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Single in the city sounds good until you’re thirty-years-old in New York City, swiping left, and waking up next to a man with a Thor tattoo on his manhood. After months of begging, I finally took my best friend’s offer and moved out to Napa, California with her and her family. I came here looking for love. What I found was something greater. I never meant to meet Nathaniel Teller. It was by accident, on a Tuesday, that I walked into his bar. He was solemn, intense and hiding a secret behind those stoic green eyes. He didn’t believe in love, and I so desperately did In an attempt to meet my dream man, I signed up for online dating and used Nate’s bar as neutral territory. After each date, he was the one I ended up with, having drinks and talking about life. I never intended to fall in-love with him. We were supposed to be just friends. But I fell for him hard, deep. There was no turning back. I never thought his past would be so dark. And if I thought I had any chance of being in his future, I was wrong. Because his past was his future. And I needed to walk away. When you fall in love it’s forever. But sometimes forever comes with a price.
Author
When I was little, my mom was part of the Double Day book club. She had piles and piles of books lying around the house; most of them with Fabio-esque men and a scantily clad woman set in a different century. I made up stories in my head just from looking at the covers. When I as 9, I wrote stories using my best friend as a muse. They were romances...but for the 9-year-old. She was the only one who read them. When I was 14, another friend gave me a Marian Keyes novel. I fell in-love with her wit, and humor with a dark side. This was my first experience with realistic fiction. When I was 19, Nicholas Sparks forever changed my views on relationships. I learned what true love could be beautiful and difficult at the same time. I wanted it. When I was 22, Jeannette Wells made me feel more emotion from an autobiographical novel than I thought possible. I wanted to be her. When I was 30, Jamie McGuire and Colleen Hoover introduced me to the world of self-publishing. For the first time I thought: I could give this a try someday. When I was 32, my someday came. ———————————————————— Jeannine Colette is the author of the Abandon Collection – a series of stand-alone novels featuring dynamic heroines who have to abandon their reality in order to discover themselves . . . and love along the way. Each book features a new couple, exciting new city and a rose of a different color. A graduate of Wagner College and the New York Film Academy, Jeannine went on to become a Segment Producer for television shows on CBS and NBC. She left the television industry to focus on her children and pursue a full-time writing career. She lives in New York with her husband, the three tiny people she adores more than life itself, and a rescue pup named Wrigley. Want to hear about new releases and get exciting emails from me??? Sign up for my monthly newsletter! www.jeanninecolette.com/newsletter Jeannine and her family are active supporters of The March of Dimes and Strivright The Auditory-Oral School of New York.
