{"id":11916,"date":"2016-04-21T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T05:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11916"},"modified":"2016-04-09T06:16:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T11:16:03","slug":"r-is-for-romeo-and-juliet-atozchallenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=11916","title":{"rendered":"R is for (The) Rest of My Life #AtoZChallenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-jqhrsAMEhM8\/VsOnnNIlRcI\/AAAAAAAAWbQ\/UpZKqlhz3ec\/s1600\/R.jpg\" alt=\"Rest of my Life\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #361170;\">R is for (The) Rest of my Life by Sheryl Browne<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11794 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rest of my Life\" width=\"626\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover-1.jpg 626w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover-1-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blurb (from Goodreads):<\/strong>\u00a0<span id=\"freeText6568881098758063062\">You can\u2019t run away from commitment forever \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Adam Hamilton-Shaw has more reason than most to avoid commitment. Living on a houseboat in the Severn Valley, his dream is to sail into the sunset \u2013 preferably with a woman waiting in every port. But lately, his life looks more like a road to destruction than an idyllic boat ride\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Would-be screenplay writer Sienna Meadows realises that everything about Adam spells trouble \u2013 but she can\u2019t ignore the feeling that there is more to him than just his bad reputation. Nor can she ignore the intense physical attraction that exists between them.<\/p>\n<p>And it just so happens that Adam sees Sienna as the kind of woman he could commit to. But can he change his damaging behaviour \u2013 or is the road to destruction a one-way street?<span id=\"freeText739770660957995823\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R is for (The) Rest of my Life by Sheryl Browne &nbsp; Blurb (from Goodreads):\u00a0You can\u2019t run away from commitment forever \u2026 Adam Hamilton-Shaw has more reason than most to avoid commitment. 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