Finding Jackson
by Anne Holster
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GENRE: New Adult Romance
BLURB:
It's
1977 - Star Wars is breaking records at the box office, Bruce Springsteen's
Born to Run tour is taking the country by storm, and born-and-bred Jersey girl Annalise
Keller has fallen in love for the first and last time. Hot and charismatic with
dreams of making it as a rock star, Keith "Ace" Foxx is everything a
teenage girl dreams of. He falls as hard for Anna as she does for him and the
two decide to run off to California in search of his big break. Fate has other
plans though, and several years and three kids later, Ace has traded in his
guitar for a job at the local post office and Anna has become a symbol of all
he has given up. Ace spends most nights at the local bar, trying to drink away
his anger and resentment.
Flash forward a decade,
and their youngest child, Jackson, is headed nowhere fast. In a life filled
with meaningless jobs and too much partying, music is his only true escape from
the pain of a childhood that abruptly ended one rainy night. The accident had
destroyed his family and left him with a slew of unanswered questions.
Everything changes the
night Jackson meets Leah. Shy and reserved, she doesn't smoke and barely
drinks; she certainly doesn't put out. Not exactly the girl from the Bon Jovi
videos he watched as a kid. Yet, before he knows it, she has become his world.
Then, just when it
looks like his dreams might come true, betrayal and loss once again threaten
everything he holds dear. As Jackson struggles to keep his world from spinning
out of control, he knows one thing for sure, the choices he makes now will
either be the start of a whole new life, or it just might be the end of him.
Excerpt:
It was Halloween the first time I laid eyes on him. I’ll
never forget it because Halloween had always been my favorite holiday, maybe
because for some reason I was allowed to run wild. Things I’d never get away
with were suddenly okay to do on Halloween. For instance, staying out after
dark or eating candy before dinner, dressing inappropriately, and by
inappropriately, I mean going out without a coat when the weather dipped below
fifty degrees. Things you think are cool when you’re ten years old, which was
how old I was that year. Most people may not clearly remember their tenth
Halloween, but I do and with very good reason, because it was the day I fell in
love. You might think it crazy for a fifth grader to arrive home after a night
of trick-or-treating and announce that she’s in love and you probably wouldn’t
be the only one, but that’s exactly what I did – and I was totally serious.
It was dusk, and the air was electric with excitement. It
had been a lucrative afternoon and my three friends and I had split up just
long enough to empty our bags of candy, grab something to eat, then regroup in
an hour to hit the other side of town. Not wanting to waste any time I decided
to cut through the woods by my house, something I didn’t usually do with
darkness approaching. It was a fateful decision that would end up altering the
course of my life.
Anne Holster
resides in Northern New Jersey with her husband and two children. When she's
not writing she enjoys spending time with her family, playing tennis and
reading angsty romance novels. She is currently working on her fourth book.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZR3GWXF/ref=sr_1_2
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