Synopsis
Five weeks
after Natalie walked out of my life, I was forced to go back to the start.
Twice I’d given my heart to those who didn’t want it, leaving me alone again
wondering who I was, where I was meant to be going, and what I stood for.
Loneliness
became my new best friend, no matter how hard I tried to deny it. Bitterness
threatened to take over and turn me into somebody I wasn’t. Nothing made me
feel alive anymore. Nothing made me happy.
Until she
arrived. Her. The girl no one was meant to fall in love with—especially not me.
Especially not then.
We didn’t
know that our time together was fleeting. Our futures were already shaped for
us, weaved together by a string of events that were destined to tear us apart
if we let them. I just wasn’t willing to go down without a fight this time.
Not all men
give up so easily, and the scars on my heart had made me stronger. If anyone
could beat the cruel hand of fate, it was me. All I had to do was believe.
In me. In
her. In us.
That
beautiful, unexpected, thrilling, surprise love of mine.
~ Marcus
Anderson
Meet the Author
Victoria L James is a teenage
girl stuck in a thirty-something year-olds body. Living somewhere
'oop north' in England, she has had a strong passion for words and stories
going as far back as she can remember, which she credits to her grandmother and
her love of reading anything that was on sale and cheap from the local market
stall. Never once did she think she would release a novel, though. At best, she
thought her love of language and her ability to create stories in her mind
would provide her with a 'get out of jail free' card whenever she messed up and
her parents were mad at her during her teenage years... and when even that
didn't work out, she thought she was pretty much done for.
When an opportunity presented
itself for her to take a back seat from paid working life for a few years, she
knew straight away that she had to try and write about a few of these worlds
she'd come up with along the way, and quieten all the voices in her head
without racking up a heavy psychiatry bill for the pleasure.
Wearing her heart on her sleeve
and trying to lighten her friends’ and family’s lives with naff, and more often
than not, badly timed, nineties jokes, she has yet to learn the art of knowing
when to shut up. Which is another reason writing became a passion of hers. With
pen and paper, there are no limits.
A firm believer in never
quitting, with a ridiculous obsession for all things Rocky, she hopes that one
day she writes a story that will inspire at least one person out there to keep
on going if they're struggling. Other than that, she's just a regular old
converse wearing, corona sipping, English version of Chandler Bing, who loves
and adores her family more than life itself. Oh, and she also has two cats.
Every writer has to mention their cats, right?
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