.
The decision to publish her first book was made as a way of showing her
children to go after whatever it is they want to. Love what you do and do it
well. Most importantly Leddy wanted to teach them what it means to overcome
their fears.
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