Book
Title: Hugged by an Angel
Author:
Roberta Capizzi
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Release
Date: July 22, 2013
Hosted
by: Book Enthusiast Promotions
How can you ever love again when tragedy has crushed your
heart?
Kathleen used to love life. She had plans, dreams, and faith
in life; but that was before the accident that took it all away from her in an
instant. Now that her beloved brother is dead and she’s confined to a
wheelchair, her future is but a dark cloud hovering above her head. How can she
ever find the will to move on and keep living without him? Even the cares of
the happy-go-lucky American physiotherapist who’s helping her with her rehab
therapies are all in vain. Life seems to have lost its meaning, until one night
she receives an unexpected celestial visit…
Colin has been working as a physiotherapist in Dublin for
almost five years, but he’s never bonded so much with a patient like he is
bonding with Kathleen; there’s something about those sad blue eyes that makes
him want to help her, to take away the pain that reminds him so much of his
own. Having lost both his parents in a plane crash when he was only sixteen,
Colin knows how it feels to have someone you love taken so abruptly away from
you, and he makes it his mission to help Kathleen find her faith in life again.
But something changes along the way…
Sometimes love can work miracles. If you believe.
Excerpt:
“Hey.”
I turned when I heard her voice and saw her in the
wheelchair, her braided hair over her shoulder. She looked so beautiful I
wanted to reach out my hand and stroke her sleepy face. I wanted it so much I
had to break eye contact for a minute before I lost control and made a fool of
myself.
“Oh, hi. I’m sorry, did I wake you?” I asked as
nonchalantly as I could, although my heart was beating fast in my chest.
She smiled and shook her head, staring at my hand.
“I didn’t know you smoked.”
“I don’t,” I replied instinctively. Her eyes lit up
with amusement and I realized how stupid I must have sounded.
“That looks pretty much like a cigarette to me,” she
said, pointing. I bent my head and smiled.
“No, what I meant to say was I’m not a smoker.” I
looked at the cigarette in my hand, and suddenly the words were released
without asking for permission. “I used to smoke when I was in one of my dark
moments, but I don’t anymore.”
What the hell was wrong with me? Why did I always end
up opening myself up with her as if she could understand what I’d been through?
Why couldn’t I simply lie my way out of her question, the way I’d always done
with everyone?
“Are you now? In a dark moment, I mean?” She looked up
at me and her huge blue eyes widened in concern. Why did she have to be so
sweet and so damn beautiful? It made lying so much harder and I couldn’t afford
to let her get close to me, to break through the wall around my heart any more
than she already had.
“Well, you almost—we almost died in a fire. I
have every right to be a little shaken, don’t you think?”
She chuckled, and as I looked at her I realized I didn’t
need that cigarette anymore. I stubbed it out in the plastic ashtray on the
small iron table in the corner of the balcony.
All I really needed was to see that beautiful smile of
hers. The rest didn’t matter.
“Good boy,” she said, nodding approvingly. “You’ll
feel much better now.”
I couldn’t help but smile. She was tearing down the
wall brick by brick, and I felt a fire in my heart just looking into her eyes.
I needed to break the spell, before it was too late.
“Let’s get back inside,” I said, approaching her and
instinctively pushing her wheelchair. “I promised to take care of you, and I
won’t be keeping my word if you get sick.”
“I’m a big girl,” she said in a mocking tone. “I can
take care of myself.”
“Of course,” I replied, mimicking her tone and playing
her game. “I tend to forget that, Your Majesty!”
“Colin! Don’t start again!” she screamed, without
hiding her exasperation, and I laughed.
Meet the Author
An avid reader since her
childhood years and being an only
child, Roberta always enjoyed the company of
her fictional friends from the children’s books she loved reading, while she
dreamed of writing her own stories one day.
It was when she discovered
novels by authors Rosamunde Pilcher and Maeve Binchy in her teenage years that
she realized it was time she put down in words the stories she had kept well
hidden in her mind until then.
What started as a hobby, soon
turned into a real passion and a way of life, until she could no longer keep
the stories to herself, and decided to get over her fears and share them with
the world.
Roberta lives in Italy, but her
dream is to move out of her country and live either in a thatched cottage in
the Irish countryside or in a country house with a swing on the back porch,
somewhere in the United States, where she would love to spend her days writing
novels as a full-time job, and maybe one day even get as far as writing a
screenplay for a movie.
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