Title: Finding Focus
Author: Jiffy Kate
Release Date: Nov 30, 2015
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Sheridan “Dani” Reed is a recently unemployed photojournalist
living in New York City. Her boyfriend is vacationing without her, and her best friend has abandoned her
for a job in the south.
Is a quarter-life crisis a thing?
After accepting a freelance job in Louisiana for Southern Style magazine, she feels
the bleakness of her life back in New York fading in the rearview mirror. Getting back to her southern
roots seems to be just what she needs to lift her spirits and spark her creativity. During her stay, she
meets playboy Micah Landry and his colorful family. She knows she should avoid him and keep things
professional, but his southern charms are hard to resist.
Through the lens of her camera, she finds the beauty and soul of the Landry
Plantation, but it’s her beauty and soul that capture Micah’s
attention.
When an unexpected phone call takes her back to New York, she’s forced
to face the life she was trying to escape head on.
Will her trip and the Landrys only become fond memories, or will Dani find her
way back to them and her beloved south?
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Micah and I climb into his truck and he starts it up, but we just sit in the parking
lot for a few moments in comfortable silence.
“You’re not what I was expecting,
Chuck.”
I narrow my eyes at him. “Oh yeah? What were you
expecting?”
He shrugs before giving me a shy smile. “I don’t know . . . someone
snooty and prissy, I guess. But that’s not you. At least, not that I can
see.”
“You think you’ve got me all figured
out?”
Barking out a laugh, he replies, “No, not at all. Just makin’ an
observation.”
His eyes are a little too focused on me and the air inside his truck is a little too
thin. I clear my throat and face forward, causing Micah to take the hint to put the truck in
drive.
Once my heart has slowed to a normal rate, I decide to try to have a normal
conversation while learning more about Micah at the same time. “So, what was it like growing up
on a plantation?”
“It’s just a house,
Dani.”
“A very large house,” I
counter.
“True, and it’s special to me because it’s been in my family
for so long, but I wasn’t raised with a silver spoon in my mouth, if that’s what
you’re wonderin’. The Landrys are no better than anyone else. Believe me, my mama
would’ve tanned our hides if we ever tried to act like we
were—”
“Snooty or prissy?”
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First things first, we're the realest.
Oh, wait. Iggy already used that one.
Well, let's see...
What some people don't know is there are two of us and we're both
Jennifers. How lucky are we? The most common name from the 70's! Our parents were so
original.
We found each other through Twilight and tornadoes. Sounds like a crazy
combination, but it's true. We were roaming around in the same groups of people on social media,
but we hadn't really became friends. But that all changed on a stormy Oklahoma night when we
noticed that we were both experiencing the same tornado warnings.
We met a week later for lunch and the rest is history. We already knew we had
the whole Twilight thing in common, but what we learned that day is that we both loved music and
traveling. Together, we've been everywhere. Well, not everywhere, but a lot of places...Seattle,
Forks, LA, New York, Chicago, Philly, Nashville, and New Orleans, where our hearts
reside.
About six months after we met, we also realized we both had a passion for
writing. When we started outlining our first story, we thought that would be it. One story and done. So,
we dumped everything we loved into those 100,000 words. If you're familiar with the term
"crack fic", that was kind of what it was for us. We had fun with it and let ourselves live on
those pages.
But it was like Lays potato chips.
We couldn't write just one.
So, twenty stories later, here we are--publishing our first novel. And how crazy is it
that we went back to the beginning.
Finding Focus was originally a Twilight Fan Fic titled Southern
Comfort
.
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