Title: Underneath the Sycamore Tree
Author: B. Celeste
Genre: Contemporary Stepbrother Romance
Cover Design: Letitia Hasser, RBA Designs
Release Date: November 1, 2019
Blurb
It happened in stages.
My father left.
My twin sister died of an incurable autoimmune disease.
My mother started breaking down.
Then I was diagnosed with the very thing that took my other half from me.
That was when I realized Mamaâs eyes turned gold when she cried.
So I moved in with my father and his new familyânew wife, new son, new stepbrother.
Kaiden Monroe made me feel normal.
Hated. Cared for. Loathed. And ⦠loved.
Somewhere along the way, Iâd found solace in the boy with dark eyes.
But everything happens in stages.
And nothing good ever lasts.
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PROLOGUE
Mamaâs eyes are golden when she cries. Not like mine, which are a murky shade of dirty pool waterânot fully green or brown, but a mixture of the two. Though when I was just shy of ten years old and saying goodbye to my sister, Mama told me that my glassy gaze was speckled with emeralds just like Daddyâs.
But Daddy wasnât at Loâs funeral. Not when the pastor spoke the eulogy to the half-empty church, or when the slow toll of cars paced the streets to the cemetery, or even when they lowered the kid-sized white coffin into the ground. Mama and I watched every step of the way. Her eyes trained on the half of her heart sinking into the dark soil, never to be seen again, while mine stared off into the distance waiting for Daddyâs familiar face to appear.
Looking back now, Lo had suspected the end of our parentâs marriage long before Daddy packed his things and left. She always knew itâd end that way.
I wondered what else she knew.
Mama wipes a stray tear from her eye, hoping I wonât notice how they glisten in the fluorescent lighting of the drab white room. I want to tell her Iâm all right, that everything will be fine. But the weak attempts of comfort would roll off her tense shoulders in disbelief.
When Lo was diagnosed with lupus it was too late to save her. The disease had eaten away at every piece of herâbody, skin, and organs. Nobody knew what would happen if itâd gone untreated for too long. No matter how hard Mama tried controlling the disease, it couldnât be fought.
Logan died in her sleep.
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Author Bio
B. Celesteâs obsession with all things forbidden and taboo enabled her to pave a path into a new world of raw, real, emotional romance.
Her debut novel is The Truth about Heartbreak.
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