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Fade To Black - Debut Novel By Morgan Kearns

If your looking for a romance, where not to much happens and everything ends perfectly, Fade To Black is not the book your probably gonna enjoy...things happen to these very real people...

Fade to Black grabbed me from the very first sentence, "Was it possible to be perfectly content and nervous as hell all at the same time?" And did not let me go...each page, I wanted to read further, I actually MADE myself stop, sleep, stop, eat...ect. I did not want to just plow though it! It had me, laughing out loud (seriously, many people thought I was nuts in the park I was at), it had me balling, not just crying - nooooo balling my eyes out...it left me feeling like I could feel these people, like I knew these people, these characters...it's a strong book to leave you feeling like that.

Fade to Black is a story of 2 people who "can't" fall in love with each other...The spicy, over confident Kate, is in love with Jesse, the sometimes sweet but all the time jealous, man of her dreams. Then there's romantic, thoughtful Rich whose wife Shea is a disaster waiting to happen, abusive is a "nice" word for her.

However, Rich was taught that once your married, your married - you do everything you can to push though any problems, but to be honest, he's been sleeping in his locked den for nearly a year, dreading any and all contact with Shea. He can't seem to bring himself to demand (or even ask for) a divorce, no matter what all his friends are saying.

Enter Kate...very in love with Jesse, she's been dating him off and on for 10 years, though he has not proposed yet...Kate's sure it's gonna happen soon. He moved to be with her, he tells her he loves her at least 100 times a day, he is always jealous of someone (which is just a sign of true love right?)...No matter what Kate knows he loves her, and she loves him.

However, when she meets Rich, on her first day at her new job as journalists for KHB, (her next big step up on the latter to becoming anchor woman), Kate does not understand the feelings she is having for Rich. She knows she's already found the man for her - the "only" one in this world meant for only her, so how can she be having these feelings, for a man she does not even know?

A true love story, with a dramatic and devastating twist...Being in love is not always easy and Kate, Jessie, Rich and Shea are beginning to see just that, no one could have predicted the devastating turn these characters face with-in the pages of Fade to Black. No one comes away from this story unscathed...

I hesitate to write more, I don't want to spoil the amazing ending - and the ending starts in the middle *smile* - all I can say is it's worth your time, just sitting here writing the review, I am in tears...and to understand why you just gotta read it!

Morgan Kearns created these characters, with rich amazing dialog, honestly I don't think I have ever read a book with so much dialog, and it's brilliantly written. The book often switches prospective, which I love! But don't worry, Morgan does an amazing job making sure we, as the reader, knows exactly "whose talking" - most of the book is written either from Rich or Kate's POV but you get the occasional tasty tidbit from Jesse, and Shea.

In the end, Fade to Black is an amazingly powerful love story, one I will not soon forget. A story that shows you just how possible it is to love to people at the same time, and just how destructive that can be. Amazingly written, by first time novelist Morgan Kearns, Fade to Black is not a book you should miss, if your even a little bit of a "romantic." I give it a 5+ stars... You can win your very own signed copy if you click here!


P.S. I just have to say this, I loved it Morgan dedicated the book to Rich, Kate and Jesse, for sharing there story with her. How sweet is that?

~ "OK people, Let's Cover The Black," said Dale