Lovers and Strangers
Lovers & Strangers
The Hollywood Nights Series
Book One
by
Candace Schuler
Bestselling, award-winning Author
LOVERS & STRANGERS
Reviews & Accolades
5 Stars – A Little Romance
REVIEWS
"...characters are deeply motivated, emotional people."
~Inside Romance
"Candace Schuler challenges the reader to feel—love, pain, sympathy and compassion."
~A Little Romance
"Passion, trust, and love go hand-in-hand in this story of two remarkable people who, somehow, in this great big world, find each other."
~Rendezvous
"A romantic portrait of two people who find meaning in their love for one another."
~Romantic Times
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Dear Reader,
The genesis of the Hollywood Nights Series sprang from the perennial writer's game of "What if?" Writers play this game all the time, usually when they are trying to come up with the plot for their next book, or trying to figure out where to take the plot in the book they're currently working on. At least, I do.
Hollywood Nights began with a simple "What if?" question. What if a group of seemingly disparate characters were bound together by a tragedy in their past? And what if that tragedy was shrouded in mystery? And what if what happened changed all their lives? And what if... You see where this is going.
Lovers and Strangers
, the first book in the Hollywood Nights Series,
is the story of Jack Shannon, a cynical, world-weary reporter who's spent the past 25 years blaming himself for his brother's suicide during a wild party at the infamous Wilshire Arms. In a last ditch effort to purge his guilt, Jack returns to the place where it all happened. There he meets sweet, guileless, innocent Faith McCray, newly arrived in L.A. from a small town in Georgia. Faith is everything Jack wants—and everything he thinks he doesn't deserve. She also has a few secrets of her own...
I hope you enjoy finding out what Faith's secrets are and how Jack is finally able to lay the ghost of his long-dead brother to rest. And how, in the process, they realize that sometimes two people who are all wrong for each other are the only two people who can make everything all right.
Happy Reading,
Candace
Prologue