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SCARRED LOVE (SULFUR HEIGHTS #1) BY M.S. BRANNON
Published June 6th 2013
Publisher: Createspace
*eBook provided by the author and Tour Host for review*
Darcie Claiborne spent several years of her young life living with a monster, always fearing what he would do next. Clasping onto her last ounce of hope, Darcie releases a scream. It’s her final attempt to live; to survive the villain of her reality. Sweeping her up in his arms, Darcie’s knight in shining armor rescues her from the hell she’s been living; from the stepfather she's feared for all those years.
Reggie Evans has been forced to grow up before he’s ready when his mother dies of an overdose, leaving him responsible to raise his younger brothers. One fateful night, Reggie jogs by an old, run down house and discovers a young girl clinging to life as she screams for help.
Three years later, Darcie is healing and always protected by the man who saved her, but now she's fighting with something she isn't prepared to face. The growing love for the man who saved her life three years ago, the same man who’s nine years older. All the while, Reggie fights to protect Darcie from the demons of her past and new ones of her present.
**Mature Content Warning** 17+ for language and sexual content**
EXCERPT
Darcie ~ Age 12
“Darcie, your
stepfather does these things because you refuse to listen to anything I tell
you,” my mom says while swallowing a handful of pills with her glass of red
wine. “Just stay out of his way, be in your room when he’s home and it will
give him less of a reason to punish you.”
I’ve been putting up
with Robert’s punishments for eight years and I’ve come to the conclusion that
I will never escape them until I leave. My mom takes pills and drinks from her
bottle of wine several times a day. When she’s not drinking or downing pills,
she’s sleeping.
I despise my mother.
She’s weak and I fucking hate her.
She tells me I deserve
punishments and she’s probably right, but what she’s neglected to tell me is
why she allows him to do it. I barely remember what our life was like before
Robert Stein, but I know it was never this horrible. We managed to have fun and
I never lived in fear. Why did she let Robert change her? Isn’t a mother
supposed to protect their child? Once a child is born, isn’t their mother expected
to possess this sixth sense, that same kind of sense that can allow women to
lift cars off their children? My thoughts fade as soon as she squeezes the
ointment on her finger and rubs it onto the fresh cigar burns on my back and
thighs. Robert never gave me a reason why he did it other than he couldn’t find
his ashtray.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
M.S. Brannon was born and raised in the Midwest. She still resides there today with her wonderful husband and son. When she is not writing or reading, M.S. Brannon spends time with her family, watching movies, and discovering new music. She writes romance because she believes love and heartache is the rawest emotion one can experience.
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