From the BLURB: When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for? This is a love story about what happens when the love fades. It’s about staying in love, seizing love, forsaking love, and committing to love with everything you’ve got. And above all, After I Do ...
Hello Darling Readers! Welcome to the end of 2019, and the close of a decade too. I was going to be *really* ambitious and try to do a ‘Top Ten Faves of the Decade’ list but then I realised … I started this blog in August 2009 and that’s ten-years exactly ! Which just blows my mind. So if you want a running-list of my fave books of the last decade, you can literally just look at my ‘ Favourite Books ’ page. They’re all there. So I’ve decided to stick to my traditional Fave Books of the Year round-up instead. With the proviso that I seriously didn’t read much this year. Well. That’s not 100% true. I haven’t read lots of *published* books this year. In my capacity as literary agent I’ve read a TON of manuscripts at various stages of completion ( including my own , that I feel I’ve read about X50 times throughout all the editorial stages) and then I’ve also read quite a few soon-to-be-published books by way of advanced reader copies that I can’t talk about yet. So. I’ve read...
