Spotlight & Giveaway: End of Story by Kylie Scott

Posted February 13th, 2023 by in Blog, Spotlight / 37 comments

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Kylie Scott to HJ!
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Hi Kylie and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, End of Story!

 

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

When Susie finds out that her contractor is none other than her Ex’s best friend, she is less than impressed. And Lars feels the same. But it’s when they find a mysterious divorce certificate with both of their names on it dated ten years in the future hidden inside a wall that things get seriously awkward.
 

Please share your favorite line(s) or quote from this book:

But then he looked up at me and said, “We’re inevitable”.
“We’re what?”
“You and me…we’re inevitable.”

 

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

I got to research music, food trucks, and mystics in the Seattle area. All were wild and awesome. Biscuit Bitch in particular sounds amazing.

 

What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?

Susie is a social media manager with a love of fashion. So I like to think it’s her creative mind that first attracts Lars. But it’s probably her b**bs. Let’s be honest. And due to her being his best friend’s Ex, he knows he shouldn’t be looking.

 

Did any scene have you blushing, crying or laughing while writing it? And Why?

I loved the scene where they set out to establish all of the reasons why a marriage between them wouldn’t work. But instead they have an honest adult discussion about what they both want for the future and what they want out of a relationship. It was fun to lay everything out there. From family and children to dividing up household chores etc. Of course they have conversation with tequila and lime.

 

Readers should read this book….

It’s been described as being similar to early Jennifer Crusie which pleases me no end. This book is at heart about all sorts of relationships. Romantic, friendship, family etc. And they bang and it has a happy ever after. Just in case you were wondering.

 

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have in the works?

I’m currently working on a standalone for release in 2024 about a prince. Sort of.
 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

 

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Excerpt from End of Story:

Lars didn’t mess around. By the time I returned, he’d removed the first two panels of drywall. Hands on hips, he stood staring at the interior of the wall with the problematic window. Mostly it looked like a lot of dust and a couple of cobwebs. But then, I’m not a builder. When I handed over his mug, he gave me a brief smile before taking a sip.
“How is it looking?” I asked.
“Your house has good bones.”
“Great.”
“As long as the damage on that wall is due to the moisture spreading from the window and not a leaky bathroom pipe, this should be pretty straightforward,” he said.
I’d taken over the main bedroom, but this room still held a lot of sentimental value for me. Whenever Mom and Dad were busy or needed a break from us kids, my brother would stay at a friend’s house and I’d be packed off to Aunt Susan’s—to this bedroom in particular. Which was fine with me. Isaac was an outgoing jock while I’d been kind of awkward. In this house, I was accepted for who I was. A nice change. With my parents divorced, growing up between three households and living mostly out of a schoolbag sucked. But Aunt Susan gave me the security that was lacking elsewhere.
“Is the floor okay?”
“Let’s pull up some carpet and see.” He set his coffee on the windowsill. Then, knife back in hand, he got busy with the shag. It was impressive how the tool became a part of him. An extension of his body. “You’ve got good solid hardwood under here.”
“Ooh, let me see.”
He tugged the tattered underlay back farther. “Oak, by the look of it.”
“Wow. Imagine covering that beauty up with butt-ugly brown carpet.”
“No sign of water damage. You were lucky.”
I smiled. “That is excellent news.”
“Now let’s see what’s behind this.”
I took a step back so he could start removing the next section of drywall. He had such big capable hands. Watching him work was pure competence porn. As a mature and well-adjusted thirty-year-old woman, I definitely knew better than to have sexy times thoughts again. The best friend of my ex is not my friend. Confucius probably said that.
“Looks like there’s something back here,” he said, setting a panel of drywall aside.
“Something good or something bad?” I winced as a big hairy spider scurried out of the cavity. “Ew.”
“It’s just a wolf spider. Nothing dangerous.”
“But there might be more.”
Without further comment, he reached down and picked up a piece of paper. It looked old. Which made sense. Lord only knew how long it had been in the wall. It was kind of like opening a time capsule.
“What is it?” I asked, more than a little curious.
His gaze narrowed as he scanned the page, his forehead furrowing. Next his brows rose and his lips thinned. His expression quickly changed from disbelief to fury as he shoved the piece of paper at me. The open hostility in his eyes was a lot coming from a man of his size. “Susie, what the fuck?”
“Huh?”
“Is this your idea of a joke?”
“No. I…” The paper was soft with age and the writing was faded but legible. Mostly. Superior Court of Washington, County of King was written at the top. There was also a date stamp. This was followed by a bunch of numbers and the words Final Divorce Order. “Wait. Is this a divorce certificate?”

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Book Info:

When Susie Bowen inherits a charming fixer-upper, she’s excited to start living her best HGTV-life. But when she opens the door to find that her contractor is none other than her ex’s best friend Lars—the same man who witnessed her humiliating public break-up six months ago—she isn’t exactly eager to have him around. The sooner this renovation is done, the sooner Susie can get back to embracing her single life.

Things go from awkward to unbelievable when Lars knocks down a wall and discovers a divorce certificate dated ten years in the future…with both their names on it. It couldn’t possibly be real, could it? As Susie and Lars work to unravel the document’s origins, the impossibility of a spark between them suddenly doesn’t seem so far-fetched. But would a relationship between them be doomed before it’s even begun?
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Meet the Author:

Kylie is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best-selling, Audie Award winning author. She has sold over 2,000,000 books and was voted Australian Romance Writer of the year four times by the Australian Romance Reader’s Association. Her books have been translated into fifteen different languages and she is based in Queensland, Australia.
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37 Responses to “Spotlight & Giveaway: End of Story by Kylie Scott”

  1. Latesha B.

    Yes, I believe in fate and soulmates. I think you can have more than one soulmate: platonic, romantic, etc. Loved the excerpt.

  4. Mary Preston

    No, I believe we make our own destinies. I don’t believe in soul mates, just people who are more compatible.

  5. Laurie Gommermann

    I do believe in fate but what actually transpires is up to a person’s choice.
    I do believe in soul mates. I knew when I met my husband that he was the one. We had a special connection. We don’t always agree on things. We’ve been together since 1975.
    All 4 of my children and my sister have luckily found their soulmates too.

  6. Karina Angeles

    No. We pave our own paths through hard work and determination. Anything other than that is coincidence.

  10. Audrey Stewart

    I believe the most in Karma. Good things happen to me because I do good things for others.

  13. Amy Donahue

    I lean towards not believing in either but I am open to possibilities.

  17. noraadrienne

    Fate is the reason I’m alive today. When I was about 8 yrs old I ran out in the street and was hit by a car. I flew up and out and hit the wall of an apartment building, slid to the floor and wondered what happened. All I remember is looking up to sky and saying “thank you grandpa”.

    • Dianne Casey

      I do believe in fate and soul mates. What is meant for you will never miss you.

  31. Ellen C.

    Good questions. I think your actions shape your life, rather than fate. Soulmates, maybe.