I am so excited to see that Losing Francesca is now available. I purchased a copy straight away and e-mailed the author to ask if she'd be willing to visit YAlicious with a guest post about the book. She very kindly obliged :)
Welcome to YAlicious, Julie. It's awesome to have you.
Welcome to YAlicious, Julie. It's awesome to have you.
Soul Mates
Losing
Francesca is not a story I typically write. I’m a science fiction writer first,
a smexy new adult romance writer second, and although I do read young adult
books, they are almost always paranormal or science fiction.
So why
write this story? Well, it’s a
contemporary romance with a twist and I like twists. It’s a mystery actually – you see, no one
knows what happened to Fiona Sullivan twelve years ago when she and her mother
went missing in Italy on vacation, but there’s a whole community of people
dying to figure this out.
And one
of those people who desperately needs to know if Francesca Sabatini is the same
little girl who was stolen from his life when he was just seven years old is
Brody Mason.
Brody
admits he’s been obsessed with Fiona since her disappearance and the day he was
told she was never coming back was the last day he really lived his life,
because he spent the next several years desperate with longing to see her
again.
Why is
Brody so interested in the missing Fiona Sullivan?
Fiona
Sullivan was his soul mate. He loved
this girl as a child, he loved this girl as they rode the bus together in their
early school years, and he’s got it in his head that Francesca is Fiona. They
are the same girl. He feels this to be
true even though he has no proof and she denies over and over again that she is
not Fiona Sullivan.
It
doesn’t matter to Brody, because a soul mate knows. He just knows. That’s the major theme running through Losing
Francesca. Normally I like to make
statements with my books, at least make people think a little about some issue
or another – see it in a different way.
But this book is just about love.
The kind of love that not only comes once in a lifetime, but once in
eternity. Soul mates are forever. There
is no limit to that love.
So why is
Brody so tortured?
Imagine
you and your soul mate were born living next door to each other. How wonderful to spend your entire life
within a few minutes walking distance to your one true love.
Now
imagine that your soul mate was taken away.
How empty and desperate would your life become?
Brody
Mason fully understands both of those feelings because that’s what happened to
him.
Losing
Francesca is about a family that was broken apart, a boy who was torn to
pieces, and a girl who needs to put herself back together again. It’s a sweet
mysterious romance that will take your mind off life, maybe make you cry a bit,
and leave you hopeful at the end.
Published: July 1, 2013
Genre: Mature Young Adult Contemporary
Romance
WARNING: This book contains no smut. It’s
not smexy or hot. It’s sweet and filled with a longing so deep, your heart will
ache and maybe even break. This book is about bare feet on the beach, the sound
of crashing waves, first kisses, losing your faith and then, against all odds,
finding it again. This book is about bad things that change people’s lives, a
father’s love for his daughter, a brother’s love for his sister, a bad boy who
finally figures out why he’s so broken, and a girl who grows up.
Francesca Sabatini came to America to take
in the sights, celebrate her high school graduation, and have fun wasting time
before college starts in the fall.
That’s not what happens.
Fresh off the plane and barely on American
soil more than a handful of minutes, Francesca’s face is recognized by TSA
scanners to be a match for a child who was kidnapped twelve years ago.
Brody Mason remembers the day Fiona
Sullivan went missing during a family vacation in Italy and it’s haunted him
his whole life. So when Francesca shows up at the Sullivan farm down the road,
he’s compelled to figure out if this girl really is his long lost friend.
But Francesca knows she’s not Fiona
Sullivan. She knows exactly who she is. At least she thinks she knows – until
Brody Mason relentlessly pursues her and she begins to have feelings for him.
Maybe being Fiona isn’t so bad?
Reality becomes blurred, secrets are
revealed, and life will never be the same when the final questions are
answered: Is she Francesca or Fiona? And where does she really belong?
Losing Francesca is a YA/NA crossover
contemporary romance. :)
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Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Losing-Francesca-ebook/dp/B00DMVZ4DM/
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