Dangerous Liaisons
One
touch, sparks fly, true love for life time.
Lizzie Cameron was
leaving her parent’s home in Scotland to join university in London. Before
departing she began to search the house’s attic and found an old diary. It
belonged to Queen Margaret of the sixteenth century and
was named “Book of Hours”. The diary had the evidence that Lizzie had royal
blood in her. The queen had written a
command for her heirs, “I
direct and beseech my heirs to find love where they may. Love is a gift of God,
not of kings.” Lizzie’s
mother told her that the book was being passed on from mother to daughter for
generations with a promise to find true love and have a daughter to whom the
book could be passed on. Lizzie made the same promise to her mother and went to
London for her new life.
One day she was walking on
the road when the strap of her purse broke and all her belongings fell on the
ground. A tall, dark-haired man came to her help and asked her if he should fix
the strap. Their hands touched by accident and everything stopped for them.
They felt a strong connection that can’t be named like an invisible force, a
thread that was pulling them together. In that one instant that stretched to a
thousand years, they both felt that they have found someone really special. The
backstreet boy dared to ask her out but stopped. How could he offer any luxury
to a girl wearing Gucci. So Michael just fixed the strap and went away with
only the warm feeling on his hand. But he had no idea that he had dropped his
cell phone there.
Days passed and Lizzie
Cameron tried hard to forget that dark-haired stranger who stopped her heart
with just a single touch but failed. She left her university and had a dispute
with her parents. She was determined to find him among the streets of London
and if he also loved her then she’ll be able to fulfil her promise to Margaret.
But without any idea of where he lives, what his name is, where he works, she
began to find him with the cell phone whose battery was running out and which
had no contact numbers.
Love and faith finally
brought her in the arms of Michael. He had no resources, no money, no proper
job but had a dream to become a good actor and to swim his way out of this
poverty and give Lizzie the comforts she deserves. It all didn’t matter to her,
what mattered most was Michael’s condition that if they were to spend life
together then they can’t have children. Can Lizzie be with Michael and be the
last heir to Margaret and break her promise? Will it be still possible for them
to be together once their lives take sudden shifts? Is it possible for them to
fulfil their promise of not loving anyone else ever again?
Dangerous
Liaisons by Sarah Stuart is the story of love, faith and of a hard journey
of a young couple determined to make their mark in music and drama with a
brilliant touch of some historical fiction. This book is music to one’s ears. The
sweet romance will make the butterflies in your stomach spread their wings and heartbreaks
and tragedies will make you cry.
The Opposite Of Maybe
“how it is that when your life starts to change, the surfaces of everything around you take on such meaning”
Maybe was a
word that was changing course of Rosie’s life. In a few days her life became a
huge list of maybes. Maybe Jonathan is right. Maybe this teacup museum is what he
needs. Maybe leaving my job and
moving to another part of the country and leaving my friends and job won’t be
that bad. Maybe marriage is what I need.
Rosie is forty
four. She has a great job which she enjoys, a long and satisfied relation with
Jonathan with promises of no marriage and no kids. The loss of her mother at a
young age has left voids in her life but she has learned to live with them or at
least she thinks that she has. Her grandmother Soapie is having health issues
and needs to be taken care of but she is denying the fact and thinks that a
woman as fun and independent as her should. Her life was going okay when suddenly Jonathan
got an offer from some collector who wanted his teacups collection at his
museum in California. So in order to convince Rosie he proposed her publically,
made her say yes and left for the museum. Rosie resigned her job, made all the
arrangements for the wedding and moving, invited her closest friends but
Jonathan cancelled the wedding on the last moment as he was busy. He left her to bear all the
responsibilities alone with a broken foot.
When things became
unbearable with Jonathan, Rosie broke up with him and moved to Soapie’s. Then she discovered that she is pregnant,
pregnant at 44 with a broken relationship, no job and no home. But thanks to Soapie
who had brought Tony from her yoga class life began to work out for Rosie. Tony
was young, sweet and handsome with his own problems in married life. He began
to take care of Soapie as well as Rosie. Broken and depressed they became a one
big happy family. That’s when Rosie realised that her life has become the Opposite
of Maybe.
Opposite of Maybe by Maddie Dawson is a sweet, romantic and full of fun story.
The best quality of this story is that the characters are really close to
reality. This story really touched my heart. The character I loved most was
Tony. Maddie made him so sweet and nice that you’ll just want to go into the
book and hug him. It is a light read, funny and romantic that will make you cry
at some times and at others you just can’t stop laughing.
“She hears Tony bounding up the stairs and knocking
at the bathroom door. ‘Well?’ he says. ‘Can you open the door?’
She puts the test strip down on the counter
and opens the door. He’s standing outside, with arms outstretched, and she goes
straight into them, sniffling, limping, melting.
‘No, really, how did you know?’ she says.
‘How did you not know?’ he says back.”
(Maddie Dawson)
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