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Title: You and Everything
After (Falling #2)
Author: Ginger
Scott
Age:
NA
Genre: Contemporary
Romance
Release
date:
December 5, 2014
I’m that teenaged girl who has MS. You haven’t met me, but
you’ve seen me around. You probably know my sister. We’re twins, and she’s the
pretty one. Maybe you’ve heard about my reputation, how much I like to hook up
at parties—how easy it is to get me in bed, get what you want, and forget
about me after.
Forget what you think you know. I’m leaving that girl behind.
College is all about new beginnings. So from now on—I’m just Cass. And the rest…it isn’t written yet. And
no one else gets to write my story for me.
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“Tyson Preeter doesn’t do can’t.”
That’s exactly what I want people to think when they see me. I am strong, invincible, confident,
intelligent—arrogant. I’m the man who always finds a way around, over and
through—until there’s nothing left. Since losing my ability to walk six years ago, I’ve
relearned life. I don’t need sympathy. I don’t want charity. And I don’t do
love.
It’s better this way, saves my disappointments for me, and me alone, and it saves my strength for everything
I want.
But Cass Owens is about to wreck everything. She’s about to steal all of my strength away from me,
because she needs it more. She’s about to break all of my rules, and break down all
of my walls.
She’s about to own me…completely.
And I’m about to let her.
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After
Excerpt
I thought I felt foolish about being younger. But that was
before I made a floor display of every cliché low-self-esteem brochure printed in
the state of Oklahoma. Naturally, the most embarrassing one is in Ty’s
hands right now.
“How to Love Yourself So Others Will Too,” Ty reads, flipping the
book in his hands and skimming his eyes over the description on the back. I
take this opportunity to scoop everything else up in my arms and sit on the floor
with my legs crossed, quickly stuffing things back in my bag. “Oh, this
is good. Wait, listen to this
one…”
He starts to quote a few of the passages, mocking the
stereotypical affirmations and examples in the book. I know they’re stupid—and hearing
them now, I’m not sure why I picked the book up. But reading it made me feel
good an hour or two ago. “Wow, what class is making you read this shit?” he
asks, finally putting the book down. His laughter cuts short when he sees me, my
eyes buried in my
lap.
“It’s not for a class,” I say, looking up long enough to get the
book from him. “My stuff’s in the dryer. Just…just knock on my door when it
buzzes done.” I leave quickly, clutching my things close to my chest and feeling
ridiculous.
I don’t bother to zip my bag up again, instead carrying it all
into my room and letting everything spill out into a pile on my bed. I don’t
know what made me check all of these things out. It all started with the book
Ty was reading, actually. My hands gravitated to it while I was looking
through some of the health and wellness books. At first, my attraction was the
same as Ty’s—I found the book amusing. But some of those cheesy sayings actually
rang true, especially the ones about feeling inferior to siblings and
how we use self-deprecating humor as a crutch. Next thing I knew…I had two books, four
magazines, and a dozen brochures.
Ty’s knock on my door is soft. I hadn’t shut it all the way when
I walked in, so he takes advantage and comes all the way into my room with
little warning.
“Dry already?” I ask, doing my best to pretend none of that
happened. I pick the pillow up from my lap, laying it over the embarrassing
evidence.
“No,” Ty responds, moving closer until he’s at the foot of my bed.
Without pause, he slides from his chair to the bed until he’s sitting next to
me. He picks up the pillow, and my stomach sinks. His smile is soft as he scoops
everything into my bag, and slides it all to the floor, closing the distance
between us even more until his hand is suddenly cradling my
cheek.
“Just so we’re clear here, I mean this,” he says, pressing his
lips softly against mine as his other hand moves to my chin, tilting my mouth
toward him. I’ve been kissed by some pretty convincing boys in my life, each one
wanting to make me believe something by the way their mouth worked against
mine, the way their tongues coaxed their way inside. This one kiss from Ty was
like removing a blindfold.
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Fun Facts about You and Everything After:
a. Sally’s (which
is also in This Is Falling) was inspired by Eskimo Joe’s in Stillwater,
Oklahoma.
b. Tyson Preeter is
my favorite character I’ve written…so far.
c. I made the
Preeter boys from Louisiana because I have baseball-playing family that lives
there (one’s a former LSU’er with two World Series rings)
d. I actually saw
the joke shirt Ty gets in the mail on someone at the mall. It made me laugh out
loud when I saw it, and I wrote it down in my notebook to use in a book some
day. Voila – that day has come.
e. The Preeter
brothers are loosely inspired by a pair of ASU brothers – one a former Sun
Devil wide receiver.
f. I considered
making Cass a cheerleader or gymnist, but I know zilch about cheer, and
tumbling frightens me. I know soccer, I just suck at it, but I could work with
that.
g. I read a feature
story in a magazine about a girl who returned to her high school volleyball
team after a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, helping her team win state, and
it inspired Cass’s background. A friend of mine who was diagnosed with it as a
teenager served as my guide in writing and kept me very honest.
Book
one, This is Falling
Giveaway
About Ginger Scott
Ginger Scott is a writer and journalist from Peoria, Arizona. She
is the author of four young and new adult romances, with her fifth title,
This Is Falling, set to release in late August 2014.
Scott has been writing and editing for newspapers, magazines and blogs for more than 15 years. She
has told the stories of Olympians, politicians, actors, scientists,
cowboys, criminals and towns. For more on her and her work, visit her website
at http://www.littlemisswrite.com.
When she's not writing, the odds are high that she's somewhere near a baseball diamond, either watching her
son field pop flies like Bryce Harper or cheering on her favorite baseball
team, the Arizona Diamondbacks. Scott is married to her college sweetheart
whom she met at ASU (fork 'em,
Devils).
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