Tara Taylor Quinn dares to novelize her own true love story, in her groundbreaking novel filled with heartbreaking truths. It Happened on Maple Street sends a soaring message of hope that the redeeming power of love and refusing to bow to tragedy or time, can truly conquer all.
The quintessential good girl with her nose in a book, Tara lived in a sleepy Ohio town. She'd never been kissed when she began college, but that soon changed when she met hunky tennis ace Tim Barney in a Geology class. Tara fell so hard and fast she didn't need a rock on her finger to make the ultimate commitment. But Tim wasn't ready to commit and Tara walked away, knowing she could never recover from the irreparable hurt he was capable of wielding with a wave of his hand.
It was another man's hand who shattered her trust and took her innocence on one fateful night. And yet another man she laid cold beside in a loveless marriage-of-convenience bed. Yes, bad things happened after Tara broke up with Tim at his parent's house on Maple Street. Very bad things that she hid within the open pages of the romance novels she would become famous for writing. These were stories of love overcoming seemingly unbeatable odds and yet Tara Taylor Quinn couldn't hold her own sad marriage together.
But when an email message suddenly upends her world, the past is brought into shocking focus. The message is from Tim Barney. Does she remember himβthe guy from college whose heart she broke? He's never forgotten her.
Plunged into a plot twist beyond her own imaginings, Tara has to discover if love can be as real as the kind she writes about. Is it possible that after years of emotional isolation, she may finally embrace a happily-ever-after of her own?
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Dear Reader:
You’re holding a one of a kind story. I can say that because I wrote it and I know that I am never, ever going to write another one like it. This is a once in a lifetime kind of book about a once in a lifetime kind of love.
As a naïve and sheltered twenty-year old, I trusted a man of God. And when he mistreated me, and told me the fault was mine, I believed him. For almost thirty years I carried the secret of what that man had done to me. Until my true love came back into my life with the determination to set me free.
This book, a romance novel unlike any other, is a tribute to a love that is stronger than time. Stronger than tragedy and human frailties. And it is a coming out. My family and friends will be hearing my story for the first time, right along with the rest of the world. I hope and pray that in its telling, other women will find the courage and conviction that I did not have, the trust and faith, to speak up when they are wronged. To tell someone. Anyone.
And this book is a tribute to my husband – Tim Barney. He is proof positive that the love I write about, the love that is strong enough to survive anything, really does exist. I am Tara Taylor Quinn, USA today bestselling author of 115 romance and suspense novels. And this is my true love story.
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