Spotlight & Giveaway: Say You Still Love Me by K.A. Tucker

Posted August 5th, 2019 by in Blog, Spotlight / 46 comments

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author K.A. Tucker to HJ!
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Hi Kathleen and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, Say You Still Love Me!

 
Hi and welcome readers!
 

To start off, can you please tell us a little bit about this book?:

Say You Still Love Me is a second chance romance with star-crossed lovers- Piper and Kyle – who met as counselors in summer camp, but lost touch after a tragic night. Thirteen years later, Kyle begins working as a security guard in Piper’s office building and Piper finds herself caught up in old feelings.
 

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

Because, even after all these years, with college and boyfriends, and my career and my engagement to David, Kyle Miller has always been a sliver in my heart, a shadow in my thoughts. A lingering “what if” that I have never been able to truly shake.

 

What inspired this book?

I was dropping my children off at summer camp near our cottage and watching the counselors. I began wondering what kind of trouble they might be getting into, away from their parents for an entire summer.

 

How did you ‘get to know’ your main characters? Did they ever surprise you?

I knew who Piper and Kyle were going into this story, but what was challenging was writing them both first as teenagers and then as late 20/early 30-year-olds. They have obviously matured a lot in the present day, but they still needed to show some semblance of their younger selves.

 

What was your favorite scene to write?

That night by the bonfire, when Piper and Kyle talk for the first time. I wanted there to be that instant overwhelming teenage attraction, where nothing and no one else matters. The scene feels both playful and intoxicating.

snippet:
“Lie,” he murmurs without missing a beat.
“How do you know?” And what the hell even is that?
“Because she hates reptiles.”
Ahhh . . .
“Especially turtles.”
I frown. “Who hates turtles?”
“Exactly.” His eyebrows pull together. “I need to be with the kind of girl who likes turtles.” He pauses a beat and then peers at me with intense scrutiny. “Are you the kind of girl who likes turtles?”
I struggle to suppress what would no doubt be a stupid grin, as flutters stir in my stomach. “I love turtles.” The chocolate pecan kind. As far as the living kind go, I’m indifferent. I mean, I’d swerve if I saw one crossing the road, but I have no plans to join a “Save the Turtles” advocacy program.
But this has nothing to do with turtles, anyway.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
 

What was the most difficult scene to write?

There’s a scene near the end of the story, tied to the tragic night from summer camp, that was very difficult to write. I can’t give details without spoiling the story but I’ll say that it was emotional and I struggled to tell it in the right way.

 

Would you say this book showcases your writing style or is it a departure for you?

Say You Still Love Me is what I most love to write — strong female characters, challenging families, and a plot that revolves not only around romance but also focuses on life’s complexities.

 

What do you want people to take away from reading this book?

I want readers to escape their own world for a few hours and immerse themselves in Piper and Kyle’s world. I’m also hoping it captures a bit of summer nostalgia from their youth.

 

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have planned?

I’m currently working on a domestic thriller. I also have a few other stories outlined

 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

 

Giveaway: Print copy of Say You Still Love Me by K.A. Tucker

 

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Book Info:

Life is a mixed bag for Piper Calloway.

On the one hand, she’s a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad’s multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she’s considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated world and constantly has to prove her worth. Plus she’s stuck seeing her narcissistic ex-fiancé—a fellow VP—on the other side of her glass office wall every day.

Things get exponentially more complicated for Piper when she runs into Kyle Miller—the handsome new security guard at Calloway Group, and coincidentally the first love of her life.

The guy she hasn’t seen or heard from since they were summer camp counselors together. The guy from the wrong side of the tracks. The guy who apparently doesn’t even remember her name.

Piper may be a high-powered businesswoman now, but she soon realizes that her schoolgirl crush is still alive and strong, and crippling her concentration. What’s more, despite Kyle’s distant attitude, she’s convinced their reunion isn’t at all coincidental, and that his feelings for her still run deep. And she’s determined to make him admit to them, no matter the consequences.
 
 

Meet the Author:

K.A. Tucker writes captivating stories with an edge. She is the bestselling author of the Ten Tiny Breaths and Burying Water series and the novels He Will Be My Ruin, Until It Fades, Keep Her Safe, and The Simple Wild. She currently resides in a quaint town outside Toronto with her husband and two beautiful girls.

 

 

 

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46 Responses to “Spotlight & Giveaway: Say You Still Love Me by K.A. Tucker”

  3. Mary Preston

    I’m glad to say this has never happened to me. I don’s know what I would do.

  5. Jennifer Shiflett

    No, I can’t say that I have. I don’t know what I’d do.

  9. Marcy Meyer

    I have run into an ex before. It is a little awkward, so I just ignore him. Act like he’s not there.

  12. Katie Lowden

    No I haven’t, maybe someone in high school who was mean to me. I usually just ignore them and walk away. Thank you for the chance!!

    • Joy Tetterton Avery

      Listened to his story of how the woman he left me for did every negative thing to him that he did to me. Left that meeting feeling strangely vindicated.

  14. katielowden

    This has never happened to me,I would probably ignore and walk away. Thank you for the chance

  26. Summer

    Fortunately I haven’t had that kind of situation, but it sounds like it will make for a juicy book premise.

  27. Connie Lee

    I have never run in to someone that hurt me terribly in the past.

  30. Banana cake

    Nope, I live 1,200 miles from where I grew up so I don’t run into people that hurt me as a child.

  33. Lilah Chavez

    Well… We reconnected via Instagram.. Does that count?.. Truthfully, it was so long ago that I was like whatever

  34. Heidi

    Yes, unfortunately. However, I ignored them, acting as if I didn’t know them from Adam.

  44. Patricia B.

    Luckily I had no one outside the family who hurt me terribly. When it is family, you are kind of stuck with them and learn to deal with it.