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Loving Nate

Loving Nate, June 2014
Cultural Cocktails
by Janice G. Ross

Other Press
Featuring: Nathan Moore; Leah Daniels
80 pages
ISBN: 0615974082
EAN: 9780615974088
Kindle: B00II04118
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"A New Executive Finds Her Boss Is Too Good to Be True"

Fresh Fiction Review

Loving Nate
Janice G. Ross

Reviewed by Clare O'Beara
Posted June 16, 2014

Women's Fiction Contemporary

In a series called Cultural Cocktails we meet Leah Daniels, a handsome, twentyish Florida lady, and her Jamaican boss. Well actually he's her boss's boss, and he shows her around on her first hectic day at work at Rush Media. Nathan Moore approves of his new executive media consultant, especially since she likes reggae.

LOVING NATE at first sight makes Leah act out of normal, professional character. Getting to know him means that she doesn't think to befriend the other executives on her level. They feel slighted and some rebuff Leah when she introduces herself a week later. She loses touch with her best friend, who luckily understands romance. She even takes long lunch breaks, because Nate has a table at a nearby Jamaican restaurant, and he'll make it okay with her boss. From a flirtatious and growing relationship, Nate suddenly disappears for two months, off on a business trip around the country. Should Leah trust a man who doesn't call her?

Waiting around for a boyfriend who walks out of her life for months at a time, then returns and swears he loves her, starts to erode Leah's self-confidence. Her friends warn her not to let herself be used. They say that a man might amuse himself elsewhere while keeping a good woman on hold to marry when he's ready to settle down. Leah can't even imagine seeing anyone else; she's not a cheat. But what kind of relationship is this?

I love the busy, excited Leah from the start, but when her handsome, personable boyfriend started messing her around- you know, I went right off him. Was I right? Should I have been more forgiving and patient? Read this novella to the end, in fact, there are two alternate endings provided, and make up your own mind.

Janice Ross was born in Guyana and is now a US citizen. She likes to support women and other authors. She addresses social issues in her vibrant, realistic stories, shedding light into some as-yet undiscovered corners of relationships. I greatly admire her writing in LOVING NATE and would like to see more. This is a story of all women everywhere, and if Janice Ross can, with her works, help one woman find strength in a confusing, difficult relationship, she deserves all the applause we can give her.

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SUMMARY

Loving Nate is Leah's story of falling in love with Mr. Perfect. Leah falls fast and hard, losing all sense of reasoning. Love can do that to a gal, especially when the guy is as smooth as Nathan Moore. Loving Nate is about Leah's journey of falling in love, when she should have been standing in love. *Author’s Note* I’ve decided to provide two very different endings to this novella. Have you ever made a decision and wondered whether or not it was the right choice? Or perhaps you made the right choice because you knew that the alternative would’ve been disastrous? This is my gift to readers. Regardless of Leah’s final choice, I wanted readers to be able to reflect on the possibilities.


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