**Cover Reveal & Giveaway ~ Dear Emily ~ Trudy Stiles**

I'm thrilled to be a part of the cover reveal for Trudy Stiles' Dear Emily, the first book in the Forever Family series. I like this cover, with its muted colors and the watermarked letter. And it sounds pretty intense. I have the synopsis, an excerpt, and a giveaway for y'all. 

This reveal is presented by Brandee's Book Endings.

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Dear Emily by Trudy Stiles

Series: Forever Family #1

Release date: Expected December 8, 2013

Genre: New Adult/Romance

Cover designer: Steph’s Cover Design

Editor: Katie Mac

Formatting: Emily Mah Tippetts

Blog Tour Manager: Brandee’s Book Endings 

Book Summary

Two women. Carly & Tabitha. Both have suffered life-altering events that have left them both traumatically damaged.

Carly Sloan’s life was perfect until the night her security and innocence was torn from her. The vast repercussions from that horrific night threaten to destroy her stability and her chances for a happily ever after. Kyle Finnegan comes into Carly’s life at the height of her turmoil. Can he help her find what she desires most?

Tabitha Fletcher, on the other hand, has suffered from a very young age. She has been hiding from her past, which was full of abuse, loss and turmoil. She has been so brutally damaged that she has very little hope of redemption. The revolving door of men only leads her deeper into misery. 

What circumstance brings these two women together unexpectedly and can they help each other heal? And will they each find what they need? 

Redemption.

Love.

Family.

Dear Emily,

How do I start off a letter to a child I have yet to meet?

A child that has always been in our hearts? 

A child that is meant for our family?

Your Daddy and I cannot wait for the moment we are able to hold you in our arms for the first time. To lay our eyes on your perfect face, eyes, toes. To breathe in the essence of a new baby, swirling scents of powder and linen.

We cannot wait to feel your beating heart against our chests and to listen to your slow and steady breaths. 

To hear your soft baby noises. 

To soothe your crying.

We have always dreamed of you, Emily. We’ve dreamed that someday our family would be blessed with a child. 

We are now so close to realizing this dream. Our new family is within reach. 

So very close.

We are now hoping, waiting, praying. 

Love and kisses,

Momma & Daddy

My eyes are glistening with tears as I scrawl my signature at the bottom of the letter, touch my fingers to my lips, press them onto her name and close my journal. I look over to my left where Kyle is softly snoring, sleeping soundly. I mouth the words “I love you” to him, touch his back lightly, put my journal in my night table drawer and turn out the soft light by my bedside. I curl my body into his, tuck my head into his chest and hold on tight.

I love this man with all that I am and I love the father that he is going to be. 

My heart is full of promise and hope.


© Copyright 2013 by Trudy Stiles Unedited and subject to change

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Trudy Stiles is a New Adult author, avid reader, mom to two beautiful children and married to the love of her life. She just wrote her debut novel, "Dear Emily, and cannot wait to share it with everyone.

You'll know that she's writing when you see her plugged into her laptop with her earbuds and she always has a playlist ready for her writing sprints. 

When she's not writing, she's carting her children to their various activities while avoiding any kind of laundry or housework. She also loves to run along the boardwalk of the beautiful New Jersey shore. 

She's always been an avid reader and frequently escapes into the fictional worlds of the many characters that she has come to love. Well now there are some fictional characters in her head dying to get out! 

This first story is called "Dear Emily" and will begin the "Forever Family" series.

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