By Tumika
Cain
When a Man
Loves a Woman: A Love Divine, is a story of hope, accepting love, embracing
one’s personal truths, and making no apologies for it.
Synopsis
Jacquie
remembered a time when she was once a tender, caring, hopeless romantic. But happily-ever-after’s and once-upon-a-time
fairytales, proved over time to be just that – fairytales. After what she feels has been “a lifetime” of
true love eluding her, she loses all hope, resigning to live a single (and
loveless) existence. As time passes, she shifts her focus, choosing to
concentrate on her career and makes the best of it…alone.
Gorgeous,
artsy and charismatic was the man who Jacquie’s eyes fell upon, causing her
heart to beat in a rhythm she’d forgotten existed. Michael was more than enough man to make her
lose herself inside dreams of a future interwoven with the very fabric of all
that defined the beauty of being in love.
But just
like in fairytales, there’s always something out of place. For alas, this knight in chocolate armor, was
twelve years her junior – an age gap that defined a cultural difference and a
major problem for Jacquie’s overbearing mother.
Will pressure from family and other obligations turn their love into a
nightmare? Or can Michael and Jacquie tune out the rest of the world, embrace
the sweetness that they share, and build a foundation that lasts?
In book two
of the series, When a Man Loves a Woman: A Love Divine, is a story of hope,
accepting love, embracing one’s personal truths, and making no apologies for
it.
Meet The
Characters
Meet
Jacquie: She's a beautiful, single, almost 40 year old BBW who has never been
married, has no children and has given up hope that it will ever happen for
her. A real salt of the earth type of woman, she's gentle, loyal, loving...and
unfortunately, unfulfilled in her carefully controlled existence. Will she ever
be able to see her dreams fulfilled?
Meet
Michael: He is young, gorgeous, artsy and free. A real solid individual, he's
all about his business and not playing any games. Having a relationship is also
the farthest thing from his mind! And then he meets Jacquie...
For Jacquie,
Michael is everything she's been told she should stay away from. For Michael,
Jacquie is the dream he didn't even realize he was waiting to come true.
Excerpt
Jacquie
didn’t know exactly when it happened. She just knew that it did. She found
herself in love. And what was funniest of all was how different he was than
what she’d always thought she wanted or been told she should want. He was
twelve years her junior, but more man than anyone who had ever come before him.
Dealing with him was like a welcomed cool lakeside breeze on a scorching summer
day.
Michael was everything
she’d ever dreamed of, but didn’t know that she needed or wanted. Tender.
Sweet. Attentive. Strong, but not overbearing. All things cool. So opposite of
her in many ways, yet so like her in many ways that mattered. It was a perfect
fit.
There was a
vibrancy about him that instantly caused everything in her to perk up and take
notice. He made her want to wear bright colored clothing and flowers in her
hair. Big hoop earrings and sexy sandals to show off blood red toenails and
fresh pedicures. This was such a huge shift for her. Always prone to muted
colors and conservative clothing, she had been raised to subdue everything
about herself, almost to the point of extinction of her authentic self. At
times she didn't quite know what to make of the changes taking place in her
life. When it became scary, she urged herself to press on pass the fear. This
was such a great time to be alive, and for the first time in her life, she
actually found that she was happy to be in the land of the living.
It’s funny,
but she hadn’t realized how much of a drag her life was until being in his
presence made her feel so alive. Made her wonder how long had she been walking
around half dead just waiting on someone to breathe life into her. Well,
whatever he had, made her spirit soar high above the clouds. In his presence,
she became a bird; free to roam, to fly unhindered, to just be. He was the key
that unlocked the cage she’d lived in her entire life. Suddenly, she felt years
younger. Almost how the teenage years should have been if she hadn’t been so
bogged down with responsibilities and pressures. Finally, she felt like other
girls looked: youthful, carefree, lovely. She was loving every minute of it!
Old
behaviors didn’t just disappear overnight. The practicalities making up her
personality were still very much alive and at work. What was different was a
newness to get out from under the mundane and do something…anything!…new. This
new found state put her in a place where she could dream again. Come to think
of it, she couldn’t remember the last time she’d dreamed about doing anything.
Clueless as to how to change her life, the dreams slowly faded away like the
last refrain of a song. Repeat, repeat, then fade, fade, fade until finally it
was gone. Over. Finito. That’s what happened to Jacquie. Her dreams had died
into the empty pause that lives between songs. He was her new song.
This season
would start with a fresh hairdo. The signature wrap, although lovely and
perfectly coiffed, would have to go. Surely she could find some sort of
sweeping updo that could be versatile enough for both day and night, work and
play. Until the right look came along, Jacquie found herself really studying
the looks of other women who had some of what she felt being birthed in her
spirit. That’s what made her decide to finally let the soft coral nail color go
in search of something vibrant and popping. Yep….fire engine red. How about
that?! She found a similar color for her lips, as well as a plum, bronze and a
translucent shade to switch up her looks.
Clothing was
next. Flirty skirts, fitted tops, and big belts replaced stiff suits and
pleated pants. And for leisure, she went all out. Wide-legged pants, fitted
jeans, long tops, high heeled boots, funky jewelry. She was absolutely loving
this transformation. Her new colors were extreme. Orange, fuchsia, lime green,
hot pink, reds, plums, emeralds, bronze, cobalt – even in the winter. A host of
jewel tones to help celebrate her new found Queendom. Yes, it was high time a
daughter of royalty looked like one. She had been a King’s kid living beneath
her privilege for far too long.
Meet Tumika
Tumika
Patrice Cain is an award-winning author and media personality whose works center
around the complexities of the human experience. Through her writing she takes
a global look at issues that affect women and crafts authentic, well-rounded
characters and plots so rich that are so relatable they feel like personal
friends to the readers. She is also the founder of Say What?? Book club, book
reviewer, contributing writer for The Belief Magazine, and former
columnist/book reviewer for PEN'Ashe Magazine. Her works center around the
complexities of the human experience and in uplifting the spirit. An assignment
for a second grade class sparked her interest in writing that would quickly
become her raison d'etre. As an educator, she wholeheartedly believes that each
one should reach one; each one should teach one. Tumika is also a respected editor
and publisher. When she is not writing, she may be found teaching writer's
workshops, blogging, volunteering, and otherwise beautifying the world around
her. She is the author of the award winning novel, When a Man Loves a Woman: A
Season of Change; After the Rain...a Poetry Collective; and The Heart of a
Woman: Poetry, Short Stories & Tekaisms. Book 2 of the When a Man Loves a
Woman series will be released in April 2016. Her works have been published in a
number of anthologies, magazines and periodicals. You may follow her on
Facebook: Tumika Patrice Cain and on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest &
Goodreads: @TumikaPatrice. www.TumikaPatrice.com
Tumika
Patrice Cain is changing lives one word at a time...
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