Her Confessional #3 Now Available for Pre-Order

I'm thrilled to announce that Her Confessional #3: Playing for Keeps is now available for pre-order exclusively on Amazon, and will be delivered to your Kindle device on September 30!




After months of hiding their engagement to promote a farcical PR relationship tied to Cameron's new movie, Sarah is struggling to remind herself of the benefits of the plan – if only she can make it that long. Having just about reached their breaking point, Cameron proposes a romantic weekend away to re-connect but their boss has a better idea: a two-week trip away from the prying eyes of Hollywood and the PR team’s aggressive gossip machine. 
Once out of the Hollywood spotlight, Cameron reverts back to the loving, attentive man Sarah first fell in love with and idyllic days spent hiking, biking, and surfing lead to sensual nights wrapped in each other’s arms. But when a gossip columnist viciously pegs Sarah as “the other woman,” they’re forced to acknowledge the reality of their situation. Vowing to beat the studio at its own game, Sarah and Cameron openly flaunt their relationship, knowing their actions may mean giving up the careers they both love. 
With help from some new friends along the way, Cameron and Sarah re-discover what matters most as they work to find their happily ever after.
This 53,000-word novella is the third and final installment in the Her Confessional serial 
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 EXCERPT“Despite how it may look to the outside world, I know in my heart we’re not some whirlwind romance. I wanted to be with you for so long and there were times I went weeks on end wishing for your body next to mine at night. But now that I have you, I feel like I’m not living up to my own dreams for how it would be. I told myself that after that first disastrous margarita-fueled night if you forgave me – if you took me back – I’d do everything in my power to be a better man for you. But it seems like no matter how hard I try, I’m being stonewalled at every turn. 
“I sometimes wonder if it wouldn’t have been better for me to keep my feelings to myself – kept my distance – so that you could eventually meet and fall in love with a man who is worthy of you. Someone whose circumstances don’t have you hiding in the shadows. Somehow who goes out of his way to tell everyone how much he loves you, a man who screams from the rooftops how he can’t wait to make you his wife. Instead you’ve got me and I just can’t help but think that maybe you’ve settled for someone who can never be what you need. That you’re wasting your love on me.”
His confession left me breathless. I’d never seen – or heard – Cameron so conflicted about himself, about the decisions that lead him to where we were today. About the rightness of us. Since that night at Zuma Beach he’d been so self-assured, so no-holds-barred when it came to being with me, to getting what he wanted. 
By all accounts we were having a whirlwind romance, and mostly that had been because of how quickly he had moved us from the friend zone to something much more serious. I had never expected he would ask me to marry him, much less for him to have done so that quickly. But now that he had, I couldn’t imagine our relationship being any different. From the moment he had shown up in the parking lot the day he had been cast in The Ties That Bind, he had pursued me with a single-minded passion. While it had been a heady thing that oftentimes left me reeling and looking for some sort of anchor to grab hold of, I couldn’t imagine anything else, how we would have altered our lives just a little bit here and there to slowly – calmly, and in a measured way – make room for a relationship that went from hanging out all the time as friends to becoming lovers. 
I could be honest enough with myself to know that a small adjustment like that wouldn’t have been enough – for either of us. We needed this all-consuming passion like we needed air to breathe. With us it needed to be all or nothing. As difficult as things had been since the night he asked me to marry him, I knew to the depths of my soul that we were doing the right thing – for us. It might not have worked for a different sort of couple – probably wouldn’t have – but this was the relationship we needed. Anything less would have felt like we were short-changing ourselves. 
“Cameron, you have to know that I wouldn’t have wanted anyone else. I’ve loved you for so long that I don’t know who I am without that. There’s no way I could have met and been with someone else. You already lived in here.” I brought my hand flush against my chest and felt my heart beating strong and steady for him. 
“Thank you for loving me. You shouldn’t, but I’m happy you do.” 
I took in Cameron’s face so close to my own and watched the myriad emotions he was experiencing play out in his features. As I stared at him, his eyes turned glassy with a pool of unshed tears, then he took a deep, steadying breath and swiped at his eyes to clear them. “I promise I’ll be a good husband to you.”
I had no doubt of the veracity of his words. I knew that he would be a good husband. We just had to get there first. We would no doubt experience more difficulty ahead, but I felt to the tips of my toes that this time away with him would help me weather any coming storms.
(Excerpt subject to change up until publication day.)