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Genre: Fiction/Romance/Contemporary
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Digital ISBN 13: 978-1-939217-95-0 ISBN 10: 1-939217-95-4
Print ISBN 13: 978-1-939217-96-7 ISBN 10: 1-939217-96-2
Print ISBN 13: 978-1-939217-96-7 ISBN 10: 1-939217-96-2
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Unrequited
love is the biggest heartache…
Lily and Adam have been best friends
since the dawn of time. Well, the dawn of their time. Okay…since primary school actually.
Everyone accepted them as best friends. Until one day, aged 18, Lily made
a fateful discovery. She was head over heels in love.
With Adam.
Her
unrequited feelings are hard to deal with initially but become even harder when
Lily inadvertently introduces him to the love of his life. It all started
as a bit of a joke thanks to the other woman's name.
Eve.
Many
years later and Adam is once again single and heartbroken and Lily is there to
help him pick up the pieces. Her methods are sometimes a little
unorthodox and lead to ridiculous consequences.
Can Lily help Adam move on
and find happiness again? And can
either of the friends recover from losing the love of their lives?
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About Lisa:
Lisa is a happily married mum of one with two crazy dogs and
a passion for writing. After relocating
to Scotland from England and writing her first novel she gave up on running a
craft business to do what she loves full time and is now putting the finishing
touches to books four and five so watch this space.
Public contact information
Twitter: @LivingScottishD
Web: www.lisajhobman.co.uk
Excerpt of The Girl Before Eve:
Friends Will Be Friends (Queen)
The Beginning of Lily and Adam - Primary
School 1986
“She is my friend, Stewart Campbell, and if I
see you pinch anything from her ever, ever again or try to push her over, I
will punch you on the nose, and then I’ll tell Mrs. Craven and she’ll tell your
mum, and then you’ll be grounded…forever!”
Adam yelled as he towered over the snivelling little blonde-haired boy whose
T-shirt he was grasping.
“I’m going to tell my
dad on you, and he’ll come to your house and kick your dad’s arse, and he’s
lots bigger than your dad, you smelly pig!” Stewart retorted through his tears
and threw the packet of crisps on the playground, the contents spilling out. He
stamped on the crisps, crumbling them under his feet.
Adam laughed in the
other boy’s face. “Oh no, he isn’t, and now I’m going to tell Mrs. Craven that
you said a swear word! Don’t you ever hurt her again, do you hear me? She’s a
girl and you should never, ever hit
girls or pinch their snack. And now you’ve dropped it on the floor and she
hasn’t got one. You’re just mean and nasty, Stewart Campbell. And that’s why
nobody likes you!” Adam released the blonde boy’s T-shirt and pushed him away.
The boy ran off to the other side of the playground just as the lunchtime
supervisor came around the corner. She must have noticed the gathered crowd of
children.
“Everything alright
over here, Adam?” the tall, red-haired lady asked with a sour look on her face.
“Yes, Mrs. Craven.
Stewart Campbell said a rude word though, so I told him off and said I was
going to tell.”
“Oh did he now? That
boy needs to learn some manners. I think I’ll tell his teacher. Perhaps a quick
call home might be in order.” Mrs. Craven glanced toward Adam’s friend just as
Lily wiped the tears from her eyes and pushed the mass of wild, dark curls from
her damp face. “Lily? Have you been crying?”
Lily nodded.
“What happened?” Mrs.
Craven asked, narrowing her eyes.
Lily worriedly looked
to Adam.
“It’s okay, Mrs.
Craven. Stewart was being mean and he took her snack and threw it on the floor
and stamped on it. But I told him off for that, too.”
Mrs. Craven smiled and
ruffled Adam’s scruffy, dark hair. “Eeeh, for nothing but a six-year-old boy
you do look after her well, don’t you, son? You keep that up.” She patted his
head lightly and then turned to walk over to where Stewart had run off to sulk.
Once Mrs. Craven was
out of sight and the crowd of children had dispersed, Adam turned to Lily.
“Here, you can have the rest of my crisps if you like.” He held out the blue
crinkly packet to her.
“Thank you, Adders,”
she croaked, almost in a whisper. “You’re
my bestest friend.”
“Aye, I know that and
you’re my bestest friend too, Lil, and Stewart Campbell is just a big meanie.
You need to stay away from him. I’ll make sure he isn’t nasty to you again
though. Don’t worry.” The two children walked over to the grass and sat down
side by side.
“Are you coming to my
house for tea on Saturday? My papa says we can have the paddling pool out if
it’s sunny?” Lily asked munching on the salt and vinegar crisps.
Adam nodded. “Yep…I
can’t wait. I’ve got one of those big water pistols that soak you through, so
you’d better watch out.” He nudged her with a wide grin fixed in place.
She giggled. “Yeah,
well I’m going to make sure I get my big sand castle bucket out then, and it
holds about ten gallons of water, so you’d
better watch out.” She nudged him back.
He snorted. “It does
not! And anyway I’m a faster runner than you, so you’d better watch out.” He chuckled.
“It does, too! And
you’re not faster than me…you run
like a girl!” Lily jumped to her feet and set off at a sprint, her musical
laughter echoing behind her.
“I’ll get you Lily
Macrae! Just you wait!” Adam laughed heartily as he sprang up from the grass
and set off in pursuit.
And there began the
soundtrack to Adam and Lily’s lives…
