Title: Somewhere to Begin
Author: Mika Jolie
Category/Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance
Publication Date: September 20th 2016
There are wounds that never
show on the body.
For twenty-nine years, Colbie Bennington does as expected
with an eternal smile stained on her lips. The biggest chances she’s ever taken
can be counted on one hand, three fingers to be exact—her battered red chucks,
painting her toenails a vibrant blue, and her wedding dress. Always the dutiful
daughter and a Stepford fiancée, she has never acted on impulse, never been in
love.
She’s never lived.
On her wedding day, Colbie ends a toxic relationship, drops
the fake smile, and says, “I can’t do this anymore.”
Navy SEAL Zander Serrano returns home broken and burdened
with a volcano of remorse. Too trapped in a mental war to be at peace and too
damaged to be at war, he shuts the world out. The last thing he expects is to
feel, especially for a runaway bride with her own baggage.
Two empty hearts marred in different spots find themselves
drawn to one another. Each with their own scars. Some, the world can see. Others, unseen to
the naked eye.
They say two broken people should not be together. But for
Colbie and Zander, their attraction is undeniable, unexpected.
Can two souls with fractured parts be the best cure for each
other’s wounds?
Starting over is never easy, but sometimes in life, everyone
needs somewhere to begin.
Guilt was the first thing that
came to Zander. Had he not blacked out, she would have never skidded off the
road to avoid a rear-end collision with his truck. But remorse only played a
small role in his daily visits. Something about her made him feel as if he were
looking at his soul, cracked and damaged, holding on by the last frayed thread.
He continued to assess her. Hair,the color of piano keys, tumbled like
beached kelp after a storm, ruffled but certainly not in a way usually shown on
the cover of a magazine. He could tell she’d been through hell—the ugly bruises
on her arms marred the pink softness of her delicate skin, the wedding dress,
the lack of visitors—but that only gave her beauty an edge. It felt immoral to
look upon her, and yet he found it equally unrighteous to look away.
She wore pain like it was the
grandest of diamonds around her neck.
Colbie Bennington was a
wounded bird, and if there was one thing Zander couldn’t resist, it was
being the hero. He’d always been
a magnet for trouble but not troubled women. Playing the White Knight or
falling for helpless women had never been his thing either.
Common sense told him each day not to
return to the hospital. For two days, he’d been the only one here. He knew. He
checked each time. He had a sister and there was Paige Harris—the woman he
considered as much a sibling as Lily. Between those three women, he’d developed
some deep intuitive understanding of the female gender, when something was
wrong. Colbie was running from something.
And maybe because pain
recognized pain, he saw she was broken. For the first time since returning
home, Zander felt emotion, hot and all-consuming. His need-to-protect radar was going off full
tilt. A pointless task, he tried to tell
himself, but his subconscious remained stubborn. He couldn’t help it; he was
conditioned.
“I want to make sure you’re safe,” he said,
and for a moment, he actually felt as if he’d discovered his destiny.
Mika Jolie is the bestselling author of the Martha’s Way
series. She lives in New Jersey with her Happy Chaos—her husband and their
energizer bunnies. A sports fanatic and a wine aficionado, she’s
determined to balance it all and still write about life experiences and matters
of the heart. Let’s face it, people are complicated and love can be messy. When
she’s not weaving life and romance into evocative tales, you can find her on a
hiking adventure, apple picking, or whatever her three men can conjure up.
She loves to hear from readers.
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