Reuniting with your first love - fiction or reality?

Coming out soon!

We all carry memories of our first love, that cute boy  or girl who caught our eye when we were young and foolish, and without a care for tomorrow. Remember those days? There are those who say you can never go back. For Jamie and Aidan, the heroes of my new book No Regrets, this just is not true.

Sometimes, the happily ever after takes time. Lots of time. Sometimes, we get it right the first time but the timing does not cooperate with our hearts. So, we anguish over our lost love, move on to adult responsibilities: work, maybe college, career, building a stable life and one day we wake up feeling a loss of what we gave up so many years ago. Most of us move on, meet someone new and even marry and have children. But let's face it, there is always nostalgia for your first love- that love that lives forever in your heart- with qualities he may or may not still have. Such is young love, so optimistic and promising- with today never ending and mundane life never intervening.

I have heard of people finding their first love again ten years later, thirty years later, or even fifty years later! Sometimes, someone makes a mark on your heart, and they never leave it. So, it is with Jamie and Aidan, the heroes of my book No Regrets. It has been fifteen years since Jamie has laid eyes on her hometown of Seabrook, Florida. And fifteen years since she has laid eyes on her first and only love, Aidan Brice. Now all grown up and both battered by tragedies, they have grown into different people. Aidan has grown cynical and mistrustful due to his experiences. Jamie has grown closed and detached from her own life challenges. But despite their suffering and the changes it has wrought in them, their love remains a burning flame that no amount of time or tragedy can diminish. When they are finally reunited, events take place that would once again tear them apart. But, as we will see while we take that journey with Jamie and Aidan, love truly conquers all.

Reunion romances, whether fictional or real, are undeniable in their appeal because we have all had first loves that we feel nostalgic for, despite the fact that we may be married to someone else, have 4 kids, 3 cats and 2 dogs. And a mini-van or two. Or we could be single and nostalgic for a time when life was simpler and love was pure and easy. In reality, most of us wouldn't want to or couldn't reunite with our high school sweetheart. Let's be honest, most of us have moved on and are happily engaged in our busy lives, with or without someone else. But the appeal of sitting down with a Reunion romance novel and indulging in a little fantasy is irresistible- and there's nothing wrong with that, is there?