The Pleasure of Reading Today: Cover Reveal: One More Breath by Delaney Williams

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Cover Reveal: One More Breath by Delaney Williams

Title: One More Breath

Author: Delaney Williams

Cover Reveal Date: Feb 14, 2015

Release Date: February 21, 2015

Cover Model: Steve Gehrke https://www.facebook.com/pages/Steve-Elvis-Gehrke
Cover Design: Robin Harper at https://www.facebook.com/wickedbookcovers

Cover Photo Credit: Gabe Myers at TrueSound Photography http://www.facebook.com/GabeTruesound

Editing on all photos: Andy Winn at Winn Photography https://www.facebook.com/WinnPhotoDenver

Excerpt

Sometimes, in the middle of the night, or the calm after a big storm, when the world seems new and fresh, when one can feel the rightness of the world falling into place, I forget. This is my favorite time; this is the point between old and new and the fresh and used. It is that point when I can pretend that I too am fresh and new. I can stand in the rain and shower off the old me, shedding it like the skin of a snake; with it goes the terrors and pain and I am left fresh. For a time. Then, I look down and see the scars, feel the terror and smell the fear. Yes, fear has a smell, a very distinct, very real smell. I am sure it is a different smell for everyone; for me it is lemons, coppery lemons. The fear I smell the most though is one that brings most peace. And the sounds, oh the sounds that come screaming back into my head. They don’t leave. They never leave. They come screaming back, fast and furious, like a Japanese bullet train. Always on course, always on time. They crush me with the weight of the fear they bring with them. I have to escape. I need release; it is why I run in these early hours, in the rain and storms that other people stay out of.

I dress in my running gear and open myself up to the cathartic release I get from lacing up my shoes and I step out the door. I know I can’t out run my past. I know I cannot escape the fears and pain, or erase the scars, but I can forget for a time. I can find that release. With each pounding footstep I feel calmer. I feel the terrors of my dreams fade and I can see the new day rising. What was done was done, I cannot change that. I am a new person now. New face, new name, new life. The run clears my mind and as I reach the end, the clearing of Aspens, with leaves now turning, looking golden and on fire in the early morning sun; I feel renewed. I love these mountains and their glorious, ever-changing beauty. The trees can be at once skeletal remains and yet grow, not giving in to nature, to become the beautiful fireballs before me, an amazing creation I am currently standing in awe of. Proof that life goes on; it continues. The world turns, the sun rises and sets and no one will remember what once was. Out of breath and energy, I lay down in the meadow and watch the sun continue its rise, preparing myself for another day. A day spent hiding myself yet being the most free I have ever been at the same time. Today, I start again...

BACK COVER/ SHORT SYNOPSIS - **trigger warning:CANCER **

Ander has spent his entire life trying to forget his past indescretions. He owns the best tattoo shop in town and works himself the the bone. Hen ever lefts anyone, even co-workers, near him.

So when small, scarred, shy, and broken Leire comes into his shop and requests his work, it begins to feel like fate may have interviened,

Can these two broken souls help heal each other?

Can Ander and Leire endure even more heartbreak and come out stronger and together?

Will they get one more breathe and will it be for these two lovers?