Carmen DeSousa

If you missed the first few excerpts of DIFFICULT DECISIONS , click here . Don't worry; there's a link, which will bring you right back. This week’s excerpt is from the first chapter:   “I’m sorry,” Lilith started, and to Nicky’s amazement, she actually sounded sincere. “Your father had an accident last night.” She paused allowing the words to sink in it seemed.   Nicky clinched the phone in her hand. “He’s okay, then, right?” “No, dear, he’s not. He hit a tree, Nicky. But according to the emergency-room doctor, he died instantly.” She sucked in a breath. “Thank you for calling, Lilith. I’ll call you later. I have to go.” Nicky dropped her head onto the steering wheel of her car and wept. What difference did it make? Her father and she had barely spoken in the last six years anyway, ever since she moved out of that ridiculous household he called a home. Difficult Decisions will be out in a few months, but if you’d like to read the first...

ENTANGLED DREAMS , my third novel, is releasing this summer. I do not have a cover, but I loved this picture, which I believe epitomizes the first scene. Now, if you’ve read any of my novels, or excerpts, you know I don’t do happy-go-lucky beginnings, and as in any good fairytale, a little rain must fall. Or in the case of my stories, I prefer a monsoon. If you missed the first few excerpts, click here . Don't worry; there's a link which will bring you right back. This week’s excerpt: It sounds like your typical fairytale, but it isn’t. There are no furry creatures to help the princess prepare a gown for the prom, no fairy godmother to waive her magic wand and produce glass slippers. In fact, at age sixteen Alexandra found herself living on her own with no family contact and no prospects of a healthy, normal life. Alexandra had only one advantage, if you could call it that. Alexandra was beautiful. But so far, her beauty had not opened any doors; ac...

Now, if you’ve read any of my novels or excerpts, you know I don’t do happy-go-lucky beginnings; and as in any fairytale, a little rain must fall, or in the case of my stories, I prefer a monsoon. This week’s excerpt: But alas, as in any good fairytale, everything good and wonderful must come to an end. After the tragic accident that snatched her mother away from Alexandra, her father moved them away from the beaches of Destin to another beach in Florida. Cocoa Beach. Cocoa Beach was loud, the water murky, and there were no weekend adventures as there had been in Destin. Her father married her evil stepmother, Lilith, who Alexandra was certain was a witch with her long, black as midnight hair and pale-white skin as if she’d never seen sunlight. Her father had admitted he wasn’t in love with Cruella, as she had come to think of the witchy woman, but that he’d wanted Alexandra to have a mother and siblings. Well, she definitely got that. The k...

It may be a little early, but since I’ve shared all I am willing to part with on She Belongs to Me and Land of the Noonday Sun , I figured I’d start introducing you to, Difficult Decisions , my third novel releasing this summer. So each Sunday, please join me for a six-sentence passage from the prologue, and then I’ll share a few excerpts until it publishes. Excerpt: As a child, Alexandra Nicole was a princess in a fairytale.           Her royal family would spend every Sunday on the pristine beaches of Destin together. Her father, the king, would carry her on his shoulders, pretending to be her noble steed as he pranced around at her behest. He would battle dragons, the vicious Chihuahua that chased them; conquer new worlds, also known as a sand dune further down the beach; and build elaborate castles, well actually, sandcastles.           If her father was the kin...