Xpress Yourself Publishing: Author: When Love Comes Around by Victoria Wells

When Love Comes Around
Victoria Wells

Xpress Yourself Publishing, January 31, 2009
ISBN-10: 0-9818094-7-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-9818094-7-2
6 x 9 inches, 254 pages
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he walls are closing in on Starr Avery. An unexpected health crisis sends her into an emotional depression. Everything she's ever dreamed of is hanging on by a fragile cord that's ready to snap. Just when she thinks all hope is gone, her salvation is near.

Kevin Dawson, a career womanizer, is the last man on earth Starr should be willing to put her hope and trust in. The sparks of attraction are magnetizing making his tempting proposal hard to resist, a proposal that would make all her dreams a reality. However, there are evil forces willing to do anything to keep Starr and Kevin apart. Will the lovers be able to overcome such threats? Will love be enough?

victoria wells is a Philadelphia native, and the author of A Special Summer and When Love Comes Around. She has been a lover of books since childhood. As a child she would spend hours reading. To this day reading remains a favorite pastime. Her favorite genre is African American romance.

While taking a creative writing course in college, Victoria became interested in writing. The final assignment for the course was to rewrite the last chapter of The Color Purple. She received not only an A for the assignment, but for the course as well. Professionally, she has written and lectured extensively on sickle cell disease. However, in 2005 after being encouraged by family and friends, she decided to pick up her pen and write her first romance novel.

Victoria is married with three children, she and her family live in the Philadelphia area.

Visit Victoria Wells online at www.victoria-wells.com.

(Taken from Advance Reader's Copy — Unedited Version)

Chapter 1

The movement of pedestrians, whizzing and weaving along the busy sidewalk, did not faze Starr as she walked in a daze down Chestnut Street, with no particular destination in mind. The warm spring afternoon, which was her favorite time of the year, no longer held her interest. She kept replaying in her head the conversation she just had with Dr. Neil. “Starr, your ultrasound results revealed you have a mild case of endometriosis.” He told her the news nonchalantly as if he said, “The sky is blue.”

The diagnosis blew Starr away. She was not prepared to hear any of this. When she mentioned to her doctor at her annual check up two weeks ago that her cycle had become a little heavier with more cramping than usual, she hadn’t thought anything of it. She thought it might have been a change in her hormones or something. Every few years since the onset of her menses her body experienced changes. Initially, her cycle was irregular, then for a while, she had severe cramps and a heavy flow. And a few years later, migraine headaches would attack monthly. So when her body seemed to be reverting to how it behaved in her early twenties, it hadn’t fazed her. After all, she’d just turned thirty-two and figured she was undergoing another change. But now that her doctor confirmed the change wasn’t normal, she was concerned. Really concerned.

It was Starr’s nature to think of the worst possible case scenario. This new condition made her take inventory of her life. In her mind, she envisioned herself an old lady, living with a bunch of cats. Even though she wasn’t crazy about the four-legged fur balls, it would beat being old and all alone. Just the thought of such a bleak future was enough to send her into a mild depression.

Babies…I won’t be able to have any, Starr sadly mused as she mentally kicked herself for not settling down and having children. That was easier said than done. It wasn’t like any of the men she’d dealt with were remotely husband, let alone father, material.

There was Marcus, the two-timing snake. It had taken her five years to break away from him. Whoever said you’d always love your first love should be shot dead, brought back to life, and shot again. There was absolutely nothing Starr loved about that idiot. The demon-possessed man had almost single-handedly ruined her life.