ACT
LIKE YOU LOVE ME official Blurb:
All’s
fair in acting and amore...
Brynn
McAdams isn’t the awkward drama geek she was in high school—she’s grown up and
confident, or at least she likes to think so. But when her old crush, the
impossibly handsome and impossibly unattainable Sawyer Raines, comes back to
town to direct her community play, Brynn finds herself determined to be someone
other than the girl he doesn’t even recognize. Good thing she’s an excellent
actress.
After
his bad breakup in NYC, the last thing Sawyer wants is to get involved with
another actress. But the glamorous and beautiful Brynn draws him in, even
though as her director, he knows she’s off-limits. There’s just something about
the woman that feels…familiar. Like home.
As
Brynn’s lies start to snowball, she struggles to stop acting and come clean.
But what if Sawyer is already falling for the fake Brynn, not the Brynn she
truly is?
ACT LIKE YOU LOVE ME
excerpt:
“Cut, cut cut!” Sawyer
stood. “Was that supposed to be more passionate? Because
it sucked.”
“This is supposed to be the
eighteen hundreds,” Brynn said. “It can’t be too passionate or it would seem inappropriate for the time.”
The next instant Sawyer was
charging up the steps to the stage. “I’m not saying
it’s got to be a kiss with tongue, I’m saying you’ve
got to look at each other like you’re in love
so the audience will want it to work out. Our modern audience.” Sawyer shook
his head. “Take it again, from before the
proposal.”
It was impossible to
concentrate with Sawyer standing right there, so close she
could hear every shift of his body and feel his gaze
on her like a weight. All her lines were
swimming together.
Leo knelt, told her she was
an angel. She said her line, trying to peer into his soul
like she wanted to be with him, and then Leo kissed
her. And it was sloppier than usual.
She did her best to not
jerk back, though it was her first instinct.
“Okay, that was just…”
Sawyer moved in front of her. He looked at the playbook,
then lowered it by his side and stared into her eyes.
The air thickened around them and she could
feel every thump of her heart. “What a perfect angel you are, Cecily.” He said
it so tenderly, his smile close-lipped but full of
joy.
“You dear romantic boy,”
she said, all out of instinct because thoughts were
getting fuzzy.
He leaned in and kissed
her, a soft kiss with his lips barely parted. The pressure of
his lips increased for a delicious moment, and then
they were gone. A quick, simple kiss, but when
his mouth left hers, she felt its absence so strongly that she couldn’t think
about anything else for a couple seconds. Her breath was stuck somewhere in her
lungs and her lips still tingled, living the sensation over and over again.
Heat wound through her body, her hands itched to reach out and touch him. And
then she remembered she was supposed to. She
ran her fingers through his hair and felt the whisper of his breath on her
wrist as he exhaled.
“Wow, that was good,” Wendy
said from the front, breaking Brynn from her trance.
Brynn stepped back and
swallowed, but her throat wasn’t working right. Sawyer’s
eyes never left hers, and one corner of his mouth
curved up in a smug, self-satisfied way.
“It was all right, I
suppose,” Brynn said, working to keep her voice steady. She
crossed her arms and shrugged. “For a first-timer,
anyway.”
That only made Sawyer’s
smile grow wider.
Brynn couldn’t help but
watch Sawyer as he jumped off the stage. Funny how
she’d dreamed of kissing him all the time in high
school, but her fantasy wasn’t even close to
the real thing. Her heart felt like it’d just been wrung out and shoved back in
her
And her scene with Leo was
better. She was sure it had nothing to do with the fact
that she closed her eyes and pretended it was Sawyer
kissing her again.
Nope. Nothing at all.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Cindi Madsen sits at her computer every
chance she gets, plotting revising, and falling in love with her characters.
Sometimes it makes her a crazy person. Without it, she’d be even crazier. She
has way too many shoes, but can always find a reason to buy a new pretty pair,
especially if they’re sparkly, colorful, or super tall. She loves music,
dancing, and wishes summer lasted all year long. She lives in Colorado (where
summer is most definitely NOT all year long) with her husband and three
children. She is the author of YA novelsAll the Broken Pieces and Demons of the
Sun, bestselling short romance Falling for Her Fiancé and the women's fiction
novel Cinderella Screwed Me Over.
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