Wait With Me (Wait With Me, #1)(72)
Becoming Us: Finley’s Story Part 1 (prequel) A Broken Us: Finley’s Story Part 2 (standalone) London Bound: Leslie’s Story (standalone) Not The One: Reyna’s Story (standalone) That One Moment: Hayden & Vi’s Story (standalone) One Wild Night: Julie’s Story…coming soon
The Harris Brothers Series:
A spin-off sports romance series featuring the British, football-playing Harris Brothers!
Challenge: Camden’s Story (standalone) Endurance: Tanner’s Story (standalone) Keeper: Booker’s Story (standalone) Surrender & Dominate: The Gareth Harris Duet…Coming Soon
Wait With Me (standalone)
Pointe of Breaking: A College Dance Standalone by Amy Daws & Sarah J. Pepper
Chasing Hope: A Mother’s True Story of Loss, Heartbreak, and the Miracle of Hope
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I feel like the acknowledgements for this book are uniquely important because so many people know that this story was very loosely based on my real life experiences and I want to make some things clear while I have you here!
First of all, yes, I snuck into a tire shop waiting room. Yes, I took countless people’s cars in, and yes, my author friend really did have a pizza delivered there, and I even got a fake invoice in the mail from my friends. It was all mortifying.
But basically, the love story that happened between Miles and Kate is one-hundred-percent fiction. I’m a happily married woman and my hubby and I have a child that is our whole world. There was never any flirting I did with a tire shop employee. Or any hot mechanic who noticed me sneaking in. Frankly, the guys at my local tire shop remind me of a bunch of really sweet uncles.
Also, my family is incredibly supportive of my writing. My mom reads and loves every one of my books and my dad gets copies for his female coworkers with every release. Even my grandma is awesome! She enjoys Amish romance and is the epitome of a wholesome farm wife, but that wonderful woman buys two copies of every single book I write: one for her bookshelf at home and one for her local library with a population of 800 people. My family is amazing and I’ve never once felt shamed the way Kate did in this story. In fact, the pride my family has for how hard I work is beyond measure. They are the best.
I had a blast writing about this unusual start to a love story. I’m so grateful to everyone I’ve met through this unorthodox process. The guys at the tire shop have been especially welcoming of me and I’m so excited they have given me the green light to write there whenever I like. The town I live in is bigger than Boulder and it’s pretty cool to see adorable, small town charm in a bigger city.
But ultimately, I want to thank everyone who followed along with me on social media and had a laugh with me through my tire shop antics. This story never would have been imagined if you guys weren’t all so fun and engaging with me on social media. And I had a blast writing this book.
I’m a firm believer in the fact that your best connections with people happen when you’re being real. And the truth is, there’s a lot to be sad about these days. There are horrible things happening in the world all the time.
But sometimes, all it takes is a fun book and a cup of really good complimentary coffee to make a dark day just a tiny bit brighter.
Amy Daws is an Amazon Top 100 bestselling author of the Harris Brothers Series and is most known for her punny, footy-playing, British playboys. The Harris Brothers and her London Lovers Series fuel her passion for all things London. When Amy’s not writing, she’s watching Gilmore Girls or singing karaoke in the living room with her daughter while Daddy awkward-smiles from a distance.
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“COME ON, CAMDEN,” TANNER GROANS, strolling into the kitchen and eyeing me at the table. He instantly deflates when he sees I’m nose deep in my book. “We’ve only got an hour before we need to leave. You need to get your ritual over with before it gets too late. Dad crawls the walls when we’re late for warm-ups.”
My latest James Patterson, Cross Series novel thumps closed as I gaze back at my twin brother’s face. The dreary London daylight sheds little light on what emotion he’s portraying beneath all those unkempt facial pubes. I shake my head. “Don’t even consider judging my ritual. You’re the one looking like a blonde Hagrid.”
He smiles and strokes his beard. “Aww, that’s the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me, Cam. Do you really think so? Maybe if I go for a full Dumbledore beard, our team will be promoted to Premiership.”
I roll my matching blue eyes in response to the eagerness in his. Tanner and I aren’t identical twins, but back when he had trimmed blonde hair instead of the shaggy mess he sports now, we even fooled each other. I once watched a taped match for forty minutes before I realised I was watching Tanner kick a football down the pitch instead of myself. Although he has a lot more ink than me nowadays.
Our other two brothers, Gareth and Booker, don’t look like us at all. Gareth is the oldest and Booker is the youngest. They take after our dad with their darker hair, but since we all grew up playing football, our builds are quite similar. Years of fieldwork policed by our dad and an intense weight-lifting regime made us the largest footballers on most pitches.