Title: The Boys of Summer
Author: C.J. Duggan
Release date: December 17th
2012
Genre: Romance
Age Group: New Adult
It seemed only natural to nickname them the ‘Onslow Boys’. Every time they swaggered in the front door of the Onslow Hotel after a hard week’s work, their laughter was loud and genuine as they settled onto their bar stools. I peeked through the restaurant partition, a flimsy divider between my world and theirs. I couldn’t help but smile whenever I saw them, saw him ... Toby Morrison.
Quiet seventeen-year-old Tess doesn’t relish the thought of a summertime job. She wants nothing more than to forget the past haunts of high school and have fun with her best friends before the dreaded Year Twelve begins.
To Tess, summer is when everything happens: riding bikes down to the lake, watching the fireworks at the Onslow Show and water bomb fights at the sweltering Sunday markets.
How did she let her friends talk her into working?
After first-shift disasters, rude, wealthy tourists and a taunting ex-boyfriend, Tess is convinced nothing good can come of working her summer away. However, Tess finds unlikely allies in a group of locals dubbed ‘The Onslow Boys’, who are old enough to drive cars, drink beer and not worry about curfews. Tess’s summer of working expands her world with a series of first times with new friends, forbidden love and heartbreaking chaos.
All with the one boy she has never been able to forget.
It will be a summer she will always remember.
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Excerpt
Moon rays filtered
through the windshield, giving the cabin an otherworldly glow.
Toby’s perfect
teeth were illuminated when he smiled. “You know, you are the worst
winner!” He shook his head. “Ever since you won the bet, you’ve
been apologising. Just go with it, enjoy it, because I assure you,
next time …” - he leaned closer - “… you will not be the
winner.” He pulled back, smug.
I curved a brow.
“Next time?”
He nodded. “I
fully intend to redeem myself.”
“Want a chance to
rebuild your shattered ego, do you? I bet you’re itching to fix my
bike so you can be rid of me once and for all.” I shouldered him
gently, teasing him as I would Adam. And then I realised what I had
done; I had treated him like my friends. He looked down at his
shoulder, then up at me. His eyes shadowed with untold meanings that
I couldn’t read.
“What if I didn’t
want to fix your bike?” he said in all seriousness.
“Why, is my
company so stimulating that you can’t bear the thought of being
without me?” I teased nervously.
I was aiming for
light and airy, but something must have gone wrong with my delivery
because Toby’s face went blank. He looked out into the lights of
Onslow, ran his tongue over his bottom lip and sighed.
C.J Duggan is an Australian author who lives with her husband in a rural border town of New South Wales, Australia.
The Boys of Summer is Book One in her Mature Young Adult Romance Series.
For more on C.J and ‘The Summer Series’, visit www.cjdugganbooks.comLinks: Facebook Blog Goodreads Boys of Summer Facebook Twitter
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