I am so excited to be a part of the blog tour for Shelly Crane’s newest masterpiece – Wide Awake – Did I mention that it just hit the NYT Bestseller list? Congratulations Shelly Crane!!
I hope you enjoy the excerpt, and be sure to enter to win your own ecopy of Wide Awake at the bottom of today’s post!
Synopsis:
A girl.
A coma.
A life she can’t remember.
When Emma Walker wakes up in
the hospital with no knowledge of how she got there, she learns that she’s been
in a coma for six months. Strangers show up and claim to be her parents, but she
can’t remember them. She can’t remember anyone. Not her friends, not even her
boyfriend. Even though she can’t remember, everyone wants her to just pick up
where she left off, but what she learns about the ‘old her’ makes her start to
wish she’d never woken up. Her boyfriend breaks up with the new girl he’s dating
to be with her, her parents want her to start planning for college, her friends
want their leader back, and her physical therapist with the hazel eyes keeps his
distance to save his position at the hospital.
Will she ever feel like she
recognizes the girl in the mirror?
smiled that Mason smile that set me on fire all over. Then he put one hand on
the other side on the hospital bed and the other lifted toward my face. I
waited, bated breath, gulping, sweaty palms, fluttering eyes, the works. His
face got so close before he stopped. I thought he had decided against whatever
he was doing he waited so long. I began to pull back in disappointment, but he
reached behind my neck gently and pulled me to him. The barest of touches was
the best way to describe our first kiss. It wasn’t really a kiss at all. His
bottom lip barely brushed my top one. When he leaned back and opened his eyes,
he must’ve seen the confusion and frustration in my face.
chuckled. “I just had to taste that coconut…” he licked his lips,
“but I don’t want to kiss you when you’ve been angry at me and I messed up
our date.” He said ‘date’. Like…a date. “I want to kiss you when if
we go another second without it, one of us will combust.”
My breaths were raging. I tried to calm myself. “I…” I failed.
want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole from you. And I
want it to be something that even a coma can’t make you forget.”