Forbidden Boy
Chapter One
Julianne dragged her feet across the ground, the soles of her worn-in red ballet flats leaving sand trails on the cement behind her. Twenty yards ahead on the beach, Chloe was waiting for her, tapping one platform espadrille impatiently. "Jules, move it or lose it! This party waits for no man!" Julianne squinted to see her sister through the ten o'clock moonlight and shivered as a burst of early-June breeze broke through the warm night and crept up her spine. Around her, the sky was blue-black, and the only things she could make out clearly were the reflection of the water and the shape of the dunes.
Although Chloe's tone was light, Julianne rolled her eyes in her sister's direction and let out an exasperated sigh. She hunched her shoulders, shoved her hands deep into the pockets of her faded Citizens, and grumbled. "It doesn't matter. I'm sure by the time we get there someone will have snatched up the beach rights and we'll have to head back home anyway. I mean, it isn't about who's been here the longest. If some arrogant jerks with buckets of money decide to, oh, I don't know, build a massive addition ... read full excerpt from: Forbidden Boy ebook