Can
two souls with fractured parts be the best cure for each other’s wounds? Find
out the first book in Mika Jolie’s latest #contemporaryromance series, Poison
and Wine, with SOMEWHERE TO BEGIN.
There are wounds that never show on the
body.
For
twenty-nine years, Colbie Bennington does as expected with an eternal smile
stained on her lips. The biggest chances she’s ever taken can be counted on one
hand, three fingers to be exact—her battered red chucks, painting her toenails
a vibrant blue, and her wedding dress. Always the dutiful daughter and a
Stepford fiancée, she has never acted on impulse, never been in love.
She’s
never lived.
On
her wedding day, Colbie ends a toxic relationship, drops the fake smile, and
says, “I can’t do this anymore.”
Navy
SEAL Zander Serrano returns home broken and burdened with a volcano of remorse.
Too trapped in a mental war to be at peace and too damaged to be at war, he
shuts the world out. The last thing he expects is to feel, especially for a
runaway bride with her own baggage.
Two
empty hearts marred in different spots find themselves drawn to one another.
Each with their own scars. Some, the
world can see. Others, unseen to the naked eye.
They
say two broken people should not be together. But for Colbie and Zander, their
attraction is undeniable, unexpected.
Can
two souls with fractured parts be the best cure for each other’s wounds?
Starting
over is never easy, but sometimes in life, everyone needs somewhere to begin.
Guilt was the first thing that came to Zander. Had he not blacked
out, she would have never skidded off the road to avoid a rear-end collision
with his truck. But remorse only played a small role in his daily visits.
Something about her made him feel as if he were looking at his soul, cracked
and damaged, holding on by the last frayed thread.
He continued to assess her. Hair,the
color of piano keys, tumbled like beached kelp after a storm, ruffled
but certainly not in a way usually shown on the cover of a magazine. He could
tell she’d been through hell—the ugly bruises on her arms marred the pink
softness of her delicate skin, the wedding dress, the lack of visitors—but that
only gave her beauty an edge. It felt immoral to look upon her, and yet he
found it equally unrighteous to look away.
She wore pain like it was the grandest of diamonds around her neck.
Colbie Bennington was a wounded bird, and if there was one thing
Zander couldn’t resist, it was being the hero. He’d always been a magnet for trouble but not
troubled women. Playing the White Knight or falling for helpless women had
never been his thing either.
Common sense told him
each day not to return to the hospital. For two days, he’d been the only one
here. He knew. He checked each time. He had a sister and there was Paige
Harris—the woman he considered as much a sibling as Lily. Between those three
women, he’d developed some deep intuitive understanding of the female gender,
when something was wrong. Colbie was running from something.
And maybe because pain recognized pain, he saw she was broken. For
the first time since returning home, Zander felt emotion, hot and
all-consuming. His need-to-protect radar
was going off full tilt. A pointless task, he tried to tell himself, but his subconscious remained stubborn. He couldn’t
help it; he was conditioned.
“I want to make sure you’re
safe,” he said, and for a moment, he actually felt as if he’d discovered his
destiny.
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Mika Jolie is the bestselling author of the Martha’s Way
series. She lives in New Jersey with her Happy Chaos—her husband and their
energizer bunnies. A sports fanatic and a wine aficionado, she’s
determined to balance it all and still write about life experiences and matters
of the heart. Let’s face it, people are complicated and love can be messy. When
she’s not weaving life and romance into evocative tales, you can find her on a
hiking adventure, apple picking, or whatever her three men can conjure up.
She loves to hear
from readers.
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