Release Blitz: The Moment of Letting Go by J. A. Redmerski #Excerpt + #Giveaway

Then he gets up and grabs my hands from the tops of my bare knees, pulling me to my feet.“We’re going swimming,” he says. “And we’ll talk more about this later…like on the day your vacation is over and you’re standing at the gate in the airport about to kiss me goodbye.”“Wow, you really think highly of yourself, don’t you?” I can’t keep the laughter from my voice.“Damn straight!” he says and pulls me along beside him. “Before these two weeks are over, I can guarantee you three things.” He holds up three fingers as we continue onward toward the water. “One”—he holds up one finger—“you’ll never want to go back to San Diego once Hawaii is done with you.” He holds up two fingers. “Two—that photography love of yours will start to take the place of everything else in your life. And three”—he wiggles three fingers and we stop on the beach where the water can pool around our feet—“you’ll kiss me at least once before you go home.”I blush hard and it feels like my eyes are bugging out of my head. “I might peck you on the cheek or something, but—”“No,” he says, smiling and quite serious, “it’ll be a full-on, tongue-dancing kind of kiss.”I smack him playfully on the arm—something is fluttering around inside my belly.

“Geez!”

Luke grabs my hand and pulls me out to the water with him, where we swim and hang out on the cliffs until late in the afternoon. People come and go throughout the hours, sometimes leaving us with Alicia, Braedon, and a few of their close friends to have the area to ourselves for a while before more people show up in intervals.

“Backflip!” someone says just before Luke jumps into the water for probably the twentieth time.

And every time he does it, it ties my stomach up in knots. But there’s something about him that I can’t quite figure out when I watch him leap off the edge of that cliff; it’s not overconfidence or showing off or recklessness, but something deeper, more profound. Maybe it’s a sense of freedom, or a natural high that consumes him while he’s in the air, as if he had been born with a pair of wings that only he can see. But the more time I spend with him, the more intrigued I become. Sure, he’s gorgeous and funny and polite and all the kinds of things—so far—that would make my mom love him to death. But what intrigues and excites me more is how he kind of makes me want to jump off that stupid cliff regardless of how scared I am of it.

This is a sweet, New Adult romance about forgiveness and letting go of your fears. Twenty-Two-year-old, Sienna Murphy, is an event coordinator, who is in Hawaii planning a wedding, when a chance encounter with the local daredevil, 24 year-old Luke Everett, turns into a turns into a two-week, life-changing vacation.

When she meets Luke she instantly feels a connection. Going against her usual “type A” personality, she throws caution to the wind, and agrees to stay in Hawaii after her work is done and spend time with Luke. He pushes her to face her fears of flying, of letting loose, and of living life. He makes her question if life is worth living, if you aren’t living it?

“Fear is just the part of you that wants you to fail. It’s all of your regrets and your pain and your failures wrapped up into one emotion. It’s a weakness, nothing more.” “We’re all stronger than our weaknesses,” “Sometimes we just need someone else to help us find that strength.”

And for Luke, Sienna was the angel that saved him from the guilt of his past and helps him to move on with his future.

New Adult lovers will most likely enjoy this read, as it deals with insecurities and issues of that age.