Southern Romance is in the Spotlight on Reading with Debra Holt's
Under Texas Blue Skies
Do you like a little country in your romance?
Then you'll enjoy Debra Holt's debut release from Astraea Press.
Under
Texas Blue Skies
J.D. Sterling,
country music’s sexy superstar, has come home again. He has achieved his wildest dreams and did
what he set out to do when he shook the dirt of the small Texas town from his
boot heels a dozen years before. Now, he’s returned for the final piece of the
puzzle to completing his life….the girl who holds his heart. Mandy.
Amanda Lawson has
grown up. From sheer heartbreak to
struggling to survive to becoming a shrewd businesswoman, she has taught
herself to never look back. She survived
once before the wild, green-eyed cowboy with only a guitar to his name and a
pocketful of dreams. He took her heart
and so much more when he left her behind with his hollow vows.
Mandy was his
muse…J.D. was her dream. Despite
tragedy, can they find their way home to each other again?
J.D. Sterling’s heartbeats were thumping loud
as a bass drum at the sight of the red sedan as it pulled into the circular
driveway, stopping just behind the other realtor’s Hummer. He had purposely
seated himself in a corner of the wide porch, away from the glare of the
noonday sun, where climbing vines and shade would enable him to be concealed
from the woman’s line of sight. He didn’t want her to know he was there, at
least not right away. J.D. needed to see her first, to get his feet under him.
At least, that’s the excuse he'd given himself. For someone who always planted
his feet solidly in the middle of any situation, this was one time the
spotlight was not what he sought. His pulses were racing as he saw the driver’s
door swing open, and two slender ankles encased in gray high heels became
visible as they touched the ground.
The
woman stood up, one hand pushed her sunglasses further up on the bridge of her
nose, and then she closed the car door behind her. She slung the straps of her
leather bag over her shoulder and moved around the hood of the car, her heels
making soft crunching sounds on the pea gravel along the drive. In the early
afternoon stillness of the ranch, those sounds seemed to be amplified.
The
eyes in the shadows drank in the features of the woman as she moved toward the
house. Nowhere in sight was the country girl he had last seen. The vision that
approached was confident in her stride, her head up and shoulders resolute. The
girl he used to know was just short of being painfully shy and always hesitant
to stand out of any crowd. Sunglasses concealed her eyes from view so he
couldn’t see if they were still the amazingly vivid blue he remembered and had
even immortalized in song once. They had filled his dreams on many a night and
gotten him through some really hard times. It was those eyes he would see when
he closed his own as he sang across the bright lights into the dark recesses of
some huge arena, packed with screaming fans and loud music. He would sing to
the girl in his dreams… the one he had left behind but never left out of his
heart.
“Hello,
Mandy,” he spoke softly from the shadows.
Amanda’s
head swung in its direction. Her eyes sought to focus on the tall figure that
stepped from darkness into light. She went to take a quick breath but found she
couldn’t. In fact, for some reason, the light was receding, and the darkness
was swallowing them all up.
Author Bio…
Born and raised in the Lone Star state
of Texas, Debra grew up among horses, cowboys, wide open spaces, and real Texas
Rangers. Pride in her state and ancestry
knows no bounds and it is these heroes and heroines she loves to write about
the most. She also draws upon a variety
of life experiences including working with abused children, caring for baby
animals at a major zoo, and owning a wedding planning business (ah, romance!).
Debra’s real pride and joys, however, are her son, an aspiring film actor,
and a daughter with aspirations to join the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(more story ideas!) When she isn’t busy
writing about tall Texans and feisty heroines, she can be found cheering on her
Texas Tech Red Raiders, or heading off on another cruise adventure. She read her first romance...Janet Dailey's Fiesta
San Antonio, over
thirty years ago and became hooked on the genre. Writing contemporary western
romances, is both her passion and dream
come true, and she hopes her books will bring smiles...and sighs... to all who
believe in happily-ever-after’s.
The Seymour Agency represents Debra and she is soon to have two
contemporary romances published by Spencer Hill/Tulip Romance and Astraea
Press. Debra invites you to visit her website at www.debraholtbooks.com.
She loves to hear from other aspiring authors or readers via email at debraholtbooks@gmail.com. Follow her on twitter @debraholtbooks
and like her author page on facebook.
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