Title: Bone Deep
Author: Kim O’Brien
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Publisher: Spencer Hill Contemporary
Synopsis: When Paige Patterson travels to
Arizona to spend the summer with her archeologist father, she expects answers.
Why did her parents divorce? Why did her father choose his career over family?
She doesn’t expect to be reunited with her best friend Emily Linton, a girl she
has always admired and secretly wanted to emulate, or to find herself falling
for the project manager’s son, Jalen Yazzi.
But the summer takes a terrible turn
when Emily vanishes. As the police struggle for answers, Paige sets out to find
the truth.
The search takes Paige from the
Cliffside ruins of prehistoric Native Americans to the Navajo Nation to the
horrifying possibility that the answer is much closer to home. Emily, it turns
out, was not the only one good at hiding things.
Her father has no alibi for the night
Emily disappeared. An intern with the motive insists he’s innocent. And Jalen
has some secrets of his own.
Old bones might not be the only
things buried in the ruins. As Paige digs deeper into Emily’s disappearance,
she realizes that uncovering the truth may cost her everything—even her life.
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Kim’s comment:
Even before Bone Deep was a
mystery, it was a romance, and this is maybe what I love most about the book.
The child of a divorce, Paige doesn’t trust love, even wonders if she’s capable
of ‘being in love.’ She’s been hurt. So when she starts falling for Jalen, she
fights it. The last thing Jalen wants is a relationship with the daughter of
his father’s boss – and he has some secretes of his own. However, as they learn
more about each other, it gets harder and harder to deny their feelings.
Scene:
I sense him wanting me, yet
struggling with himself. Before I chicken out, I shift closer, touch his face,
trace the sharpness of his cheekbone with my thumb, and then slide my hand over
his silky hair, pulled back in a tight pony tail. He closes his eyes, but
cannot stop the small groan that escapes his lips.
Following an instinct I didn’t even
know I had, I close my eyes and kiss him.
It is the bolt of electricity that
Emily said it was, and it’s also something stronger, something that isn’t gone
in a flash. I move my lips against his, savoring the warmth and shape of them.
His arms go around me,
lifting me onto his chest, and then he kisses me urgently, completely, as if
everything he’s kept bottled up inside himself has finally overflowed. He
tastes like me, only better, stronger, and the smell of his sweat is exciting,
deep and rich like the earth.
“Paige,” he says again,
softer now, drawing the word out, gooseflesh rising all over me, as if he has
breathed the word onto me.
I turn slowly. He’s
standing about six feet away, an expression on his face I have never seen
before. He wants me, he cares for me, yet this comes at a cost for him.
I move toward him so he doesn’t
have to be the one to take this next step. When our faces are inches apart, I
look into his eyes.
“Paige,” he says again.
He takes my face in his hands,
carefully moves my hair, and then his lips close over mine. He kisses me
deeply, as if everything he’s been holding back has finally broken through. I
taste a trace of orange and something I can’t describe that belongs to him. I
close my eyes, feel like I’m dissolving inside. The muscles in his back strain,
and I know without a shadow of a doubt that this is real, that it isn’t just a
crush—that he would not be kissing me like this if it were something he could
help.
Kim O’Brien grew up in an old
Victorian house in Bronxville, NY. Her mother loved telling her bedtime
stories, especially ones about the ghost in their attic. Kim not only believed
the house was haunted but also fell in love with books and the art of
storytelling.At Emory University in Atlanta, Kim earned a B.A. in psychology. She then attained a M.F.A in writing from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY. She worked for many years as a writer, editor, and speechwriter for IBM before becoming a full time fiction writer. She lives in Texas with her husband, daughters, and four-legged friend Daisy.
Kim is the author of eight inspirational romances and seven non-fiction children’s books. She loves to hear from her readers and can be found at www.kimobrienbooks.com/, Facebook, and Twitter (kimobri).
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