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Snark and Stage Frightby Stephanie Wardrop
Release Date: 03/10/15
Swoon Romance
Summary from Goodreads
Happily-ever-after isn’t as happy or forever as Jane Austen makes it look. Just something Georgia Barrett learns when her sharp tongue costs her the only guy she’s ever really cared about: Michael Endicott.
Determined to move on,
Georgia lands the lead role in the school’s fall musical. But to survive on
stage, she’ll need to learn to express herself without her protective shield of
snark. She soon discovers being honest with others means being honest with
herself, and the truth is she’s still in love with Michael.
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Excerpt
You would think that on a cloudless,
picture-postcard-perfect summer day, lying on a raft beside my boyfriend in his
pool, I would be incapable of worry.
But I am good at what I do.
Michael’s pool is one of my favorite places in the world,
because it looks like it was carved out of the woods by nature herself, like a
little lagoon accidentally popped up in a New England backyard about a century
ago. It’s very rocky and ferny and surrounded by beautiful exotic plants, lush
green and fuchsia and orange-colored plants that shouldn’t thrive in
Massachusetts but grow here like the happiest transplants ever.
And a month ago, on the night of the school prom, when I was
one of the least happy transplants to New England ever, Michael and I met here
and finally admitted that we actually really liked each other. It’s where he
kissed me for the very first time. So I should be luxuriating here on the raft
with him, basking in the sun and the enticing smells of chlorine and sunscreen,
but I’m not.
I’m too busy panicking because in a few days I am going to
be spending a week at Michael’s family’s summerhouse. Before I’d moved here to
Longbourne a year ago, I’d never even met someone who has a different house for
different seasons. I don’t even know what you wear at a summerhouse, but I
tried to sound casual as I tugged at my Target tankini and asked Michael, “So
it’s your dad’s sister’s house, right? And it’s on the beach?”
Michael nodded and stirred the water with his fingers,
making his own personal tiny tidal wave and watching it crash against the side
of the raft. One of the reasons I love him is because he seems so serious on
the outside but in private he does these silly boyish things like making
private tsunamis in the pool. And I have to admit he looks really good wet,
with his dark curls plastered to his head like one of those statues of Apollo
at a Greek temple, only with a tan, since he’s been teaching little kids to
swim every day at the YMCA in Netherfield.
“Are people going to
be, like, walking around in straw hats and white linen dresses all day, sipping
smart cocktails and playing croquet?” I asked.
Michael lifted his sunglasses, revealing his now squinting
dark eyes as a familiar smirk tugged at the corner of his mouth.
“We’re going to my aunt’s house on Cape Cod, George, not
into a deleted scene from The Great Gatsby.” He laughed. “We’ll drive there,
and traffic might be a pain, but we don’t require a time machine.”
I could tell he was amused but a little of weary of my
pre-travel angst. But summer family get-togethers at my house involve rickety
metal grills, inflatable pools for the kids, and lots of potato salad. I’m not
sure Michael understands I feel about as comfortable walking into a weeklong
celebration for his cousin Rose’s wedding as I would be to crash-land on an
island overrun by cannibals. Cannibals wouldn’t care if I wore last season’s
sandals or sipped out of the finger bowl. They wouldn’t even have finger bowls.
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About the Author
Stephanie Wardrop grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania, a town mostly famous for
being a railroad card in Monopoly. After giving up on her childhood goal of
becoming a pirate, she decided to become a writer but took a detour through
lots of college and grad school and ended up teaching writing and British and
American literature. She's the author of the Swoon Romance e-novella series
Snark and Circumstance, based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and lives
in western New England with her husband, kids, cats, and gecko.
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