TOUR WITH EXCERPT : Yearning to Live by Shirley Anne Edwards

This is my stop during the book blitz for Yearning to Live by Shirley Anne Edwards. In Yearning to Live a self-proclaimed ordinarily average girl meets the one larger than life person who will make her yearn for so much more.

This book blitz is organized by Lola’s Blog Tours. The book blitz runs from 24 till 30 July. See the tour schedule here.

Yearning to Live (Finding the Strength #4)
By Shirley Anne Edwards
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Age category: New Adult
Release Date: 24 July 2022

Blurb

Natalie Benton has nursed enough heartbreak in her twenty-one years. But she doesn’t like to complain even though her parents’ marriage might be falling apart, and she’s still mourning her brother, who committed suicide five years ago. On top of that, she was recently ghosted by her lover, an emotionally detached tattoo artist who ran off to California. She’s ready to graduated college in a few months but she’s not sure what her next steps will be. For now, she’ll take each day as it comes, which has become her mantra as an ordinary, average girl in Albee, Pennsylvania where nothing exciting ever happens.

But fate has other plans for Natalie, when a very not ordinary average girl enters her life. It’s the larger-than-life Gem Grove, one of the most popular singers of the past decade. Gem’s been hiding out in Albee while she also tries her best to take each day as it comes, but her addiction to bigger fame and fortune could lead to her downfall. The public may think she’s entitled and spoiled but she’s ready to prove them all wrong. She’s more than just a singer who performs on demand. She wants to create art with her songs and gain the respect she has always wanted.

Natalie and Gem shouldn’t fit together but they do. The ordinary average girl and the larger-than-life diva might be destined for more, but only if they can achieve it together.

Links:
– Goodreads
– Bookbub
– Amazon

Earlier books in the series:

– Rage to Live (Finding the Strength #1)
– Let me Live (Finding the Strength #2)
– Decide to Live (Finding the Strength #3)

About the Author

Shirley Anne Edwards is a Northeast girl who first found her love for books when she read Nancy Drew’s The Secret of the Old Clock Tower at thirteen. Shirley found her love for writing at a very young age, and since then has let her imagination run wild by creating quirky characters and vast worlds in her head. Shirley lives in New Jersey and works in the entertainment industry in New York City.

Author links:
– Website
– Facebook
– Twitter
– Goodreads
– Instagram