Ruby
The Smokey Blues, Book 8
by Emily Mims
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Forty years ago Lexi
Barstow and Collins Wentworth thought they had made the biggest mistakes of
their lives. Heartbreaking choices and bitter tears cemented a pact that would
shape who they were and what they would be. But now so much has
changed...except the passion they share and the differences between them. But
some things are fixable, and with forever staring them hard in the face, they
learn all their decisions brought them to this place...an ever after filled
with love.
Excerpt
The club was even more crowded than it had been earlier and
the audience was lively for a Sunday evening, clapping and stomping and
answering Lonnie’s quips with boos and catcalls. There was electricity in the
air. They were a fun crowd tonight.
Lexi’s eyes danced as they sang their first song. She was in
her element.
They were about halfway through their second set when the
front door opened and a familiar figure stepped into the club. The hostess’s
eyes widened and the bartender did a double take. It wasn’t all that often a
United States Senator darkened their doors.
Lexi’s curiosity burned as the flustered hostess showed
Collins to the last vacant table by the front window. There was a bit of a stir
as a good percentage of the audience recognized the man who had joined them,
and then realized Lexi was performing for her old lover.
Whatever was he doing here tonight? This wasn’t his kind of
club. It wasn’t even his kind of music anymore. She’d overheard him tell Danny
he loved listening to him and his mother on their dulcimers, but that given the
choice he was fonder of the classical music Chessie and Isabel played.
Had he come to hear Lexi sing? Had he come to repeat his
invitation to join him on an evening out?
The thought sent chills up her spine.
She tore her eyes away from him. No way could she
concentrate on her singing if all her attention was on Collins. Ever the
professional, she didn’t miss a beat in the song they were singing, or the
next, or the one after that. If anything, her voice became sultrier and her
smile wider. Collins had come to hear her sing. She wanted him to know that she
still had it, and she wanted to rub in what he’d missed all these years.
About The Author
The author of
over thirty romance novels, Emily Mims combined her writing career with a
career in public education until leaving the classroom to write full time. The
mother of two sons, she and her husband split their time between central Texas,
eastern Tennessee, and Georgia visiting their kids and grandchildren. For
relaxation Emily plays the piano, organ, dulcimer, and ukulele for two
different performing groups, and even sings a little. She says, “I love to
write romances because I believe in them. Romance happened to me and it can
happen to any woman—if she’ll just let it.”
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ReplyDeleteThank you for having me today. I am very proud of 'Ruby', my first foray into love at a 'certain age'. I am firmly convinced that a woman can find love at any point in her life-if she'll just open her heart to the possibilities.
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