All the Right Things (Love in LA) (21 page)
“What! Are you serious? That’s so great, honey,” he gushed, lifting his wineglass to clink against hers. “Cheers to the two of you.”
“Thanks. I’m still kind of in shock, but I’m so happy. This was the best weekend ever.”
Alex laughed. “Better than Phoenix?”
“Ten times better than Phoenix,” she agreed with a smug smile. “I can’t wait until we leave for New York.”
Annie sighed in contentment as she leaned back into her couch, her stomach full of delicious lasagna and her heart full of love for Casey. She was hanging out and having dinner and drinks with her best friend who was always there for her. She had an amazing family and friends who supported her every step of the way. Life just didn’t get better than this. Everything seemed to be falling into place for her. She didn’t know what the future held or what might happen in New York during the auditions, but for the first time in her life, Annie felt like all the right things were happening at the right time. She was ready to kick some ass.
Don’t miss the sequel to
All the Right Things
, coming out in Fall 2014!
The Winner Takes It All
Turn to the back for an excerpt from
Tattooed Dots
By Kimberly Knight
There are so many people I have to thank for being a part of this journey. If I miss mentioning anyone by name, I apologize, but please know I love and appreciate all of you who have been there for me as I’ve pursued this crazy dream of mine. Thanks first and foremost to my family and friends for your love and continued support. I wouldn’t be who I am or where I am today without you.
My heartfelt thanks again to Kimberly Knight, my BFFL, who introduced me to the indie author community and taught me about self-publishing. You have been my mentor, but more importantly, you have been a great friend. You’ve stood by me through some of my darkest moments, and I am grateful that you are in my life. Thank you for everything.
Many thanks to my awesome betas, Kimberly Knight, Julie Prestsater, Avienne Savie, Christina Lefferts and Stacy Nickelson. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy lives to give me feedback.
Thank you to my street team, The Harte Breakers! I appreciate all the time and effort you put into helping me promote my books.
Thanks to the talented Christopher Neil, my amazing new cover artist. He redid both covers for
Love in All the Wrong Places
and
All the Right Things
, and I’m so in love with both of them! Chris, you are the man—always there for me when I need my artwork tweaked for new swag orders. Thank you for your patience and friendship.
Thanks to Angela McLaurin of Fictional Formats for being the best formatter ever! You have made my babies beautiful, and I love you for it. You have been great to work with, and I appreciate everything you do for me.
Thanks to Christina Lefferts for agreeing to meet me in Hawaii when I was there on vacation, and for treating me to lunch at CPK and introducing me to the Hokulani Bake Shop. Those cupcakes were delicious and a big hit at my family cookout! I had so much fun with you and am so pleased we’ve become good friends since then. I so admire you and your entire family for living life to the fullest. You guys are awesome and an inspiration to me. And thanks for always being there for me whenever I needed to vent about stupid boys!
Thanks to Melissa Price Iorio for showing me that there are people in this world who have gone through the worst possible experiences, but who still find joy in spreading love and sunshine whenever they can. I can’t wait to meet you and give you the biggest hug ever. I have faith it will happen!
Thanks to Sandy Rizzotto DiPiazza for being willing to rescue a complete stranger from being alone and miserable in Brooklyn. Even though we didn’t get to meet that time, I know that will be rectified soon! You are an amazing woman with the biggest heart, and I can’t wait to give you a big hug. And thanks to JL Brooks for reaching out to her for me!
Thanks to JL Brooks—lady, you amaze me for real! I am in awe of your talent and your seemingly endless supply of energy and positivity. I can’t wait to meet you! We still need to karaoke and go dancing, by the way.
Thanks to Kimi Flores—my local, author girlfriend! I swear we are going to get better about meeting up. We live less than an hour from each other. I think a trip to Porto’s is in order! Thank you for your friendship and words of encouragement. I’m so thrilled to be on this journey with you. We released our first books around the same time last year, and we’re releasing our second books around the same time this year! Go us!
