Title: From Yesterday
Author: Miriam Epstein
Genre: New Adult Romance
Expected
Release Date: March
18, 2014
Cover
Designer: Cover It! Designs
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Synopsis
Moving to
Miami was supposed to be enough distance from her family and her past, but
Paige Kerimov can’t seem to get them out of her head. A year of self-induced
solitude, nothing but school, Paige reluctantly starts to let people back into
her life, including one person in particular; the insistent and attractive
Brady Quinlan with whom she is paired for a project that will impact her major.
She has no choice but to work with him, no matter how tough that makes it to
deny her attraction to him.
As Paige lets her
guard down, remnants of a violent past and a tragic history start to resurface
and Brady knows she is hiding something. He tries to figure her out, but she
can’t let him see when the truth is that she isn’t sure if she’s in danger from
anything other than herself.
Excerpt
A single
tear drop defies me and leaks out of my right eye, traveling a jagged path down
my cheek. Brady takes his hand off of mine and wipes the tear away with one
finger, then cups the side of my face and pulls me a little bit closer to him.
“Don’t be sad, Paige. I’ve grieved already. I will always miss her, but I have
wonderful memories of my mother to take with me.”
I close my
eyes and lean into his hand without thinking. I’m sad for him, yes, but I also
want to know why he can speak of his dead mother with such maturity when I
can’t stop conjuring the image of my dead sister. And I’m a selfish bitch for
being jealous of his acceptance.
When I open my
eyes again, he is looking at me with intent. His thumb moves to stroke my
bottom lip and a tiny sigh escapes my throat. The table between us is quite
narrow and there is so little distance keeping me from kissing him. It scares
me. I feel like a bucket of ice water is being poured over my head and I snap
back in my seat with such suddenness that I knock my bag over and the contents
spill out on the floor under the table. Brady is still poised there with his
hand extended, but the look on his face says he is disappointed. He recovers in
record time and we both bend down to retrieve my things. I shove my clothing
back in the bag and then I sit up too fast and smack the back of my head on the
hard surface of the table. It stuns me and makes my vision swim for a minute,
but I still see what is laying on the floor. The package I received earlier
must not have been sealed properly because the contents have made their way
onto the floor. The necklace my sister always wore, a platinum heart pendant
with her Garnet birthstone in the center, is sticking out of the envelope. It is
dirty; covered in a substance that I believe is dried blood, and a note is
attached. The red lipstick from the mirror was used to spell out ‘I will always
find you’.
About the Author
I'm pretty
sure I could read before I could walk. I remember sneaking in extra reading
time with a flashlight as a kid after bedtime. Remember those shiny Lisa Frank
sets? I traded mine for paperbacks in the fifth grade. Some of my favorite
authors include, Christopher Pike, Anne Rice, and Sylvia Plath.
I write YA and
New Adult. Currently, I live in South Florida. Having changed my major three
times, I'm still in college and I wait tables in my spare (ha!) time.
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