EXCERPT
Can Dreams Come True?
(The Cecily Taylor Series Book 1)
(The Cecily Taylor Series Book 1)
by Krysten
Lindsay Hager
Can Dreams Come True? is currently on tour with YA Bound Book Tours. The tour stops here
today for an excerpt. Please be sure to visit the other tour stops as well.
For more books by this author, please check out True Colors (read my blog post), Next Door to a Star (read my blog post), Competing With the Star (read my blog post), and Dating the It Guy (read my blog post).
Description
Cecily has always had a huge crush on singer Andrew Holiday and she wants
to be an actress, so she tags along when her friend auditions for his new
video. However, the director isn’t looking for an actress, but rather the girl
next door - and so is Andrew. Cecily gets a part in the video and all of
Andrew’s attention on the set. Her friend begins to see red and Cecily’s
boyfriend is seeing green - as in major jealousy. A misunderstanding leaves
Cecily and her boyfriend on the outs and Andrew hopes to pick up the pieces as
he’s looking for someone more stable in his life than the models he’s dated. Soon
Cecily begins to realize Andrew understands her more than her small-town
boyfriend - but can her perfect love match really be her favorite rock star?
Excerpt
Andrew sat back and nodded. “Well, Dimitri got
the song, you know? He understood what I was looking for—a relationship where
two people understand each other on a spiritual level. You know, where their
souls connect. Make sense?”
“Yeah, is that what you have with your
girlfriend?” I asked hoping it didn’t look like I as phishing for info on who
he was dating.
He shook his head. “Nah, I’ve never had
anything like that before. But it’s the ultimate idea though, you know? How
about you?”
“No, never,” I said and then I felt guilt wash
over me. “I mean, I’ve had deep connections with people—just not what you’re
talking about or what Dimitri said—the whole deep mystical thing.”
Andrew stared at me and I felt like he was
looking into my soul. “Sometimes it feels like it’s impossible to get that
connection with anybody. Or you think you’re halfway there and they say they
get you, but then something happens and you know they weren’t as deep into it
as you were—or at least as deep as you were hoping. That’s the inspiration for
next song I’m working on. It’s about when you want to believe so badly that you
have a soul connection, then something happens and you realize it was just
another superficial relationship. That’s the title: Just Another Superficial
Relationship.”
“Wow, I can’t wait to hear it.”
“I can sing you the chorus if you want,” he
said.
Holding my breath, I tried to be cool and not
squeal with delight that my favorite singer was about to not only sing for me,
but let me hear an unreleased song. This was like a dream come true and it made
me question if I hadn’t indeed fallen into the water and hit my head on some
rocks, and was now either dreaming this in a coma somewhere or this was my own
personal version of heaven. I felt guilty for inwardly gushing over Andrew when
I had a boyfriend. But this wasn’t about me being interested in going out with
Andrew. It would never happen anyway. This was just me meeting my crush who
happened to be a singer, who I felt understood my feelings more than anyone
else.
Andrew sang the chorus and a warmth washed
over me. The song was perfect—the yearning, the longing—I had experienced all
of it myself. It was like he had taken all my innermost thoughts and somehow
put them into words.
“Amazing,” I said. My whole body was warm as
my mind raced. Was I actually sitting here with him and having him trust me
enough to share a new song? This was beyond anything I had dreamt of happening
today.
Praise for the Book
“Best cute love story that I read after some time. Loved the way how the
love grows between Cecily and Andrew. After reading the story I felt that,
dreams can really come true. I am waiting to see what happens next in the
story.” ~ Hasanthi
“I absolutely loved it and the love that grew between Cecily and Andrew
was really pivotal and truly romantic. I think a lot of young girls will be
able to relate to Cecily.” ~ Janet
Greaves
About the Author
Krysten Lindsay Hager writes about friendship,
self-esteem, fitting in, frenemies, crushes, fame, first loves, and values. She
is the author of True Colors, Best Friends…Forever?, Next Door to a Star, Landry in Like, Competing With the Star, and Dating the It Guy. True Colors,
won the Readers Favorite award for best preteen book and the Dayton Book Expo
Bestseller Award for childen/teens. Competing with the Star is a Readers' Favorite Book Award Finalist.
Krysten's work has been featured in USA Today, The Flint Journal, the Grand
Haven Tribune, the Beavercreek Current, the Bellbrook Times, Springfield
News-Sun, Grand Blanc View, Dayton Daily News and on the talk show Living
Dayton.
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