A Little Love Story
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5.0 • 4 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Selected as one of the "10 Wonderful Romance Novels" by Good Housekeeping magazine, A Little Love Story is a sometimes poignant, sometimes hilarious tale of attraction and loyalty, jealousy and grief. It's a classic love story—with some modern twists. Janet Rossi is a very smart aide to the governor of Massachusetts, but she suffers from an illness that makes her, as she puts it, “not exactly a good long-term investment.” Jake Entwhistle is a few years older, a carpenter and portrait painter, also smart—but with a shadow over his romantic history. After meeting when Janet accidentally backs into Jake’s antique truck, they begin a love affair marked by courage, humor, a deep and erotic intimacy . . . and modern complications. “Thoughtful, restrained (yet very sexy). . . . Roland Merullo captures what it feels like when you meet 'the one'–and what you’re willing to do to hold onto that person,” wrote The New York Times.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Merullo, author of the Revere Beach series, starts out with a hoary clich : Jake Entwhistle, on the one-year anniversary of his girlfriend's death, goes out for a doughnut, and his '49 Dodge truck gets smashed in the parking lot by cowboy-booted, 27-year-old Janet Rossi. Chemistry wins out over a series of first-date pratfalls, and Entwhistle, a handsome, successful painter, finds himself smitten. Rossi, however, has cystic fibrosis, and Merullo does his best work in the deceptively lighthearted chapters that follow the lovers trying to shed their romantic baggage on top of dealing with Rossi's illness. Entwhistle must overcome his jealousy over Rossi's affair with the governor of Massachusetts (she's still his aide), and he must also finally mourn the late Giselle (an attendant on the flight that went down in Pennsylvania on 9/11). Rossi's debilitating disease quickly sends her into a tailspin; Jake tries to pull together lung donors and a "psycho-genius" doctor for an operation that could save Rossi's life. Merullo counters the cardboard morbidity and overdetermined incidentals with considerable emotional depth, making this a solid romance. (On sale Aug. 9)
Customer Reviews
A Story of Substance
One of my favorite authors…a thought provoking story that stays with you after reading as all good books do. It makes you think about what love is, in its purest form with any relationship. Loved it!