"A heartbreaking tale of letting go and learning to love again. A jaw-dropping debut novel you have to read.” - Helena Newbury, New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author.
How do you start over when you gave everything to one life, one plan, and lost it all?
Althea refuses to allow herself to love again. Imprisoned in grief at twenty-four after her husband’s sudden death, she’s convinced her heart died along with him. She spends her days honoring his memory by clinging to the legal career he helped her to build and to the remaining pieces linking them together.
Griffen’s been running from his past. Despite success as an author and investigative journalist, he’s been traveling through life on autopilot. For a decade, he’s chosen perilous adventures and meaningless sex over the danger of any attachments. When he finally returns home to Pittsburgh, he’s slammed by the awakened memories and regret he’s spent years trying to escape.
A chance encounter brings them together. Their instant desire for each other – and the bond they discover between them – shocks them both. Despite her best efforts, Althea can’t resist Griffen’s charm or his intriguing proposition – if she agrees to a no-strings affair with him for the two weeks he’s in town, he swears he’ll walk away when their time is up. Assured she can test the waters of a new life while keeping her vow never to betray her husband’s memory by opening her heart to another, Althea throws herself into the escape Griffen provides her.
Their perfect plans go awry when the intensity of their connection overwhelms them. Will they risk it all on the chance of something great together…or will the power of their secrets and guilt tear them apart?
Author Bio
Chloe
is a contemporary romance novelist and practicing attorney living in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband and their sweet puppy. She is a
native Washingtonian that graduated Duke
University with a degree in English and Chinese language. She met her
husband at Duke and he brought her to
Pittsburgh over a decade ago, which she has loved ever since and made her
adopted hometown. She also attended the University
of Pittsburgh Law School where she continued to be a book-loving nerd.
Chloe
has always loved writing and although she does do it professionally as a
lawyer, she cherishes the opportunity to craft her fictional novels and share
them with the world.
When
Chloe isn’t writing, she spends her time exploring Pittsburgh with her husband
and friends. She also enjoys yoga, jogging, and all Pittsburgh sports, as well
as her Duke Blue Devils. She is an
avid reader and wrote her debut novel Three
Rivers in her spare time. She continues her tireless legal style of
research in her fiction work as well. For example, in an effort to bring
authenticity to Three River’s treatment of grief and loss, she consulted with a
psychologist and grief counselor during its preparation.
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