Title: Beautifully Awake
Author: Riley Mackenzie
Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance
Release
Date: October 2, 2013
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Synopsis
Diagnosis: Sleep-
running
Treatment: Truth
Prognosis: Beautifully
Awake
Lili Porter hates
the rain. Bad things happen in the rain. As a small town social worker dedicated
to protecting children, she is forced to start over to escape her rural disaster.
Determined to follow her father’s advice—head up and chin high—Lili finds herself
in a new city, taking on a new system, this time healthcare. In doing so, she gets
something she never expected, an intimate behind-the-scenes look at life in the
hospital.
Lili learns that
a surgeon’s hands have the power to heal more than physical wounds. And
a prescription for truth can cure three years of sleep running and leave you
beautifully awake.
Excerpt
I washed up and had
just enough time to tug on a clean tank and thong and then climbed back into bed.
I heard his footsteps. Excitement and relief washed through me. A small part of me
feared he might have changed his mind, but my insecurity vanished the second his
chiseled face appeared from the darkness.
His shirt hung open.
He folded his arms across his chest and casually leaned against the wall, studying
me like the MRI images he methodically memorized before each surgery.
“You moved?” His lips
parted into a half grin, and he shook his head disapprovingly.
“You put clothes
on.”
“You might need some
new clothes.” I smiled.
“You’re
fucking beautiful.”
About the
Authors
Yep. That's an “s.”
There are two of us!
We’re East coast girls separated by Long Island
Sound who met in Physician Assistant School and have been besties ever since. We
can safely say that thirteen miles of water does not get in the way because we talk or
text, no exaggeration, at least 150 times a day. No, really, we do—about everything
and nothing. Shockingly, we never (we mean never) run out of things to say. Umm,
ever. We definitely laugh A LOT and we’re a tad sarcastic. And if we’re being totally
honest, one or two people might have, on occasion, used our names and ‘dramatic’
in the same sentence. But it’s hard to trust the sources since they married us.
It only took twelve
years, two husbands, five kids, two dogs, and a two-week vacation in Cape Cod later
to decide the romance world needed a splash of medicine. Write what you know.</
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So you can easily find us at 4 o'clock on Bank Street
beach with a glass of cold Prosecco brainstorming. And guaranteed if we bump into
you, literally, it’s only because our iPhones are glued to our hands (totally out of our
control) either writing or editing our next novel (and yes, it is possible to do from
your iPhone, we mastered it … damn those straight quotations).
When we are
not working on our book or reading the latest angsty romance on our kindles,
you basically name it and we have it going on. Soccer, lacrosse, golf, swimming,
dance, gymnastics, football, chess, baseball, basketball, skiing, ice skating, school,
homework, and more school.
Oh yeah, did we forget to mention our careers in
medicine?
Needless to say,
we realized fast that something had to go, so we opted for sleep. It’s completely
overrated (yet so AMAZING) and delirium makes everything funnier. Good thing
we share a brain and can pretty much complete each other’s sentences (definitely
weird, we know), otherwise it might have taken us two years to write Beautifully
Awake rather than one.
So that’s our story,
who we are … just add AUTHORS to the list!
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