EASY IN THEORY
(formerly SECOND CHANCES)
When there are no guarantees and every decision comes at a price, making safe choices is only easy in theory. Professor Lena Gendler once thought she could have it all—a loving husband, happy children, and a successful academic career. But when her young husband dies on a slick stretch of highway, his reckless driving destroys the life they’d built together. A year later, the weight of single motherhood threatens to crush both her romantic hopes and her chances at winning tenure. A chance encounter with her boss’s son, a celebrity author, makes her tenuous balancing act even more precarious. Initially Lena resists his advances; his mother, the dragon lady, wields too much control over Lena’s career to risk an entanglement. But he refuses to take “no” for an answer, and he becomes jealously possessive when he learns Lena’s dating another man. When his mother gets involved, navigating personal and professional relationships takes on an element of danger, especially when someone starts stalking Lena and threatening to hurt her if she doesn’t make the right choice.
WINNER single title category in the Central Ohio Fiction Writers Ignite the Flame Contest 2011
FOURTH PLACE single title category in the Valley Forge Romance Writers The Sheila Contest 2011
THIRD PLACE strong romantic elements category Toronto Roman Writers Catherine Contest 2011
BREACH OF CONTRACT
Three years after a devastating divorce, Katya Gendler finally has her life back on track. A brilliant young attorney, she’s in line for a partnership at a prestigious Manhattan firm if only she can best her competition. Her relationship with her handsome upstairs neighbor is starting to sizzle. Everything in her life seems to be going according to plan—until her ex-husband shows up out of the blue. He’s not only determined to win Katya back, but he needs her legal help in a case of industrial espionage involving his mother, a Russian scientist. As the case unearths family secrets and lies, Katya confronts betrayals large and small and struggles to call the people in her life to account. With no one around her playing by the rules, Katya will have to start making her own if she wants to salvage her future.
FOURTH PLACE in the strong romantic elements category Toronto Roman Writers Catherine Contest 2011
FIRST PLACE romantic elements category New Jersey Romance Writers Put Your Heart in a Book Contest 2011
