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Seven Ways to Lose Your Heart
Tiffany Truitt
Release Date: July 18, 2016
In the span of seven days,
Annabel Lee will lose her heart.
Kennedy Harrison, as
reckless with life as Annabel is obsessed with order, never could commit to
anything—not to a person, not to a job, not to a path. But he’s got a history
with Annabel, and for once Kennedy doesn’t want to run. Determined to spend time
with her before she leaves for college, Kennedy dares her to join him on a road
trip to a music festival.
And neither of them could
ever say no to a dare.
But Annabel’s got a plan.
She’ll complete seven dares in seven days—if Kennedy applies for one writing
internship per dare. Because Kennedy needs to be pushed just as much as she
does.
What follows is a
dizzying week of music, shady hotels, comical dares, and a passion neither one
knew existed. But when it ends, Annabel and Kennedy will realize the biggest
dare of all might just be falling for each other.
“You
haven’t drowned in there, have you?” I yell to Annabel, noting that the sound
of running water stopped about fifteen minutes ago.
“No,
just relaxing,” she calls back.
Just
relaxing. Naked. In a bath.
I
scramble from the bed and knock gently on the door. “And would you like some
company to help you, you know, relax?”
“Did
you finish?” She sounds more like a scolding teacher than the girl who ravished
me last night. But this is Annabel Lee we’re talking about. It’s all about
priorities.
“Yes,
I finished. Now, can I come in?” I ask, pulling off my shirt in anticipation.
“Read
it to me.”
“Huh?”
I ask, my shirt not completely removed from my head yet.
“I
want you to read it to me.”
Of
course she does. Why did I expect any less? I pull my shirt the rest of the way
off on my walk back to get my computer. When I go to open the door, her voice
halts me.
“I
didn’t say come in. I said I wanted you to read it to me.”
“And
may I come in when I’m done?”
“Only
if it’s good,” she sings. She’s enjoying every bit of this torture. The lovable
vixen.
And
so I read it to her sitting on the floor outside the bathroom door. Even I have
to admit it’s good. It’s, like, fucking fantastic. When I get to the part about
us dancing up there together, the whole crowd making us feel like gods, she
makes me read it again, and I smile knowing it meant as much to her as it did
to me.
“You
can come in now if you want,” she says, sounding a little shyer than I expected
to hear. Gone is the bravado of the schoolteacher, replaced again by the girl
who still doesn’t know the power she has over me. How does she not realize
she’s had power over me since that first dare when she made me switch out Mrs.
Peterson’s peanut butter sandwich with kitty litter?
My
heart starts beating a little faster, knowing what’s waiting for me on the
other side of this wall. My breath catches in my throat when I open the door
and see her sitting there, staring up at me, and waiting.
Tiffany Truitt lives with
her Netflix and junk food in Virginia. She is a graduate from Longwood
University with a Masters in Literature from Old Dominion University.
Previously she has worked in the realm of Young Adult literature having written
The Lost Souls Series, Because You Exist, and The Language of Silence. This is
her first New Adult book.
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