Spotlight: The First Kiss by Grace Burrowes: Excerpt and Giveaway!


Title: The First Kiss 
Author: Grace Burrowes 
Release Date: February 3, 2015 
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca 
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Rating:♨♨♨♨ (4 cups of sweetness, flirty romance that appears light and fluffy but carries a hefty weight when it comes to its wonderful characters and exquisite details of the day to day living of this family.  Wonderful addition to the series!)

Review:  
This was very sweet, riveting and entertaining. Although it has the elements of being a light and fluffy romance, the characters of James and Vera takes it into deeper level making this novel a bit multilayered than it initial appears to be. The details in the writing is very evident in Ms. Burrowes historical novels are also clearly evident in her contemporary novels as well. The happily ever afters don't seem farfetched when it comes coupled with such logical and realistic descriptions. James and Vera were interesting lead characters who are both flawed but didn't really frustrate the reader in unnecessary scenes or plot devices rooted in miscommunications or irrelevant events. The First Kiss is a must read for fans of contemporary romances. Looking forward to the next in the series

Synopsis:
 Classical pianist Vera Waltham is recovering from a bad break up by taking a hiatus with her daughter in the Damson Valley countryside. She’s content with her music, and has no interest in complicating her life with further attempts at romance. Attorney James Knightley is a numbers guy who reads contractual fine print for lunch, and wants nothing to do with damsels, in distress or otherwise. Nobody is more surprised than James when he falls for Vera Waltham, and the only contract on James’s mind when it comes to Vera is holy matrimony. 

Exclusive Excerpt and Giveaway!

Excerpt:

“May I ask you a favor?” 

“Of course.” 

“Play the piano for me?” 

Nowhere near play with me, but this was Vera. 

“You want to do a lesson now?” 

“This isn’t a lesson. I’m asking you to play for me, James. Get out your old favorites, the friends you turn to when you’re heartsore and soul weary, the consolation pieces that aren’t for everybody else. You play them for yourself.”

She curled up across the room in a pap-san chair and pulled an old quilt around her. 

Could he do this? 

If Vera had asked James to go to bed with her, he would have known he was competent to bring her pleasure, to satisfy her most intimate wishes and secret, sexual desires. But this? To play? For her?

She wanted music that had called to him, spoken to his soul and become a part of him. Pieces of his heart. 

James set his hands on the keyboard, took a slow, deep breath, and began to play. He played from memory, his fingers finding the notes easily in the dim light. He could play this waltz with his eyes closed, and he had, many times. He hadn’t heard it since the night his mother had died, but she’d loved it too, and his hands would never forget how to craft the phrases and melodies. 

“Oh, James, the Chopin.” Vera signed her pleasure at his choice, and James’s heart sighed with her. He could do this for her, soothe her with music the way she’d made music to soothe and delight so many others. The waltz shifted from a work he’d set aside years ago – a grieving piece – to a gift from him to Vera. 

Only to Vera. 

When the last rippling rise of notes died away, Vera remained curled up, eyes closed, mouth slightly parted. 

James had played her to sleep. He took a moment to memorize the sight of her, safe and at peace under the quilt his mother had made for her hope chest. 

Then he thought back over other pieces he’d set aside, the ones that were too sweet or too sorrowful or both, and he began to play again. 




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Author Biography

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes' bestsellers include The Heir, The Soldier, Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal, Lady Sophie's Christmas Wish and Lady Eve's Indiscretion. Her Regency romances have received extensive praise, including starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. Grace is branching out into short stories and Scotland-set Victorian romance with Sourcebooks. She is a practicing family law attorney and lives in rural Maryland.





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