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Too Little, Too Late?
Rob Carter had a loving girlfriend, a steady job, good friends and the boss from hell.At the same time, as his fifties passed far too quickly, he could see the life he should have had shortening with each day he lived the life he had been given.
The friends were there for him, but they had their own problems to bear: the autistic son, the wife-beating husband, the adulterer. Perhaps it would be so much easier simply to let everything slide away, flense his life of people who would be hurt when he stepped aside from breathing. All he needed to do was outlast his mother to spare her the pain of outliving a son.
Then, one miserable day on a miserable job with a miserable trader, he met Larinda, a woman who knew exactly what she wanted, and that seemed to be him. Perhaps the world could be reshaped, after all.
A story of love lost, love found and the discovery that names are only labels, not the essence.
The friends were there for him, but they had their own problems to bear: the autistic son, the wife-beating husband, the adulterer. Perhaps it would be so much easier simply to let everything slide away, flense his life of people who would be hurt when he stepped aside from breathing. All he needed to do was outlast his mother to spare her the pain of outliving a son.
Then, one miserable day on a miserable job with a miserable trader, he met Larinda, a woman who knew exactly what she wanted, and that seemed to be him. Perhaps the world could be reshaped, after all.
A story of love lost, love found and the discovery that names are only labels, not the essence.
472 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 6, 2013
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About the author
S.A.A. Calvert
25 books11 followersI am Steph Calvert, and the thing that most people pick up on is that I am transgendered. That doesn't make me special, but it does influence my writing. I will be blunt: I write love stories. I don't mean fluffy bodice-rippers involving a lot of smouldering, but stories set in the real world, or at least as real as I can make it. Warts and all, but infused throughout with Pandora's gift. How could anyone live without hope?
Most of my stories are tied together with one brutal event, and while I have not written the details, and will not, it is the effects on other people that generate the tales. I make no apologies for the brutality in some of the scenes, just as I make no excuses for the bits where True Love...well, you know the schema.
Most of my stories are tied together with one brutal event, and while I have not written the details, and will not, it is the effects on other people that generate the tales. I make no apologies for the brutality in some of the scenes, just as I make no excuses for the bits where True Love...well, you know the schema.
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January 8, 2020
Once again, Steph Calvert weaves her magic.
The "Border" series; of which this is the 7th instalment, is worthy of a place on everyone's bookshelf, electronic or otherwise, and once again the characters endear themselves to you; even the unsympathetic ones.
Although each episode feels more like a "Fly-on-the-Wall" than a work of fiction; although without the actors being aware of, and therefore playing to, the Audience; this does nothing to detract from the quality of the content; and the people on the "Border" all feel real to the Reader.
This feeling is all too rare to achieve in todays literature and the Author is totally at home in this genre.
I thoroughly recommend this series to anyone who likes a good story.
5 Stars
The "Border" series; of which this is the 7th instalment, is worthy of a place on everyone's bookshelf, electronic or otherwise, and once again the characters endear themselves to you; even the unsympathetic ones.
Although each episode feels more like a "Fly-on-the-Wall" than a work of fiction; although without the actors being aware of, and therefore playing to, the Audience; this does nothing to detract from the quality of the content; and the people on the "Border" all feel real to the Reader.
This feeling is all too rare to achieve in todays literature and the Author is totally at home in this genre.
I thoroughly recommend this series to anyone who likes a good story.
5 Stars
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