Within Six Months (Wild Roses #1) is a finalist and winner of the 2019 Wisconsin Romance Writers' Write Touch Readers Award, a 2019 finalist of The Beverley Published Authors Award Contest from the Colorado Romance Writers, and a 2020 finalist in Romance Fiction in the American Bookfest Best Book Awards. Time…escaping his past, struggling with the present, looking towards his future. Time… a gift, precious, fleeting, ever-changing, moving quickly…too quickly, especially for a man searching for the woman of his dreams. That’s exactly how photographer Tommy Conte decided he would begin his new life. He left everything he knew behind in search of something special…someone special. His plan was clear. He would move to the beach, renovate an old shore house and find the woman that he would ultimately marry…all within six months. Was he delusional? Perhaps…yet after everything that had gone on in his life the last few years, he had to take that chance. Then… as luck would have it, he met Jade Stanton, his new neighbor. Tommy was immediately drawn to her. He wanted and needed to know more. Perfect right? Wrong… There was one small problem. Jade wasn’t looking for a long-term relationship like Tommy was. She was done…over it. She swore off anything serious with any man that came her way…until she was backed into a corner and Tommy came to her rescue. He pretended to be her boyfriend…for just one evening. It was simple, no strings attached. It was only one night, or so she thought. Due to circumstances beyond her control, Jade needed Tommy to play his part for a little while longer. She didn’t think it would be a problem. Tommy was fine with it and they both knew it was all just an act. Yet, Jade came to realize the more she pretended, the more she couldn’t deny that she was falling for him. Although she didn’t want Tommy to find out, Tommy knew better; he felt it too. Tommy realized that the girl he had dreamed of was right there in front of him; and the life he wanted to share with her was finally within his grasp. He decided he couldn't let her slip away. He wouldn't leave it up to fate. He had to try, but Tommy also knew it wouldn’t be easy. Actually, it would be the hardest thing he ever had to do…prove to Jade that she could trust him enough to love him, as much as he loved her.
Author
Cleo Scornavacca, L.E., C.C.N., is an award-winning Romance Author, and Screenwriter, a proud member of the New Jersey Romance Writers organization. Her love of reading, and writing came early on, and continued at her first job in a town pharmacy, where she was thrilled to be the one to order the paperbacks the store carried, but nearly couldn't breathe the first time she was told to "rip the covers off the books", to return them to the vendor, when some were left in stock. Cleo's debut novel, Miss Taken, was published in 2013, followed by Identity, book two, and The Ties That Bind, the final novel in the series. Cleo's working on her second series called The Wild Roses. Each book in this series features the secondary characters from Miss Taken. Within Six Months, book one, is published, and book two, Soul Surfers, will be released in 2023, and book one in a Romance Series with a haunting twist. She recently joined the team at Hennion Productions, as a screenwriter, and is currently co-writing a script for the film, A Far Few Years From Now...a psychological thriller. Cleo was born and raised in New Jersey, and lives in the Garden State with her family, and her 90lb Doberman named Brayden.
