Festival Fireworks by Ann Burnett - Book Tour
Festival Fireworks by Ann Burnett @lovebooksgroup
Aussie Jill arrives in Edinburgh at Festival time, at the start of a gap year. Unfortunately, her boss at the temporary job she's taken turns out to be her grumpy neighbour, Andrew, aka Mr Bossy. As the Festival fireworks explode over the city every night, they start to fall in love. Then Jill has to return suddenly to Australia. Can their budding romance survive or will the fireworks fizzle and die?
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Andrew turned to her
and took hold of her hands.
‘I want to thank you
for arranging an absolutely fabulous party and to apologise for my bad-temper,
my bad behaviour, and anything else bad about me that you don’t like.’
Jill stared at him,
open-mouthed. He was apologising to her? Mr. Bossy Big-boots was actually
saying sorry?
He must have seen
her shock. ‘I really do mean it. It was one of the best parties we’ve ever had,
and there were some interesting and hopefully lucrative contacts made. Some
people will owe you a great vote of thanks.’
Jill nodded, still
shocked. ‘Sam,’ she said. ‘He said he might get a contract from tonight.’
‘Exactly. And it’s
all thanks to you.’
‘Not entirely. You
made up the guest list, I just did what you asked. Well, after a fashion,’ she
added, remembering the fiasco about the venue.
‘But the party
wouldn’t have been so relaxed, and people wouldn’t have mixed so well if we’d
had it where you booked it originally.’
‘Then, thank your
neighbours. They really got things going.’
Andrew smiled at
her. ‘You’re determined not to take any credit for it, are you? But I’m
thanking you… like this.’
He pulled her
towards him and bent his mouth to hers. Jill closed her eyes as his lips met
hers. They were warm and sweet tasting, soft and tender, and kissed just the
way she liked being kissed. She sighed gently and let herself draw even closer
into his arms. Their kiss deepened, their mouths opened to each other, their
bodies fitted themselves into each other, adjusting till closeness and warmth
were satisfied. Heaven could not be any more perfect.
Their lips parted,
their eyes opened, and they looked at each other in a new way; a new
recognition taking over from the old. Mr. Bossy was gone, Mr. MacCallum-Blair
was gone, only Andrew was left. Her Andrew. Jill smiled up at him and moved to
kiss him again.
A loud buzz sounded.
Andrew drew apart
from her. ‘Who can be wanting in at this time of the night?’ he said. He walked
into the hall, flipped the switch on the entry phone, and said sharply, ‘Yes?’ into
the speaker.
‘Police,’ came the
tinny reply.
Author Bio
Ann Burnett has been writing for many years and covers many genres. She wrote Postman Pat stories for a comic for five years, adapted Moomin stories as picture books, and scripted over 100 programmes for BBC children's TV and radio. She also writes short stories and articles and has even tried poetry and drama!
Her latest writing is a contemporary romance, Festival Fireworks, for Ladybug Publications.
She was once almost sold to a Masai warrior for two cows but was only saved because her husband wouldn't have been able to get the cows on the plane home!
Her website and blog about writing is at annburnett.co.uk
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