Title: Bittersweet
Series: Love Edy # 2
Author: Shewanda Pugh
Target Audience: Young Adult , Romance
Formats: E-book and Paperback
Publisher: Razor’s Edge
Cover by: Regina Wamba of Mae I Design
Date Published: 9 December 2014
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In the aftermath of one tragic and
uncertain night, Edy and Hassan shut out the chaos with a kiss. But when
Hassan's traditionalist mother sees that kiss … well, a nightmare of a
different sort begins. After all, he still has an arranged marriage on the
horizon.
Love attacks the glue of their two
bonded families; while the slow tug of success pulls Edy and Hassan in opposite
directions. After denying their feelings for so long, they now have each other,
but are forced to ask themselves if being together is worth it.
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Hassan examined the gash on his right
hand with mild interest, curious as to what point he’d earned it. His hand
shook; his whole arm shook, and the tightness in his chest worked like a vice.
He believed he could whittle away the panic. He believed he could wish away the
night. He closed his eyes, opened them, and found all exactly as it had been.
He swatted at the EMT impatiently as his
legs dangled from the rear of the ambulance. “That’s enough,” Hassan said. “I’m
good.”
The man frowned down at his work. He’d
cleaned the wound, applied an ointment, and looked at a roll of gauze
longingly. “Really, you should let me—”
“I said ‘no.’” Hassan snatched his arm
free and stood.
They’d rolled Wyatt away on a gurney.
When that happened, the wheel of the stretcher had bumped on the door frame’s
ledge, causing his arm to swing out from the bed. Long, white, limp—that was
Hassan’s last image of him. He thought of it now as he stared at the Green’s
front entrance. A uniformed officer banged at the door. Another stood at his
side. The wind howled in response.
He couldn’t watch that. He couldn’t
stand this. Swarming, aimless flashing lights, the methodical sectioning and
combing of here and there, and Wyatt’s swinging arm, slipped out to greet him.
He’s dead. No one loses that much blood
and lives.
Hassan’s thoughts turned to Edy, Edy
whose friend had been shot. Quick steps brought him to her, in the cold, in the
dark, in the madness they’d rushed home. Get to her was his only command.
She stood underneath a winter-stripped
oak wrapped in a fleece Patriots blanket. Seeing her reminded him of his own
bare arms and of how cold he should have been.
He slid in with her, wrapped her in the
circle of his arms so tight, and exhaled a puff of exhaustion. Better, he
thought. Best. Because he couldn’t think just now. He could only feel and
breathe in drafts, so wrecked was he from the senselessness of it all. Some
part of him, some inner part, fractured and burned, fluttering off in winter
winds ashen piece by ashen piece.
“Hassan,” Edy said. “I—I’m freaking out.
I’m going to lose it completely.” Her eyes swept the lawn without seeing,
watering to overflow, sliding into panic.
“Edy,” he said, but she didn’t hear.
“Edy,” he repeated, but she still didn’t
hear. She gripped the fabric of his shirt at the waist, fisting it with a hand
and twisting. He pulled her in so they were forehead to forehead and trembling.
She would keep it together or he would
unravel right with her.
Title: Love Edy
Series: Love Edy # 1
Author: Shewanda Pugh
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When Edy Phelps falls hard for her best
friend, she knows nothing can come from it. Forget actual chemistry, or the
fact that she cherishes his mother more than her own; centuries of tradition
say that Hassan will grow up, marry the girl his parents pick, and forget his
best friend: the dancer with the bursting smile. Except he can't. In a world
erupting with possibilities for the boy with a body of steel and dreams of the
NFL, everything seems promised while nothing at all is; when he's denied the
girl he wants most.
Two hearts. Two families devoted through
generations of friendship. Could Edy and Hassan really risk all that? And yet
... how could they not?
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