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Monday, August 8, 2011

Meet Mac Caldwell, hero from "Now and Forever 1, a Love Story"

Here's an excerpt from my latest release, "Now and Forever 1, a Love Story", which received a 4.5 star review on amazon over the weekend. Meet Mac, my hero.


From his office window, Mac Caldwell looked down on the main quad and the growing activity. He brushed his dark hair out of his blue eyes. He was tall and lean, except for the fourth
finger of his left hand, which was slightly crooked. He broke it in a high school basketball game.
          Mac evaluated his life, with another school year beginning, what was he beginning? The students Mac saw from his window looked hopeful, anxious and single-minded. But what about his life? Mac made some poor choices. He married the pretty but vacant woman he accidentally impregnated and was now divorced. He fathered a beautiful toddler, Jason, he adored but only saw on weekends. Loneliness ate away at Mac. He wanted a family, not this disjointed arrangement. After his divorce, Mac buried his pain and concentrated on getting ahead. It paid off when he was made an undergraduate dean.
        Two years later, success wasn‘t enough. At thirty-four years old, he wanted a woman in his life, but the right woman, someone he not only wanted to sleep with, but wanted to wake up with, too. He stayed away from co-eds, tempting as they could be, they were big trouble for an administrator. He felt frustrated, his life was stalled.
        As he looked out the window, he spied Callie sitting alone on a bench in the quad. She looked beautiful with her shoulder length chestnut hair blowing in the breeze and her blue sundress revealing a slim figure. Mac got closer to the window. He couldn‘t see her perfectly, but enough to know she wasn‘t familiar. The other students rushing around were in groups, or at least pairs. This young woman was alone. He watched her as she walked toward the administration building, his gaze drawn to the graceful motion of her body, the gentle sway of her hips.


A little bit about "Now and Forever 1, a Love Story":
Callie Richards was no stranger to heartache. Her parents were killed when she was sixteen. Left with her older sister, she fell into a romance with good-looking, Kyle Maine. They became engaged and Callie’s future was set until he was killed in Iraq. Two years later, she pulls herself together to get her Master’s degree and restart her life on her own.

Working and studying at Kensington State University, Callie meets Mac Caldwell, the handsome dean. Together they fight a deadly campus drug ring with heart-breaking results. This is an emotional story, not a cookie-cutter romance, that will make you laugh and cry as Callie struggles to make a new life, find love and her happy ending.


Get a taste of “Now and Forever 2, the Book of Danny”, to be released in November, when you buy “Now and Forever 1”

2 comments:

Jennifer Labelle said...

Sounds like such a great read. I love emotional tales. Rough beginning meets the well deserved happy ending. I'll look forward to reading this. I hope you get many sales.

Jean Joachim Books said...

Thank you, Jennifer. Yes, it is a rough beginning but ends happily. Love the HEA after surviving much loss.