Gator Girl: THE AFTERMATH - Book 5Kari NelsonThis has been a loving adventure for me that is unfortunately/fortunately coming to a close.

I appreciate everyone's feedback- good and bad. There are some heated emotions, especially with Book 5. I want you all to know I tried and agonized over removing a lot of things from Book 5. I wanted to re-write this story a billion times and not allow the difficult things to happen, but I just had to do what was true. In the end I chose to write what I set out to do originally with the characters, no matter how hard it is to take. I hope that you all understand why in the end. (That's my goal)

I got over a major hump in Book 5. Betrayal, and constant betrayal at that is hard to take and I am amazed and thrilled that so many of you felt the betrayal so whole-heartedly as if it was your own.

That you can feel my words so intensely speaks more to me than anything. The venting helped me to get over it. When I posted I'm moving on to book 6, it was because Book 5 took a lot away from me. I was a bit devastated. I wanted to write more and not stop. I finally decided that I need to let the bleeding happen so healing could take place.

SO... BOOK 6! Man, KELSEY what will she do? I tell you what, she can take a lot, but when she has had enough, get out of her way because she is going to explode.

The girl has gone through too much. Now she has been shot. It seems contrived and thrown together. She gets shot and now she is living with Stephen, so now she just has to forgive him... wait for it! I am anything but cliché. I think of what I would do in this situation and I write the opposite, because I would have totally fallen for Stephen at hello and the story would have ended. LOL!

What I will tell you is Chase returns and he isn't afraid of the big bad wolf (Stephen- in case that isn't clear.) I love that Chase was unaffected by Stephen's sudden presence when he first met him in Book 5 and that he isn't impressed about who he is. (I was cheering, probably on my own.)

Chase is able to break Kelsey away from Stephen where Landon's loyalty to Stephen has stopped him from doing it.

These two boys (Chase and Stephen) won't be playing nice at all in 6! SO! How does it all end?? YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO READ IT (Oh, yeah, I know you're going to say RELEASE IT!!!)

I am such a 'Drama Mama' that this series is killing me to end it.

Right now - KEY WORD right now Book 6 has a happy ending and you could very well stop reading right here, but BOOK 7

OMIGOSH!!! If you don't read book 7, well, I won't be mad, but you will miss out on getting to know it all. I am a bit of mad scientist... everything you heard/learned comes together to this ultimate goal. Kelsey's whishy washy memory, her mother's death, her father, her brothers, Nicollet, Tracy, Michael, Chase, Susan, Landon, Jacqueline and the reason why we read this CRAZY insane book HRH Prince Stephen Lyons. I want you all to know his ultimate fate. Oh yeah, I'm excited! ARE YOU???

P.S. Cancer has touched so many of our lives and I wanted a story of hope in a dire circumstance with a romance that is a bit tragic and emotionally heartfelt. It is a book of fiction, but I truly hope that one day there will be a cure to this horrible disease. Until there is a cure, there is hope. Okay, I'm done here. BACK TO writing!