Women’s Fiction
Date Published: 05-16-2023
Publisher: Creative James Media
When a career-ending injury and a messy breakup send prima ballerina Daniela Verdi back to Queens, New York, she fills her days with countless distractions: meaningless sex, pinot grigio, and video games.
It takes a chance meeting with her brother’s best friend, Vincent LaBate, for her to remember who she was before the stage lights and distractions of the Upper West Side. She’s convinced that Vincent could never love a girl like her: broken, insecure, and stumbling her way through life. What Daniela didn’t count on is that Vincent is as scarred as she is after divorcing his cheating wife and going through an equally messy child custody fight. Soon enough, old vulnerabilities rear their ugly heads, opening a crack in Daniela’s perfectly imperfect romance.
As Daniela and Vincent’s relationship develops, will Daniela learn to accept that a dream life isn’t all it’s cracked up to be?
About the Author
After declaring herself a pretty pink princess during her first ballet
class, Rachel dreamt of sugarplums and began pirouetting her way through
life. While studying to become a ballerina, she compulsively read books
under her covers by flashlight and scribbled in spiral-bound notebooks. The
urge to tell stories culminated in her graduation from Columbia College
Chicago with a B.F.A. in fiction writing.
Never one to keep her feet on the ground, she traveled the world from
Prague to Cape Town. Once settled back in Queens, she dabbled in journalism
before working as an Editorial Assistant for a medical publisher. Seeking a
more fulfilling career, she earned her MAT from Queens College and currently
works as an English teacher in an alternative program in NYC.
Rachel spends her time sipping coffee, trying to cook, and practicing her
pirouettes. She currently resides in Freeport, Long Island.
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