Book Title: Playing Patience
Author: Tabatha Vargo
Release Date: April 26th 2013
Genre: New Adult/Romance/Contemporary
Presented by: As You Wish...
Sometimes all you need is Patience.
Life’s been hard for Zeke. Being a punching
bag for his alcoholic father has turned him into stone. Not even the dodgy
trailer park he lives in can scare him. Fighting is his release and sex, drugs,
and his guitar bring him peace, but deep down Zeke isn’t quite as hard as he
makes himself out to be. When he meets Patience, she finds all his broken
pieces and puts him back together, but she’s a ray of light in his shadowed
life and the last thing he wants to do is bring her into his dark world.
Playing careless is easy, playing the bad guy can be fun, but playing Patience
is impossible, especially when she can see right through him.
Zeke isn’t the only one who’s broken, and for
the first time, in a long time, Patience feels alive. Her black and white world
gets a shot of color when she meets Zeke. He’s unlike anyone she’s ever met
with his tattoos, piercings, and blunt honesty. She wants nothing more than to
let go and ride the wild side with him, but some wounds never heal and the
broken pieces of Patience aren’t so easy to find.
***Warning: this book contains graphic language, sex,
and violence. Mature readers only. Not intended for young adult readers.***
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Excerpt:
Her cheeks turned
pink and a frown pulled on her pouty mouth.
“I shouldn’t have
come here. I just wanted to say thanks.” Her eyes cut me before she turned and
walked away.
She made it to the
hood of the waiting car, before my conscious peeked out and slapped the shit
out of me.
“Hey,” I called out
to her.
She stopped and faced
me again. Instantly, I felt like the biggest dick in the south when I saw her
eyes brimming with tears. Someone so sensitive didn’t stand a chance around a
person like me, but knowing that I’d probably never see her face again made it
okay for me to kind of apologize for being myself for some reason.
“I’m rude, but you’ve
seen first hand what happens to shiny things in a chop shop,” I gestured to the
world around us. “Your best bet is to stay away from these parts, princess. A
pretty thing like you wouldn’t last two hours out here. How long were you at
The Pit last night before you were dying on the bathroom floor? An hour, tops?
Think of my rudeness as a blessing.” I adjusted my guitar case in my sweaty
palm and turned toward my trailer door.
I looked back to get
one final glimpse of her. The contrast between her and the trailer park around
her was alarming, although, with her fair skin, white hair, and pale, blue
eyes, I’m sure she stuck out just about anywhere she went. She was unique, a single
snowflake with her own icy patterns, and if she stayed in my hell any longer
she’d melt.
“Have a nice trip
back to Wonderland, Snowflake,” I said, as I opened my the door,
“My name is
Patience,” she snapped.
Patience…it was as
unique as its owner. I liked it, although, I’d never admit that out loud.
Instead, I shook my head and laughed like she had told me a joke, walked
inside, and shut her out.
Author Bio:
Tabatha's been writing since she could pick up
a pencil. Her first publication was a little poem in her elementary school
paper, from that point on she was hooked. When she was a teenager, she traded
in her girly magazines for personalized writing notebooks.
At nineteen, she met her own personal prince
charming and writing took a back burner for a while. She's now married to that
prince and the mother of a beautiful seven-year-old princess/rock star. Once
her daughter was born, writing came back into her life, and she finished her
very first novel, Wicked Fate, in May of 2009.
She's now pursuing her English degree and she
hopes to one day teach while continuing to write.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Playing Patience
by Tabatha Vargo
Giveaway ends June 01, 2013.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
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