Twinsie Talk Book Reviews: **FANTASTIC NEW AUTHOR ALERT**

Ok so all of you know we love our authors and we especially love the indie author. We would like to introduce you to an amazing new author who will be releasing her first book in April of this year!!! Twinsie Angie J has become one of her biggest cheerleaders and we want you to as well...remember you heard her name here first!!!!

So please give a warm welcome to Melanie Codina!!!

Her book is entitled Love Realized.
It is the first in her The Real Love Series.

Just a hint of what Love Realized is all about:

For Jake, it’s always been Gillian. It’s been her since that day she unknowingly stole a piece of his heart...when he watched her fall for one of his best friends. Resolved to the fate that she couldn't be his, he locked up the deeper emotions he felt for her and loved her as a friend.

As friends, they went through it all together. Marriages, births, divorces and even death. But when a shameful secret Gillian has kept from her friends is revealed, Jake realizes she needs him more than ever. He knew what it was like to go through heartbreak and he wasn't about to stand back and watch her endure it alone.

He also knew she would turn to him for support. What he wasn't prepared for was the return of the emotions he had long ago locked away. Could he control those emotions again and did he even want to? Could he make her realize his love for her was real, or would she slip through his fingers again?

Teaser for you (The naughty and good stuff)
This is when *blushes* ...well you read it and you will understand...*wink wink*

“Can I have you Gillian?” Jake whispered as he gently placed a kiss on her neck, just below her ear. As if her body was answering for her, she tilted her head to side exposing more for him to taste. He groaned in response and moved his hand from the cheek opposite his mouths assault on her neck and slid it into her hair, holding her in that position. She was open, submissive and vulnerable to him. But this was Jake, he would never do anything to hurt her…he never had. Her heart rate increased and her breathing became more rapid as he continued to pepper tiny open mouthed kisses to the side of her neck, using his grip on her hair to gently move her at his will. “Can I have you Gillian?” He repeated, and she realized that she hadn’t actually responded to his request. Her body was screaming hell yes, but she had yet to verbalize it to him. Could she do this? Could she take this step with one of her oldest and best friends?

“I have wanted you for so long Gillian.” He said this as he moved up her neck and gently kissed her jaw line making it almost impossible to form coherent speech, but she had to try. “You have?” She whispered. She could feel his smile against her skin as he continued to feather kisses across her jaw and up her cheek. He then cupped both of his hands around the base of her head to tilt her face in his direction before he answered her. “I have wanted you since the first day of class, second semester of our junior year…” He placed a gentle kiss over her right eyelid. “I have wanted you since that first moment you swung that bat and caught my undivided attention.” She felt another gentle kiss on the tip of her nose. “I have wanted you since that same day when after class you laughed at something I said to you. I have no idea what it was I said because the minute I heard your laugh, it was all I could think about.” Then he placed another butterfly of a kiss over her left eyelid. “I have wanted you since later that day when I pointed you out to my friends. I had told them how great you could swing a bat but what I really should have said was that I had found the girl of my dreams.” She could feel his warm breath feather across her forehead as he placed a lingering kiss there. But as soon as she processed what he had said, she startled a bit and opened her eyes. Pulling her head back slightly so she could see his eyes, but tightening her grip on his waist so that he didn’t think she was pulling away from him.

…The girl of his dreams?? She wanted to question that statement but the look in his eyes said it all. She could see nothing but love and adoration in his eyes. He must have sensed she was questioning his statement so while he continued to hold her face in his hands, his thumbs idly stroking her cheeks, he pushed on. “I have wanted you since we were seventeen years old, and somewhere shortly after that I fell in love with you Gillian. I saw you get in Logan’s car that same day and watched you drive away with him, taking a little piece of my heart with you that you didn’t even know you had.” His eyes looked so sad, almost as if he was remembering the way he felt that day. Her heart clenched at the thought of causing him any pain, even if she had no idea. Breaking eye contact with her, he pulled her close to him once again and placed another lingering kiss to her forehead. “Can I have you Gillian?”