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The Leftover Son: Book 1 of the Portrait of an Unlikely Affair series
"What" he is has always been the focus of how he is seen. But she sees him for "who" he is. And that wasn't supposed to happen.
(formerly published as Portrait of an Unlikely Affair by Em Brooks)
It’s 1995 and an adventure of improbable events begins with movie royalty and a classified weapon arriving in Cable Glen on the same day -- Two worlds such as these were never meant to collide.
She captivates the public simply by being herself. Avonlea Stone is the sweetheart of film and television, living a fairy tale in the eyes of her fans, the public, and the media. Her life was an open book until she was attacked by a stalker, which shattered her faith in the world and sent her into hiding. Over a year later, she never expected her new boyfriend, Connor Jones, would be the key to finding the very thing she did not know she was missing. He asks her to go home to meet his parents who reside in a small mining town called Cable Glen in northwest Montana. Today’s the day Connor and Avonlea arrive to meet Connor’s mother Jan and her husband, Tom Ridley.
Cable Glen is a complicated small town with its truth hidden in plain sight and it takes a lot to keep it that way. The town’s patriarch is Judge Thomas Ridley but being a judge is just optics. Tom is a general in a very classified military unit that makes its home in Cable Glen. Today the deadliest soldier in the world is arriving to Cable Glen and Tom is hopeful. Known as 249, this soldier has long been designated as a weapon, not a human, and is the only surviving soul of the feared unit known as Oscar Company. 249 holds answers in his mind, solutions to the massacre of his Company, as well as specialized training that died with the very people who created him. 249 also has a rare terminal disease and time is ticking. Tom knows that the loss of 249 will be a devastating personal blow to him as he knows 249 by another name – Brian, Tom’s middle son. Wracked with guilt, Tom is bringing 249 to Cable Glen so he can oversee whatever time his son has left.
And today Tom has forgotten that he is meeting his stepson Connor and Connor’s new girlfriend at the airport.
Today a series of unlikely events is about to occur.
This is just the beginning of a six-book adventure that entangles the reader in life, love, and honor.
This is a book that deals
*Celebrity and Military clean romance
*Alternate Timeline Military Secrets
*Friends to lovers clean romance
*True Identifies withheld from each other
*Cliff hangers endings resolved in the next book
*A series of six books that build on each other
*An uncaring stepmother
*Overcoming illness
*Unfinished business
(formerly published as Portrait of an Unlikely Affair by Em Brooks)
It’s 1995 and an adventure of improbable events begins with movie royalty and a classified weapon arriving in Cable Glen on the same day -- Two worlds such as these were never meant to collide.
She captivates the public simply by being herself. Avonlea Stone is the sweetheart of film and television, living a fairy tale in the eyes of her fans, the public, and the media. Her life was an open book until she was attacked by a stalker, which shattered her faith in the world and sent her into hiding. Over a year later, she never expected her new boyfriend, Connor Jones, would be the key to finding the very thing she did not know she was missing. He asks her to go home to meet his parents who reside in a small mining town called Cable Glen in northwest Montana. Today’s the day Connor and Avonlea arrive to meet Connor’s mother Jan and her husband, Tom Ridley.
Cable Glen is a complicated small town with its truth hidden in plain sight and it takes a lot to keep it that way. The town’s patriarch is Judge Thomas Ridley but being a judge is just optics. Tom is a general in a very classified military unit that makes its home in Cable Glen. Today the deadliest soldier in the world is arriving to Cable Glen and Tom is hopeful. Known as 249, this soldier has long been designated as a weapon, not a human, and is the only surviving soul of the feared unit known as Oscar Company. 249 holds answers in his mind, solutions to the massacre of his Company, as well as specialized training that died with the very people who created him. 249 also has a rare terminal disease and time is ticking. Tom knows that the loss of 249 will be a devastating personal blow to him as he knows 249 by another name – Brian, Tom’s middle son. Wracked with guilt, Tom is bringing 249 to Cable Glen so he can oversee whatever time his son has left.
And today Tom has forgotten that he is meeting his stepson Connor and Connor’s new girlfriend at the airport.
Today a series of unlikely events is about to occur.
This is just the beginning of a six-book adventure that entangles the reader in life, love, and honor.
This is a book that deals
*Celebrity and Military clean romance
*Alternate Timeline Military Secrets
*Friends to lovers clean romance
*True Identifies withheld from each other
*Cliff hangers endings resolved in the next book
*A series of six books that build on each other
*An uncaring stepmother
*Overcoming illness
*Unfinished business
373 pages, Paperback
Published September 22, 2022
About the author
Em Brooks
44 books5 followersEm Brooks is an author of fiction. Her books are an adventure intertwined with clean romance, mystery, and unexpected twists.
Em found a passion for writing at a young age but has only just begun to share her writing with the public. She has done many things in her life, including being a ballroom dance instructor, being a background investigator, and doing historical research. Her debut novel is Along the Way was a story that was 20 years in the making. She followed that series up with the Portrait of an Unlikely Affair series, which was 35 years in progress. She is a wife and a mother, busily homeschooling three children and writing in her spare time.
As a self-published author, Em deeply appreciates your interest in her writing and supporting her calling in life. So far she has ten books available for purchase with more in progress! Follow her here, or find her on Facebook: Facebook.com/TheAuthorEmBrooks and Instagram: instagram.com/TheAuthorEmBrooks
Learn more at www.TheAuthorEmBrooks.com
Em found a passion for writing at a young age but has only just begun to share her writing with the public. She has done many things in her life, including being a ballroom dance instructor, being a background investigator, and doing historical research. Her debut novel is Along the Way was a story that was 20 years in the making. She followed that series up with the Portrait of an Unlikely Affair series, which was 35 years in progress. She is a wife and a mother, busily homeschooling three children and writing in her spare time.
As a self-published author, Em deeply appreciates your interest in her writing and supporting her calling in life. So far she has ten books available for purchase with more in progress! Follow her here, or find her on Facebook: Facebook.com/TheAuthorEmBrooks and Instagram: instagram.com/TheAuthorEmBrooks
Learn more at www.TheAuthorEmBrooks.com
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