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Standing in the Shadows of Love

Debut author Nina Corbett takes us deep inside the lives and loves of an irresistible pair of intelligent, beautiful women in this delightfully plotted novel that offers a thoroughly engaging, refreshingly unvarnished view of what romance looks like on the other side of thirty. Ashley is thirty-five, single, and way past fed up with waiting on Mister Right. Anxious to have a baby, she secretly goes to a sperm bank--knowing her decision will be met with heated opposition by her friends and family, particularly her mother. Nothing Ashley does ever seems to please her. Ashley is tired of the way her mother dotes on her younger sister, who has been blessed with a wonderful husband and beautiful child. Although Ashley has enjoyed fabulous success as the producer of a morning talk show, she feels disappointed with her personal life. So why wait for a man?

Things get more complicated, when Ashley's mother sets up a blind date for her daughter with Kevin, a supervisor at the phone company, Ashley's first reaction is to retreat. After all, she figures, it will be much easier to simply push this guy away right off the bat and save herself from yet another round of heartache and dashed hopes. But as soon as she meets Kevin, Ashley finds that all of her well-honed self-defense mechanisms have suddenly shut down....

Maya works as an audience coordinator for a popular game show. She's quite happy with the way her career is progressing, but her love life feels incomplete. Maya has been seeing David for several years, but she can't help believing that there's something better out there waiting for her. She's thirty now, and after all the time she's invested in the relationship, she's reluctant to break it off. But David's controlling, obsessive side has grown more pronounced over the years, and Maya can no longer simply ignore it. When she finally takes the leap of faith and breaks it off, Maya is exhilarated when she meets a new guy who is more than happy to treat her right. But when an unexpected family event occurs, everything in her life gets turned upside down.