Love Unfeigned, A Novella

Love to the chords of a classic jazz band…

From the first time Lorraine, a plucky and competitive girl, contends on the playground against Isaiah, an impish boy whose smile gleams in more ways than one, the two of them can’t help knowing each other. Neither can they avoid passions and misfortunes lining the path to young adulthood, and when the breakup of Isaiah’s family disrupts the haven he’s shared with Lorraine, their natural relationship is eventually threatened by jealousy, grave trauma, and abandonment. As one year follows another, and another, what might it take to reunite these two companions in love: love undeniably real and unbounded by time?

“Everything didn’t have to turn out perfect. I just wanted you there."

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My chief objective behind everything I write is to impart hope, as hope is the meaning of my name, Nadine (a French name.)

I'm rather fond of English, and I've been a bookworm all my life. Fictional writing is my "first love," while the artist in me can't help but to write poetry as well. I hope to bring out the genius in others, since I've come to recognize and appreciate my own genius. (See the link for my Write Your Genius, Genius! author interview, below.)

My parents instituted a family reading club when I was a child, which helped to encourage my early love of books and of writing. I never finished writing the "books" that I started in childhood and during my early teenage years, since I didn't have the best sense of my own voice, but I finally "heard" myself when I wrote my first novel, Yella's Prayers, at the age of seventeen. Ever since then, my life has been my greatest source of inspiration for my writing. I could name a number of books that have influenced me over the years (too many to list), but the greatest influence has always come from the books that have given me hope. Now I endeavor to have that same kind of influence on my readers.