In The Absence Of You
by Sunniva Dee
Publication date: June 28th 2016
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
by Sunniva Dee
Publication date: June 28th 2016
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
BLURB
Aishe is running.
Running from the burn of a love
she knows will consume her.
Running from a soul mate she’s never even met.
If only she hadn’t been hired as a merch girl for the hottest indie band on earth.
If only she’d never laid eyes on its front man, Emil—intense, sexy, and so unlike the men of her culture.
If only she hadn’t fallen onto his lips, then into his bed.
If only her flame hadn’t exploded into a full-on forest fire.
If only Emil’s heart didn’t belong to someone else.
***
Emil is running.
Running from a broken heart.
Running from who he was with her.
If only Zoe hadn’t left.
If only Aishe hadn’t been right there.
If only she hadn’t been so damn gorgeous—insistent—different.
If only he could control himself around her.
If. Only.
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AISHE
I come from a family that burns with love. You wouldn’t understand
unless you were one of us. I’m not just talking my father and my mother—I’m
talking every one of my ancestors. It’s in our genetic build to spend all of
our energy on love.
Once we come of age, it strikes and blazes with a fire that eats
you alive. This love is a plague that boils in my race and in my culture, and I
wouldn’t know a different way unless I’d broken free and seen strangers love
with milder flames.
Tonight, my eyes go from the merchandise on my table to the
blond-headed burst of life hopping off the stage. His gaze shimmers with
amusement, a cocky lip twitching as he slaps high-fives to guys and pinches
girl-cheeks on his way over.
“Aishe! You got those super-tight, hot little tees with the broken
heart thingy on the front? The ones the chicks dig?” he asks once he’s in front
of me, Emil, the vocalist of Clown Irruption, one of the hottest alt-rock
indie-bands out there. I’ve been their merch girl for a few months now. Each
night, I zoom in on Emil with less and less difficulty.
“Yeah. Troll picked them up this morning,” I say referring to
their tour manager.
“This is so cool—finally we see actual merch money,” Emil laughs
out. Then he sets a hand to the table and squints at me. “You’ve done much
better than your cousin. I mean, Shandor, man.” He shakes his head playfully.
“He couldn’t draw dudes to the stand worth shit.”
My face loosens in a smile. I send a subtle glance at Shandor,
who’s busy wrapping things up on stage, coiling cables and breaking down drums.
To sell T-shirts wasn’t what he burned for. Shandor was born with the plague of
our people too, but he hasn’t found his beloved yet. My people, we need
something to obsess over, so if it’s not a man’s love for a woman or vice
versa, it’s something else, and Shandor, he loves his music. Once the band promoted
him from merch guy to monitors on stage, he recommended me to fill his spot,
and voilà, here I am.
Shandor raises his head and stills on us, focus intent from under
dark locks. He’s got a sixth sense for when guys chitchat with me. Like me, he
left our traveling community years back, but the need to protect any girl of
our people is so deep-rooted I doubt he ever questions it. Shandor would do
everything in his power to stop any man, employer or not, from toying with his
little cousin.
I straighten so that I’m tall for my height. Though I’m not overly
curvy, I’m lean and strong. Supposedly, I’m also fiery, a bit fierce, a bit
ferocious, traits that make me who I am, traits I don’t need here in the
outside world as opposed to amongst those I was born to.
I intimidate most men with the stance I take right now, but I
can’t intimidate Shandor. He glares, telling me without words what not to do, and next he pierces his stare
into Emil’s back. Oblivious, Emil juts his index finger at the case of lukewarm
beers behind me, wiggles it back and forth quickly, lips pursed in
anticipation. “Hand over one of those babies, will ya?”
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Author Info
Between studies, teaching, and
advising, Sunniva has spent her entire adult life in a college environment.
Most of her novels are new adult romance geared toward smart, passionate
readers with a love for eclectic language and engaging their brain as well as
their heart while reading.
Born in the Land of the Midnight
Sun, the author spent her early twenties making the world her playground.
Southern Europe: Spain, Italy, Greece--Argentina: Buenos Aires, in particular.
The United States finally kept her interest, and after half a decade in Los
Angeles, she now lounges in the beautiful city of Savannah.
Sometimes, Sunniva writes with a
paranormal twist (Shattering Halos, Stargazer, and Cat Love). At other times,
it's contemporary (Pandora Wild Child, Leon's Way, Adrenaline Crush, Walking
Heartbreak, and Dodging Trains, coming in late March 2016).
This author is the happiest when
her characters let their emotions run off with them, shaping her stories in
ways she never foresaw. She loves bad-boys and good-boys run amok, and like in
real life, her goal is to keep the reader on her toes until the end of each
story.
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