[NEW POST] Blog Tour + Giveaway of Sweet Soul (Sweet Home Series #4) by Tillie Cole
Title: Sweet Soul
Series: Sweet Home #4
Author: Tillie Cole
Age group: New adult
Genre:
Contemporary romance
Release date: 15th December 2015
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One shy lost soul.
One
silent lonely heart.
One love to save them both.
Life has never been easy for twenty-year-old
Levi Carillo. The youngest of the Carillo boys, Levi is nothing like his older
brothers. He isn’t dark in looks or intimidating to everyone he meets. In fact,
he’s quite the opposite. Haunted by a crippling shyness and the tragic events
of his past, Levi spends his days with his head buried in his books, or
training hard for his college football team. Too timid to talk to girls, Levi
stays as far away as possible and completely on his own… until he saves the
life of a troubled pretty blonde, a troubled pretty blonde that might just be
the exception to his rule.
Elsie Hall is homeless. Or at least that’s
all anyone ever sees. Everyday is a fight for survival on the cold streets of
Seattle, everyday a struggle to find food and keep warm. Alone in life—a life
that’s dangerous and cruel—her will to keep going is an ever-losing battle. In
her world of silence, Elsie has given up hope that her life will contain
anything but constant struggle and pain… until the beautiful boy she has
severely wronged comes to her rescue at precisely the right time.
New Adult novel—contains sexual situations
and mature topics. Suited for ages 18 and up.
*****
EXCERPT:
Elsie grabbed her pen and
paper; I took her hand. I walked her out of the pool house to the kitchen door.
I opened the door, and Elsie walked through. When she glanced over her
shoulder, I said, “I’ll see you tomorrow.”
Elsie smiled and walked up the
stairs to her room. Just as I was about to shut the door, Lexi appeared from
the darkened dining room, a sleeping Dante in her arms.
I opened my mouth to say
something when Lexi beat me to it. “Dante woke up for a feed a while ago. I was
in the dining room when I saw Elsie run by and leave. I panicked at first
thinking she was running away, then I saw you by your pool house. Saw you let
her inside.”
My face was on fire as Lexi
spoke, rocking my nephew in her arms. I didn’t say anything, but I clearly
didn’t need to. “You like her. A lot,” Lexi stated. Unable to lie to my
brother’s wife, I nodded my head.
Lexi moved closer. “You’re
taking her out tomorrow?”
“Yeah.”
Lexi nodded, then went to walk
back up the stairs. Before she did, she turned round, and looked like she
wanted to say something, but stopped herself. Needing to know what it was, I
questioned, “What?”
Lexi looked in the direction
of the stairs, in the direction Elsie went, and she said, “I think she’s been
through more than we can understand, Lev. I’ve tried to talk to her every day,
but she avoids conversation completely.” Lexi sighed and added, “I think she’s
really broken inside. Severely. I think there’s something dark in her past
that’s haunting her.”
My heart ached, and just as I
turned to go back to my room, I whispered, “Then we’re the same. That’s what
makes her so special to me.”
“Lev…” I heard Lexi hush out
softly, but I was out of the door and into the pool house before she could
react.
My mind raced with what Lexi
said, but it wasn’t anything I couldn’t already see. Elsie didn’t speak, she
was too timid and shy. She’d lost her
mamma, like I had lost mine. And I could see she was lonely, just like me.
Taking off my jacket, I walked
to the table to clear away the mugs, when I saw a piece of paper was lying on
the top. I wondered what it was. Suddenly I recognized Elsie’s handwriting.
Moving round the table, I
dropped to the seat. The paper was folded in two, my name written across the
top.
My heartbeat picked up speed
as I opened the paper. At first I was confused by the centralized column of
words, then my heart burst apart when I read a poem that Elsie had written:
Alone and lost, appeared this saint,
With pretty gray eyes, darkness can’t taint.
He stole her from cold, from blustering storm,
Kind and gentle, he took her from harm.
Fearful of dark, he created her light,
A jar of gold, chasing demons of night.
Telling stories of love, he brought to her life,
A moment by his side: no pain, no strife.
He gifted her poems, a gesture on whim,
With every word read, she could see only him.
She counted the days until he returned home,
The boy with his light, the girl not alone.
Invisible to all, a shade wandering in dark,
He brought back her faith, with his pure kind heart.
I love poetry, Levi.
Thank you for the book.
Elsie x
*******
AUTHOR
BIO - SHORT VERSION
Amazon & USA Today Best Selling Author, Tillie Cole is
a Northern girl through and through. She originates from a place called
Teesside on that little but awesomely sunny (okay I exaggerate) Isle called
Great Britain. She was brought up surrounded by her English rose mother — a
farmer’s daughter, her crazy Scottish father,
a savagely sarcastic sister and a multitude of rescue animals and horses.
AUTHOR
BIO - LONG VERSION
Amazon & USA Today Best Selling Author,
Tillie Cole, is a Northern girl through and through. She originates from a
place called Teesside on that little but awesomely sunny (okay I exaggerate)
Isle called Great Britain. She was brought up surrounded by her English rose
mother -- a farmer's daughter, her crazy Scottish father, a savagely sarcastic
sister and a multitude of rescue animals and horses.
Being a scary blend of Scottish and English,
Tillie embraces both cultures; her English heritage through her love of HP
sauce and freshly made Yorkshire Puddings, and her Scottish which is mostly
demonstrated by her frighteningly foul-mouthed episodes of pure rage and her
much loved dirty jokes.
Having been born and raised as a Teesside
Smoggie, Tillie, at age nineteen, moved forty miles north to the 'Toon',
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, where she attended Newcastle University and graduated with
a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Religious Studies. She returned two years
later to complete a Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching High School Social
Studies. Tillie, regards Newcastle to be a home from home and enjoyed the
Newcastle Geordie way of life for seven 'proper mint' and 'lush' years.
One summers day, after finishing reading her
thousandth book on her much loved and treasured Kindle, Tillie turned to her
husband and declared, "D'you know, I have a great idea for a story. I
could write a book." Several months later, after repeating the same tired
line at the close of another completed story, she was scolded by her husband to
shut up talking about writing a novel and "just bloody do it!" For
the first time in eleven years, Tillie actually took his advice (he is still
trying to get over the shock) and immediately set off on a crazy journey,
delving deep into her fertile imagination.
Tillie, ever since, has written from the
heart. She combines her passion for anything camp and glittery with her love of
humour and dark brooding men (most often muscled and tattooed – they’re her weakness!). She
also has a serious side (believe it or not!) and loves to immerse herself in
the complex study of World Religions, History and Cultural Studies and creates
fantasy stories that enable her to thread serious issues and topics into her
writing -- yep, there's more to this girl than profanity and sparkles!
After six years of teaching high school
Social Studies and following her Professional Rugby Player husband around
Europe, they have finally given up their nomadic way of life and settled in
Calgary, Alberta where Tillie spends most of her days (and many a late night)
lost in a writing euphoria or pursuing a dazzling career as a barrel-racing,
tasselled-chap wearing, Stetson-sporting cowgirl... Ye-haw!
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http://tilliecole.com
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