Title: A Distant Shore
Author: Mariam Kobras
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Independent Publisher Book Award for Romance
Amazon #1 Bestseller - Contemporary Romance
There's nothing like receiving a letter from a teenage son you knew nothing about, but that's what happens to international rock star, Jonathon Stone. He drops everything to find the boy, and his mother—Naomi, the girl he loved so many years ago who left him when his rock n’ roll life became too much for her to bear.
Seeing her is like falling in love all over again, and everything seems perfect, until someone sets out to destroy their idyllic life.
Author Bio
Three-time Independent Publisher's Book Award Winner, Mariam was born in Frankfurt, Germany. Growing up, she and her family lived in Brazil and Saudi Arabia before they decided to settle in Germany. Mariam attended school there and studied American Literature and Psychology at Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen. Today she lives and writes in Hamburg, Germany, with her husband, two sons, and two cats.
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Book Excerpt
He wandered over to the desk and looked down at it, clean and orderly in a way it had never been when he had inhabited this room. He moved his hand across the wood. “I used to sit here staring out the window, and instead of studying my Latin I’d be scribbling disgusting, sentimental lyrics, a young boy’s fantasies of his one perfect love, the one you would recognize in an instant, one glance, and know for sure she was the right one.”
“As far as I can see, you’re still doing it today,” Naomi murmured, but he heard her.
“Of course!” He turned back to her with a smile. “Of course I am, because it still confounds me that such a thing is possible. I’ve never overcome the miracle of our first meeting. That is a bone I’ve been chewing on for years now, and I’ve still not found the marrow. It’s irrational and confusing, but there it is: it has never left me alone, this thought that I’m not entitled to receive this special grace. And maybe there’s some truth to that because I lost you soon enough, wasn’t able to hold on to you. I knew it had to be you, and yet I did nothing to make sure of you. My punishment and I accept it.”
“Here you go again.” She sighed. “You are such a hopeless fool. A romantic, hopeless, and wonderful fool. Let’s go back down. I want to meet the rest of your family. I love your mother, by the way.”
“Told you.” His grin was wide and quite smug.
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