May.19.2013 #WeWriWa #SnipSun with Hawthorne

Welcome to Sunday and another round of short snippets! Last week we finished up with LAST CALL, my new 99-cent romantic suspense, so I thought today we’d stick with the 99-cent theme and take a look at HAWTHORNE, a sweet romance set in a haunted house. Here are the opening lines.

The car slowed to a stop and a decade’s worth of memories  tumbled onto the sun-­blanched asphalt.

Hawthorne Manor.

The hand‑painted sign hadn’t changed in years. In the thick,  damp air filling the Louisiana landscape, the wood display

remained inexplicably unaffected. There it sat—every meticulously  scripted letter as crisp and clean as the stark white walls of the  manor it lauded, oblivious to the passage of time.

Emma Hawthorne tensed in the seat of the Mustang  convertible, staring at her past with ice sluicing her spine.

HAWTHORNE is available from: Astraea Press, Amazon, Paperback, Barnes & Noble, Apple iTunes,Kobo, Books on Board, and more! Click here to add to Goodreads or here for reviews.