Thanks to Jodi Murphy for being the most amazing assistant ever! I’m so glad we met at my first signing when I volunteered at the LA Authors Event at the Universal Sheraton. You are a beautiful woman with an even more beautiful soul. I am so glad you found your other half, even if it meant you moved so far away from me—you deserve to be happy! I can’t wait to see you and am so thrilled I get to have you as my assistant again!
Last but certainly not least, thank you to the wonderful blogs who signed up to do my tour for All the Right Things: BJ’s Book Blog, Unknown Book Reviews, Book Addict Mumma, Butterflies, Books & Dreams, Liezel’s Book Blog, It Started With a Book, Stephanie’s Book Reports, Stories & Swag, Smart & Savvy With Stephanie, Cocktails & Books, Kristie’s Kaptivating Reviews and Winding Stairs Book Blog. I thank you for your support and willingness to help spread the word about my latest work. Make sure you like these awesome blogs on Facebook!
Audrey Harte was born and raised on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii until she and her family moved to Nebraska where she attended junior high, high school and college. During her time in Nebraska, she pursued her love of the arts, acting and singing in several local theater productions as well as writing poems, plays and musicals in her spare time.
In 1998, she moved to Los Angeles, California, where she has lived ever since. Her main interests are reading (primarily romance, erotica and fantasy, although she has been known to read the occasional thriller), writing (obviously), karaoke (which she now gets to do more regularly now that her karaoke buddy has moved back from NYC), finger crocheting blankets and hangers for friends and family (she doesn’t use a hook), watching her favorite TV shows (she watches way too many) and hanging out with friends going walking, hiking and kayaking. She is a serious reality TV show addict. Really, she may need an intervention at some point. Before writing started consuming all of her time, she used to play
World of Warcraft
with Kimberly Knight and various free-to-play Facebook games.
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Thank you for taking the time to read
All the Right Things
. I hope you enjoyed reading more about Annie’s adventures and will pick up a copy of the conclusion to the Love in L.A. series,
The Winner Takes it All
, when it releases in Fall 2014.
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I recently announced that I will be doing a crossover series titled Love in N.Y.C.
Say Anything
is the first book in the series and will most likely be releasing in Winter 2014. This new series will be my first venture into writing in first person, so I hope it turns out well. Keep an eye on my Facebook fan page for more news on upcoming books, and you can always check the Events tab on my website to see what book signings I will be at.
The moment I held my beautiful baby girl, Cheyenne, in my arms five years ago, I swore to myself that I would never let anything happen to her. Her mom, Dana, and I married right out of high school. We had no idea what we were getting into, and then before I knew it, she was pregnant with Cheyenne. When Dana held her hand out with the pregnancy test, smiling and jumping for joy, I thought nothing could go wrong in my world. I was doing what I thought we were supposed to do: marriage, babies, forever.
We were high school sweethearts. Now those high school sweethearts sit at two separate wood tables inside a courtroom, awaiting a judge to tell me how much I owe the bitch who gave me the greatest gift I never realized I wanted or needed.
We had been sitting in the courtroom for five days straight. We didn’t have much to fight over, but the one thing I wouldn’t budge on was my daughter. Dana was trying to do everything in her power to get full custody. She even went so far as to have her attorney request that the judge order a drug test for me.
Of course, the drug test came back negative. I hadn’t smoked weed or done anything else but drink since before the bitch was pregnant. Now as the trial was coming to an end, my nerves were running through me, and I wanted to do nothing but roll a fat one and blow the smoke in her cunt face.
Over the last year of our rocky marriage, Dana acted like an angel and painted me as the
bad guy
. We used to smoke up after the high school Friday night football games when we would party with the rest of the school. We didn’t stop smoking because it was
bad
for us; we quit because we were poor and needed all our extra cash to eat, especially since we were kids playing house with an extra mouth to feed in less than nine months.
The day Dana told me she was pregnant, I answered an ad for a shoot and started my modeling career. I’m not gonna lie and tell you that we are only getting divorced because of Dana and her nagging ways. I’ll tell you the truth: I cheated on her repeatedly with whores. It was so easy when all that the
whores
saw was a pretty face and a nice body, and Dana stayed home to take care of Cheyenne.