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Title: In Tune Out of Sync
Author: Kate Forest
Genre: Contemporary Romance
About In Tune Out of Sync:
No one wants to play second fiddle in love. Veronica “Ronnie” Lukas has one dream: playing violin with the New York Philharmonic. She’ll do whatever she can to hide her dyslexia and inability to read music, because nothing, not even sexy and talented Scott Grossman, will stand in her way. Since he first tucked a violin under his chin, Scott’s tics caused by Tourette’s Syndrome quieted. His talent has thrust him into the harsh spotlight, becoming a reluctant poster child for living with Tourette’s.When Scott wins first chair of a small regional orchestra, Ronnie begrudgingly accepts second. She wants to hate the humble man who is disarmingly open about his disability. Instead, she falls for his heavenly music—and toe-curling kisses. Scott is smitten with the brilliant woman who doesn’t treat him with kid gloves, although he wishes she didn’t hide her dyslexia from the world. There’s only one spot open in the New York Philharmonic, but Scott and Ronnie find it’s not the competition but their differing views that come to a crescendo—secrets versus truth, spotlight versus shadows. Finding their rhythm is tough when they’re each marching to their own beat.
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Exclusive Excerpt:
The haunting and beautiful music wafts to my ear, sending my daydreams to a wildflower meadow, warmed by a spring sun. And then my mind drifts to ways to murder the violinist playing. Because whoever is performing Bach’s Sonata Number 3 in C Major from behind the closed door plays the complicated piece better than I can.
And my
audition is next.
I pull
out the repertoire list sent by the Delaware Symphony Orchestra three weeks
ago. The first round gave no options, and yesterday I played the Scherzo from Schumann’s
Second perfectly, and wasn’t too surprised when they asked me to come back for
round two today.
I scan
the list as quickly as I can, running my finger from side to side to make sure
I’m tracking the correct lines. Scrambling to choose a new piece from the
options they provide is not how I wanted to prepare for this moment. No way am
I going to follow that version with the same piece. Because even though I rule
that sonata, the harmonics emanating from the room came straight from heaven.
Crap,
it’s good.
I decide
page one of Strauss’s Don Juan will
do. I know it by heart. I have to know all the music by heart so the notes on
the page don’t swim before my eyes and muddle my brain circuitry. Plus, it will
showcase my ability to play first violin.
They’re
looking for two musicians, and I’m aiming high. Like always.
“Your
turn should be in just a few moments.” The personnel manager smiles in what is
probably meant as a warm, friendly gesture. Except her lips are stretched
across her teeth like she’s shooting down a roller coaster instead of sitting
at a folding table. She holds out a check. “Here’s your deposit back,
Veronica.”
“Thanks.
Call me Ronnie.” I turn to take the money I sent in to reserve my spot in the
audition. They keep all the money of the no-shows, the merely curious, and the
too-chicken-to-try.
I open
my bag to put the Bach and my best chance away. Pages of music spill out to the
floor as the auditioning musician finishes the last few measures of the happy
and deceptively simple-sounding music. I crouch and gather them together. The
last thing I need anyone to see is my color-coded sheet music that keeps my
dyslexic brain from skipping a line, or more often, repeating a line a dozen
times before it occurs to me that that I might have played that bit before.
I’ve
practiced Don Juan often enough and
it will be a good bold contrast to the piece just played. It doesn’t matter if
Marcia wasted my time. I’ve got this.
I need
this spot. The Delaware Symphony Orchestra might not be the New York
Philharmonic, but it will be a huge step toward that goal. I need more
performance experience, and venues bigger than college campuses and community
events. If I’m ever going to earn a living playing the violin, this is one of
my best chances. One of my best chances to prove my parents wrong. Getting this
spot would be a great accomplishment, but watching my parents’ faces as I prove
that I didn’t need to finish my certificate in computer science to earn a
living would be almost as good.
And the
jerk who played Bach better than I could isn’t going to swipe this chance away.
I’ll salvage this. Pressure only makes me perform better.
About Kate Forest:
Author Kate Forest has worked in a psychiatric hospital, as a dating coach, and spent a disastrous summer selling above-ground swimming pools. But it was her over twenty-year career as a social worker that compelled her to write love stories with characters you don't typically get to read about. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband, two kids, and a fierce corgi.
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