True Paradises

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How far would you go for a second chance?

“Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu’on a perdus.” – Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Gallimard, Paris 1927.

In True Paradises, two tales of love and loss intertwine around the question: Is paradise something we find, or something we only recognize after it’s gone?

In Second Chances, Nathan embarks on a world cruise, hoping to win back an old flame. Instead the tide pulls him toward Holly, a fellow traveler adrift in her own grief.  But his obsession with rewriting the past threatens to sink their fragile present. Can Nathan let go of old dreams before Holly too floats from his grasp?

In The Last Goodbye, Jamie hides from his ghosts on the island of Moorea. But when Alison, the ex-fiancée he abandoned, arrives ahead of a tropical storm, Jamie’s safe harbor is laid bare.  Forced to confront the shipwreck of their love and the guilt that drove him to leave, he must decide where his heart belongs before the storm and his past consume him.

True Paradises is an exploration of love, regret, and the truth that sometimes the only paradise is the one we can never reclaim.

An anthology of two novellas: in the first, a man sails the globe on a romantic quest to rewrite his past. In the second, another hides from his ghosts but must confront the woman he abandoned when she arrives in front of a tropical storm.

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