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Shaila Patel

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As an unabashed lover of all things happily ever after, Shaila's younger self would finish reading Cinderella and fling her copy across the room because it didn't mention what happened next. Now she writes from her home in the Carolinas and dreams up all sorts of stories with epilogues and characters who look like her.

Her #ownvoices debut novel, Soulmated, won first place in the YA category of the 2015 Chanticleer Book Reviews Paranormal Awards, The Author's Circle 2017 YA Book of the Year, the RWA's FF&P's 2018 PRISM award for Best First Book and Best Young Adult Paranormal, and second place in the YARWA's ATHENA award for YA Paranormal. Fighting Fate and Enduring Destiny, Books 2 and 3, are out now!

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Average rating: 4.36 · 438 ratings · 188 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Soulmated (Joining of Souls, #1) 4.25 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fighting Fate (Joining of Souls, #2) 4.63 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enduring Destiny (Joining of Souls, #3) 4.51 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love on Main by Leanne Treese (Goodreads Author), Melanie Hooyenga (Goodreads Author), C. Vonzale Lewis (Goodreads Author) 4.68 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Culture Clash on Main: A Young Adult Short Romance it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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LOVE ON MAIN is coming!

Love short stories? Love Valentine's Day? Love Hallmark movies?

Well, you don't want to miss this then. I've got a piece coming out in a short story anthology called Love on Main which releases on February 11, 2020. It features romances that take place on Main Street America, and mine takes place in beautiful Rock Hill, South Carolina.

So excited for you to read it! Here's a quick summary:

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Published on January 02, 2020 19:04 • Tags: contemporary-romance, love-stories, main-street, small-town-romance, valentines-day, young-adult-romance

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“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

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“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
― Mark Twain

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“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

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“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
― Stephen Colbert