American citizen Nathan Patterson and his Asian-born fiancée are engaged to be married. The only problem is, they've never actually met.
While browsing through a computer magazine, Nathan Patterson noticed an ad that would change his life. He saw the face of the lovely woman and the words printed underneath her: "Beautiful, Faithful Asian Women Want to Meet and Marry You!" Now he and his Asian fiancée, Marife, have 90 days to get married or she has to return to her home country. Do they have enough time to determine if their love, based on exchanging letters, is real?
Excerpt
Nathan reflected on Min’s words. He secretly harbored some apprehension about the evening’s festivities. In a way, tonight would be a test; the first opportunity for him to see how Marife would comport herself among a large group of people.
With the exception of the recent month, for her entire life his fiancée had lived in a home with a dirt floor that had no hot water and no telephone. She had never been to a ballet, watched a live theater presentation or viewed an art exhibit. She had never used a charge card or eaten at a restaurant that did not use plastic eating utensils. She had never heard of Mozart or Gandhi. And she couldn’t name the mayor of her town, or state how many justices sat on her country’s supreme court.
Nathan examined his grandfather’s pocket watch and continued his pondering. In the public and private sector, he had seen important jobs withheld, promotions denied and club memberships withdrawn not because of the candidate, but due to negative evaluations of a candidate’s mate. In a few hours, he would expose a major part of his personal life for all to evaluate. He silently prayed that Marife would make him proud.
Professional Reviews
A real page-turner!
A true-to-life story of an interracial relationship, with its ups and downs. The characters are so real that you feel like you know them personally. A real page turner!”
-Kelli
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Refreshing
A refreshing, sensuous love story told from the male point of view that transcends color and culture.”
I wrote this novel several years ago, I self published and never had it to sell. I have decided to rewrite it and hope to get it published within a few months for people to be able to buy. I had a few copies and gave them to a few family members and
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