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Other books in this collection:
Falling In Love… Again
When Love Goes Bad
Losing It For Love
Forbidden Love
When Love Sizzles
LOVE IN
STRANGE
PLACES
YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU
CAN’T HIDE FROM LOVE
The timeless love stories from
True Romance and True Love live on.
Edited by Barbara Weller,
Cynthia Cleveland and Nancy Cushing-Jones
BroadLit
October 2012
Published by
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ISBN 978-0-9859596-5-4
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This collection is dedicated to all of you who arelooking for true love or have already found it.
Table Of Contents
He was the only thing that stood between my baby and me and utter despair
THE LADY-KILLER AND THE MAN-EATER
They were the perfect match— if they could only stand the heat!
UP AND DOWN ON A ROLLER COASTER: I rode for free!
MR. MECHANIC, I NEED SOME BODY WORK!
I didn’t think I’d have any luck in a singles’ bar, until. . .
I played the dating game with a student’s dad
TEMPTED BY A CONVICT— IN LOVE WITH A COP
WE WERE STRANGERS ON A SNOWY BUS TRIP. . .
Until the spirit of the season made us a family
WHEN A SECRET ADMIRER GOES TOO FAR
Some women pack up and just walk away
I served myself for dessert to my favorite customer!
SEXY BUNS—AND HE’S NAKED IN MY KITCHEN!
What more could a woman possibly want?
I WOKE UP HUNGOVER—AND MARRIED!
What is the perfect place to find true love? Most likely it’s not a question you’ve pondered, and yet you probably do have a pretty clear idea of the scenario. You’ll meet your man in a gorgeously romantic setting while you’re looking your best and feeling on top of your game.
Certainly you don’t think of finding true love in your kitchen at the end of a terrible day at work, or when you’re a passenger in a semi-truck being driven by a handsome stud -- and you’re vomiting because you’re pregnant with another man’s baby! And yet, IT happens. You can stumble into true love in the most decidedly unromantic places and under some pretty shocking conditions– as you are about to discover through the stories in this collection.
True love – thank goodness! -- has also been found when you decide to literally escape from a twisted “love” -- such as a stalker’s crazed obsession or a father’s incestuous possession. The genuine love these women eventually found was all the more glorious when juxtaposed against the terror of their past.
Then there’s the failure of merely good-enough love, which can lead you to despair of ever finding true love. To protect your fragile heart, you might play mind games by telling yourself that you don’t care about true love or that you aren’t looking for it or that you don’t