Excerpt

Reflections
A Request For Closure
    What do you do when you’ve given your heart to a man and then find out that he is married?  
    What do you do when you have a dream and the man you love wants you to give it up?
         What do you do when you’re looking for love and find two men who want you to share their lives?

    Twenty years ago…
    Jazmin Reed was a brassy sharp-tongued beauty that landed in Colorado Springs after a freak accident
    ruined her modeling career in New York.  Bored and depressed, Jazmin want s to go back home until the
    night she meets Vincent 'Brick' Marks, a first round draft choice for the Denver Nuggets, and a man so in love
    with Jazmin, he proposes the second night.  All Brick wants is for Jazmin to be his wife, a decision that
    becomes even more complicated for her after Jazmin receives an offer to resume her modeling career.

    Arianna Jackson was a gorgeous, but naive, party girl who grew up in a two-parent household where
    violence reigned king.  Though men pursue her relentless, Arianna had no interest in love or the ties that
    bind.  Her only goal is to experience all of the fun her bible-thumping mother denied her growing up, which
    she does until the night she meets Milton 'Jace' Barnes, a man who makes it his mission to capture her heart.  
    Jace is a New Yorker and far more sophisticated than any man Arianna has ever met.  He is also married and
    a father, information he keeps hidden from Arianna until the night she runs into his wife, which places
    Arianna in the middle of a moral crisis and a battle between the teachings of her religious upbringing and the
    desires of her heart.

    Self-absorbed Paige Michaels was a beautiful, divorced mother whose main goal was to get another husband
    and a father for her four year old daughter.  Paige craves the security of marriage and bounces from bed to
    bed searching for love in all the wrong places.  Looking too hard, she almost misses Jermaine 'Lewis' Jacobs,
    a handsome army soldier who soon moves in with Paige and readily steps into the role of Jessie’s father.  For
    Paige something in the relationship is missing and she continues her nighttime wanderings into the beds of
    strangers until she meets Raymond Steward, an architect, and the perfect romantic partner for her.  Knowing
    that she can’t have both, but unable to make a decision about which man she wants, Paige finds herself
    walking on the edge as she struggles to balance her time between the two men.

    Today…
    Arianna, Jazmin, and Paige have made a success of their lives—professionally.  However, memories of past
    love still haunt the relationships they share today.  Now, the men they left behind are back and the women
    find themselves again standing at a crossroads where the decisions they make will determine their futures.
When was the last time you thought about your first love?
Wanda Y. Thomas, Author
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