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Impractically Yours
Two unmarried mid-lifers must overcome trust issues, a blood sugar problem, and an ill-timed practical joke to keep their special friendship intact and reveal their mutual love.
Ten years after her divorce, forty-year-old María is still distrustful of men. As if that’s not bad enough, her hypoglycemia turns her into a monster anytime she eats too much simple sugar or fails to eat when she’s supposed to.
Fifty-year-old Robbie is a bachelor and a practical joker. Even though he’s also a singer, a guitarist, and a songwriter, an old girlfriend’s betrayal has left him so distrustful of women that he’s no longer willing to share his music with anyone. Especially his new friend María.
Although Robbie and María trust each other enough to become best friends, the secrets each one is still hiding inhibit complete trust, making romance frustratingly slow in coming.
When Robbie plays an unintentionally thoughtless joke on María, it threatens to end their relationship.
Both of them want to save their friendship—and their finally-just-budding romance as well—but their best efforts aren’t working.
Who can bring them together again? Or can anyone?
Ten years after her divorce, forty-year-old María is still distrustful of men. As if that’s not bad enough, her hypoglycemia turns her into a monster anytime she eats too much simple sugar or fails to eat when she’s supposed to.
Fifty-year-old Robbie is a bachelor and a practical joker. Even though he’s also a singer, a guitarist, and a songwriter, an old girlfriend’s betrayal has left him so distrustful of women that he’s no longer willing to share his music with anyone. Especially his new friend María.
Although Robbie and María trust each other enough to become best friends, the secrets each one is still hiding inhibit complete trust, making romance frustratingly slow in coming.
When Robbie plays an unintentionally thoughtless joke on María, it threatens to end their relationship.
Both of them want to save their friendship—and their finally-just-budding romance as well—but their best efforts aren’t working.
Who can bring them together again? Or can anyone?
288 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 23, 2017
About the author
Roger E. Bruner
33 books25 followersFormer English teacher, job counselor/interviewer, and programmer/analyst. Retired at 62 to write full-time.
Roger can't decide which genre he prefers. He's written speculative fiction, contemporary women's fiction, and novels for teens. His current interest is fiction for and about senior adults. All of his twenty-five novels are Christian, however, and are free from objectionable language, sexual content, and gratuitous violence.
Roger plays bass on his church praise team and and publishes the weekly church newsletter. He has also been on mission trips to Australia, England, Wales, Romania, and Nicaragua.
At almost 80 he's still in pretty good health, but stays home a lot more than he used to. He enjoys reading, walking, photography, writing music and recording his own songs at home, and playing Wordler and Quidler with his delightful wife, Kathleen.
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November 10, 2019
Serious, but Fun Story
This story contained humor, friendship, Christian example of how we should respond to others, and enough mystery to keep you interested. I really enjoyed this book.
This story contained humor, friendship, Christian example of how we should respond to others, and enough mystery to keep you interested. I really enjoyed this book.
January 3, 2020
Different, I will say that for it.
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