Some of you were part of the journey as I wrote the story of Felix who had just woken up from a coma and Ebony his wife. Their story touched so many that months/years afterwards I kept getting asked when is it going to be published.
I'm so delighted that I can finally set my baby free into the world. It has been a long and sometimes difficult journey to get here and parts of the story has changed from the one I wrote 3 years ago but the core premise remains.
As one early Goodreads reviewer put it,
"It's a story of coming full circle through betrayals, heartaches, pride, loss, manipulations and ultimately finding acceptance and forgiveness through love. Kiru expertly crafted a well plotted and cleverly woven story-line full of suspense and intrigue at each turn; i was on the edge of my sit trying to decipher what secrets were being concealed and she kept up the suspense quite well."
So it is with much joy that I give you Keeping Secrets, the first book in the Essien Trilogy.
Blurb
Have
you ever loved someone and didn’t even know it?
That’s the dilemma facing Felix Essien when he wakes from a coma to find he is married to the most beautiful and sensual woman he’s ever known. He cannot remember her or their wedding; he who had sworn never to get married or to give his heart to another. Yet, he feels an intense bond with her that he intends to explore fully.
Ebony can’t believe her good fortune when her paper husband wakes not remembering the temporary marriage arrangement with no intimacies he’d proposed, and is now the adoring husband she’s always dreamt of.
She plans to make the most of the passion blossoming between them. However, would he still feel that way when he regains his memory and realises she’s been keeping secrets and their marriage is not what he thinks it is?
I chose
to share this excerpt for the Mid-Week Tease because it captures their conflict
beautifully and my heart skips a beat every time I read it. I hope you enjoy it
too.
Excerpt
The
vibrating phone prevented him from delving back in.
“That’ll
be Kola ready to take you home.” He ran his thumb across her lips.
She
stiffened and blinked. Then the shutters returned, her eyes hardening. Hands
shoved his chest. He let her go. She scrambled off his lap, turned her back to
him, and straightened her clothes.
“That
shouldn’t have happened.” Her whispery voice sounded strained.
Disappointment
punched his gut. Scrubbing a hand over his face, he dropped his head and closed
his eyes.
“Why?”
The one-word query tore from his lips, grated over open sores.
“You
said....”
Head
lifted and eyes opened, he stared at her stiffened back, her green,
gold-embroidered tunic draped over round hips and limbs encased in skinny black
denim. Those bum cheeks had cushioned his thighs moments ago. Staring at them
now, his arousal spiked.
If
he pulled her back into his arms, would she let him spread her out on the bed
and taste everything she had to offer?
Not
by the way she shunned him with her back and arms wrapped around her mid-riff.
“Ebony.”
Her name rolled off his lips, an entreaty.
“Felix,
I can’t do this.”
Bending
her knees, she picked up the discarded book, her tote, and walked towards the
door.
“Wait.”
Desperation.
Pride. Sheers bullheadedness. Whatever. Something made him stand despite the doctor
warning against it without support. Pain shot up his body. Sweat beaded his
forehead.
He
swayed, grabbed the bar at the bottom of the bed to steady himself.
Ebony
swivelled, eyes wide as saucers.
“Felix!
What are you doing?”
“I
can’t let you leave just like that,” he gritted past the pain turning his body
feverish. “Don’t go. Please.”
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Out in paperback May 12
Out in paperback May 12
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Imagine my joy at waking up Wednesday morning to find Keeping Secrets in the Amazon Hot New Releases chart among some of my favourite AA authors. And it's also in the AA Bestseller charts in Amazon UK.
THANK YOU to everyone who has 1-clicked it already. You guys rock!
Imagine my joy at waking up Wednesday morning to find Keeping Secrets in the Amazon Hot New Releases chart among some of my favourite AA authors. And it's also in the AA Bestseller charts in Amazon UK.
THANK YOU to everyone who has 1-clicked it already. You guys rock!
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