[Love Unexpected 01] • Almost Always

Annalise knows it is never a good idea to play out of your league. She's lived long enough to learn that all important lesson. But it was her last carefree summer. All too soon she'd be pounding the pavement looking for the oh-so-dreaded JOB. There was something about the heady playfulness inside the amateur theater that lent a fairy tale element to her otherwise run of the mill life. So when the scrumptious banker with his elegant hands and custom made suit sends unexpected, but crystal clear seductive signals, she's ready to take a chance. She might never get another shot at playing Cinderella.

Kason Royce doesn't apologize for getting what he wants. He's a man accustomed to winning at everything. The only person who knows the real depth of his losses is himself and he intends to keep it that way. Drawn to Annalise with an intensity he thought he buried deep in Alpine snow, he finds himself an unlikely hero to a woman he can love only one day at a time.

Drawn by circumstance and desire, the improbable lovers find danger and adventure as their journey unfolds. Annalise is awestruck and overwhelmed at the fantasies he is able to conjure out of the air and more than a little afraid she will lose herself in him. As she pulls back, Kason becomes more and more determined to keep her in his life even if it means deceiving her. Ultimately he knows that without the whole truth their relationship can never thrive. Without honesty he can never win. With it, he may still lose his greatest prize.

*"I felt like a virgin teenager who goes to third base and can't get her mind off of what a home run would feel like. The thought of really having Kason was pretty much running in a continuous playback in my mind.

And the emotional part? There was so much more to him than I originally imagined. I wanted to know more. I had to know more." *

This stand alone Love Unexpected Novel is also available in episodic form.