A man with a damaged soul fell in love with a ballerina with a broken
body.
When Neal Medwin glimpses Mina Automne for the first time, he's a man
whose soul is darkened with memories of a painful past, whereas Mina
is a
vibrant, strong, young woman. She's a determined ballerina who's carefully
planning and painting her life.
Neal steps into her existence and threatens to shatter Mina's plans with an
impossible request.
Mina can't help the fragile man who's invading her home, even though their
parents used to be close friends and she knows of Neal's hurtful
background. She allows him to linger within her lovely and artistic
world,
however, hoping he might find some peace and solace.
Slowly, their conflict turns into friendship, and eventually into love,
until a terrible discovery ruins Mina's projects and forces her to let go
of all her dreams, and of her sweet, damaged man.
Neal is unable to fight for Mina and for the unripe love they share,
because he's not ready to leave his past behind. He's not strong
enough – not yet.
(Ages 18+)
body.
When Neal Medwin glimpses Mina Automne for the first time, he's a man
whose soul is darkened with memories of a painful past, whereas Mina
is a
vibrant, strong, young woman. She's a determined ballerina who's carefully
planning and painting her life.
Neal steps into her existence and threatens to shatter Mina's plans with an
impossible request.
Mina can't help the fragile man who's invading her home, even though their
parents used to be close friends and she knows of Neal's hurtful
background. She allows him to linger within her lovely and artistic
world,
however, hoping he might find some peace and solace.
Slowly, their conflict turns into friendship, and eventually into love,
until a terrible discovery ruins Mina's projects and forces her to let go
of all her dreams, and of her sweet, damaged man.
Neal is unable to fight for Mina and for the unripe love they share,
because he's not ready to leave his past behind. He's not strong
enough – not yet.
(Ages 18+)
Publisher's Note: This stand-alone Novel is a spinoff of Petra March's
award winning series, A Touch of Cinnamon.
award winning series, A Touch of Cinnamon.
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EXCERPT:
Prologue
Mina Automne
danced through the pain until she managed to turn it into pleasure. She didn't
need music to accompany the movements of her legs, of her arms, of her fingers,
for the wind was the conductor of an orchestra of the most particular instruments.
It shook the leaves of apple trees and made them chime. It played among
grapevines and teased them like fingertips on violin strings.
The lavender
flowers bowed forward as Mina's neck arched gracefully backwards.
The weeds
trembled, while Mina's body spun and leaped higher and lighter.
The sky above was
a cerulean blue, dotted with pure white clouds, and Mina's lithe limbs reached
for those unblemished shapes.
When she danced,
her parents' disapproval did not matter; when her frame played, the hurtful
words of her ex-lover could not break her.
Mina was shaping
her life around her art, and she was going to be the greatest. There was
nothing wrong with her choices, and there was nothing wrong with her body. She
was meant to be a ballerina, and she was capable of feeling pleasure.
The wind teased
her fiery red curls; the long strands caressed her bare shoulders and arms, and
her blood felt ablaze with adrenaline. Beads of sweat ran along the pale skin
of her face, and touched her lips. Mina licked the drops, and tasted salt
mingled with excitement. She arched up towards the bright sky, and declared
herself a creature of power and beauty.
A Different Kind
of Lovely: A Novel, by Petra March
Copyright
2017 Petra March. All rights reserved.
Editors: Michelle
Ryles (The Book Magnet), Heather Sheffield (The Turning Pages),Sharon Taylor
Xuereb (@sharonsbooknook)
About the Author:
Petra March is the Award Winning Author of the A Touch of Cinnamon
Series and of the stand-alone novel, A Different Kind of Lovely.
Her book, All the Skies I will not See, is a Library Journal SELF-e
Selection. The book won the 2016 Pacific Book Awards for Best Short
Story, and was a Gold Medal Winner (Fiction - Short Story) in the 2016
Readers' Favorite International Book Awards. In 2015, the book was a
Finalist in the 2015 Wishing Shelf Independent Book Awards, won the
Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Best Novella, earned the Literary
Classics Seal of Approval, and received a 5-Star Review Seal from
Readers' Favorite. The literary magazine Shelf Unbound listed All the
Skies I will not See amid the 2015 Top 100 Notable Books.
The multi-award winning All the Skies I will not See features characters
from Petra March's other works: A Veil of Glass and Rain(Special Edition),
A Dream of Lilies:A Novella, and A Different Kind of Lovely:A Novel.
A Veil of Glass and Rain (Special Edition) was a Finalist in the 2016 I
Heart Indie Contest (New Adult), organized by the Las Vegas Romance
Writers of America, and was featured in the June 2015 issue of the
literary
publication, InD'tale Magazine; Book Riot listed A Veil of Glass and
Rain amid the 100-Must-Read-Books by International Romance Authors.
A Different Kind of Lovely was awarded the Crowned Heart for
Excellence by InD'tale Magazine and received a 5-star review in the
September 2017 issue of the magazine; the novel was also featured in
the July 2017 issue of the literary journal, Literary Yard, and in the
September 2017 issue of the literary publication, Inks and Scratches:
Magazine.
Petra March graduated summa cum laude in Theater and Cinema Studies at
the University of Rome 3, and earned a MA degree from the Catholic
University of Milan. She studied Screenwriting and History of American
Cinema at UCLA and NYU, and worked as screenwriter in Italy and
France, where she also taught Creative Writing in elementary schools
and junior high schools.
Presently, she keeps traveling and dreaming through her novels and
stories; just like Petra, her characters are deeply in love with
Europe and the USA.
Website: authorpetramarch.weebly.com
Facebook: @AuthorPetraMarch
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