Only With You by Cecilia Gray
(The Jane Austen Academy Series #5)
Publication date: May 2014
Genres: Romance, Young Adult
Synopsis:
(The Jane Austen Academy Series #5)
Publication date: May 2014
Genres: Romance, Young Adult
Synopsis:
Dive into the fabulous, fun lives of six Academy girls as
their friendships are tested, torn and ultimately triumph…
Emma has it
all – looks, money, and luck. It’s not like she keeps it all to herself – she’s
totally committed to helping those less fortunate. AKA, everyone. She invites
her heartbroken friend to help with a weekend charity event with an eye to
match make, but when that friend turns her eye toward the guy Emma wants for
herself, how will she choose between friendship and her own feelings?
The last thing
that the girls at the elite Jane Austen Academy need is hot guys to flirt with.
But over the summer the school has been sold, and like it or not, the guys are
coming. And it’s about to turn the Academy—and the lives of its students—totally
upside down…
The Jane
Austen Academy series are modern retellings of Jane Austen classics set at a
beach side California boarding school.
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AUTHOR BIO:
Cecilia Gray lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she
reads, writes and breaks for food. She also pens her biographies in the
third person. Like this. As if to trick you into thinking someone
else wrote it because she is important. Alas, this is not the case.
She’s rather enamored of being contacted by readers and hopes you’ll oblige.
She’s rather enamored of being contacted by readers and hopes you’ll oblige.
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Excerpt:
Emma slipped into her
pink silk camisole and sat in front of her vanity. She usually continued her
nightly ritual with fifty strokes of her wide-toothed comb along her scalp to
stimulate hair growth, followed by dry brushing and moisturizing head to toe. The
same routine a starlet had taught her mom years ago and that her mom had then
taught her. Gail Greene was famous for her youthful beauty, and Emma wanted to
be famous for everything her mom was famous for.
Her door swung open,
and in her vanity mirror's reflection, she saw Knight charge in, still dressed
in jeans and a dark-gray tee, his hair sticking up in every direction. She
whirled around. "Knight! What the—"
"What is this
weekend really about Emma?" Knight stopped in front of her and crossed his
arms. His gaze dipped a moment but shot back up to her face, more irate than
ever. "Don't tell me it's about saving puppies."
Emma folded her arms
over her chest. "This weekend is about a lot of things. I told you. I'm a
multitasker. I want to spend time with my friends. And yeah, I want to save a
few puppies."
"I'd be fine
with all that, but this is also about you trying to set up Anne and Josh."
He paused a beat as if waiting for her to deny it. His voice was strangled.
"Emma—"
"So what? Why
shouldn't I want to set up Anne and Josh?"
Knight's face pulled
into a look of utter distaste. "Don't tell me you'd do that to Anne.
Especially after what Josh did to you. Why would you waste that extraordinary
energy on him?"
"Why,
Knight," she said when a sharp spear of pain lanced through her at his
biting remark, "I believe you just called me extraordinary."
"You think Josh
is going to make her happy? Did he make you happy?"
Her smile fell, but
she swallowed it under a smirk. "No, he didn't, and no, he won't make her
happy, either. So typical, Knight, to assume I'd think boys were the answers to
all our problems. Having fun, getting confident, and not living in the past
anymore. That's what will make Anne happy. It's going to take more than
compliments from Josh, but it's a start. I'm trying to help her, which is more
than I can say for you."
Knight's expression
softened. He took three steps toward her. He was almost standing between her
bare legs, the camisole riding up on her thighs. He rested his hands on her
shoulders, and his thumb rubbed softly against her skin. Every single strand of
hair on her arms felt charged, and she didn't need a mirror to know her face
had flushed.
"I know you mean
well, Emma. That's one of the things I love about you—you always mean
well."
"Another
compliment?" Emma said. "Is it my birthday?" She felt warm even
as his words stung. That was the problem with Knight. He was always so
disapproving of everything she did. Every compliment came with a cut. Every
sweet word with a sarcastic sting. "It's three dozen dogs and cats. Two
friends. One weekend. Just stick with me."
He smirked.
"When have I not?"
His gaze brushed over
her as he gave her shoulders another quick squeeze. She glanced at his hands,
noticing for the first time the rough skin at his knuckles from his weekly
boxing sessions, the veins running along the skin. The tip of her nose brushed
his wrist, and she was caught off guard by the sudden urge to turn to him,
press her cheek against his hand.
She imagined him
palming her face, pulling her to her feet, sliding his hand against the smooth
silk of her camisole at her waist…
Knight pulled away
and walked quickly out to the balcony.
***
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