Title: Always Second Best
Series: Broken Dreams, #2
Author: Elodie Nowodazkij
Genres: Romance, Young Adult
Genres: Romance, Young Adult
Publication date: October 13th 2015
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Sometimes being first isn’t what you expected.
Seventeen-year-old ballerina Emilia Moretti is tired of always being second best. And she’s going to prove the world she deserves to be first. In her upcoming School of the Performing Arts showcase. In the eyes of her birth parents. And in the heart of the guy she loves. She spends hours rehearsing, hours dreaming about becoming number one, hours imagining how her entire life is about to change. But when nothing goes the way she planned, she’ll need to realize what it really means to be first.
Eighteen-year-old Nick Grawski doesn’t want to follow Daddy Dearest’s rules any longer. He’s going to prove he’s meant to be a dancer—not a lawyer—and he is not going to stay away from Em just because his father demands it. He needs to show Em that—this time around—he’s there to stay and that he won’t break her heart again. Even when her world goes down to shit, even when he finds out his dad may have been trying to protect him all along, even if being there for one another is harder than falling in love.
ALWAYS SECOND BEST is a novel of hope and heartbreak and broken dreams. It’s a novel about falling in love and discovering that being first isn’t always what matters.
PURCHASE LINKS
EXCERPT
I FORGET
MYSELF in his kiss, in the way his arms tighten around me, in the way my entire
body wants to get even closer.
One of his
hands cups the side of my face. I jump so my legs are around his waist. He’s
holding me and I deepen our kiss. I don’t ever want to stop.
“Em.” His
voice is hoarse and he walks forward, my legs still around him, until my back
hits the mirror.
His lips
trail down my face, to my collarbone, and his hands detangle mine from his neck
to bring them over my head.
I can feel
him, all of him. “I’ve missed you,” he says.
And I’ve
missed him too. So much. My brain’s screaming for me to stop, my heart’s
hesitating. What am I doing? What are we doing? Setting ourselves up for
failure again.
“I have to
go.” My voice shakes. “I have to go,” I repeat and Nick slowly puts me back on
my feet before stepping away.
“What are
you talking about?” He’s almost out of breath.
“I have to
go.” I can’t look at him, or I’ll never leave.
I rush
out. My feelings and my heart trailing behind.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Elodie Nowodazkij was raised in a tiny village in France, where she could always be found a book in hand. At nineteen, she moved to the US, where she learned she'd never lose her French accent. Now she lives in Maryland with her husband, their dog and their cat.
She's also a serial smiley user.
You can also join my Facebook fan group (http://on.fb.me/1J2SYl1) for early excerpts of my upcoming books, giveaways or to just hang out with me :)
Elodie Nowodazkij was raised in a tiny village in France, where she could always be found a book in hand. At nineteen, she moved to the US, where she learned she'd never lose her French accent. Now she lives in Maryland with her husband, their dog and their cat.
She's also a serial smiley user.
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TEASERS
FIVE THINGS ABOUT ALWAYS SECOND BEST
1. The part about a “Basil-only” menu comes from my husband, who makes the best steaks with homemade pesto.
2. The name “Svetlana” is the name of my husband’s aunt.
3. One of my sisters’ name is Emilie. Hmmm, wonder where I got the idea for Emilia’s name.
4. I started writing this book almost a year ago—got almost halfway through but it didn’t work, then tried again in May but it still didn’t work. I wrote A Summer Like No Other which is the summer where Em & Nick get together and then wrote Always Second Best in a bit over a month.
5. There’s one scene in the book where Nick & Em are maybe or maybe not making out against the mirror of the dance studio. This scene exists thanks to Riley Edgewood.
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