FORGOTTEN
A
new romance/suspense novel
by
Joe
Prentis
I wouldn’t knowingly start any novel
if there wasn’t a romance involved in the plot. Who could ever forget Les
Miserables, Gone with the Wind, or Anna Karenina? In other books, the love
interests might be more subtle. You will find love stories intertwined in the
main plot in most suspense novels. James Patterson does it well, and even the
most hardened prison stories have romance in some fashion. It might be a long
ago high school romance, but if it is worth reading, it is there, and even more
poignant because it is often intertwined with anger and hate.
I don’t like what some people call
romance, which is nothing but thinly disguised porn. You know the kind of story
I’m talking about. The guy enters the laundry, says hello to a girl standing by
the washers, and almost immediately they are on the folding table trying to
increase the world’s population.
The most important question an
author can ask is: ‘what do the characters want?’ That can involve many things,
but the most important is love and to be loved in some fashion or the other.
‘Forgotten’ is such a story. Amber
is lonely, so shy that she has almost no friend except Emily, and a driving
desire to have a career as a singer. Her mother has died two months before her
graduation from USC, and she has no relationship with her father except for an
occasional visit from him. Who is Robert Fitzgerald, she has always wondered,
or more important is the question of what he is. Her father is suddenly in her
life again, showering her with gifts and offers to help her find the career she
wants. But does she dare let down her defenses long enough to establish a
relationship with him? Despite her reservation, her life is suddenly out of
control, and she finds herself in a turbulent situation that both excites and
frightens her.
Don’t miss Forgotten. It will be
released on Amazon Kindle this week at the introductory price of 99¢.
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