Once And Forever Love - Tapa blanda

Jeanie Ashford sits swinging and reminiscing back through her life of jealousy, hurt, hard work, demoralization and the most sensual love imaginable. She first thinks about a young marriage right out of high school that produced a lovely daughter the following year, but it was a marriage where the husband could not control his jealousy. That caused Jeanie to turn to a promiscuous behavior searching for a love she longed for and never had. Her look back takes you on a journey through Miamisburg and West Carrollton, Ohio; Bristol, Florida; Tucson, Arizona and Anchorage, Alaska. Six different jobs and five different men that she could remember. Then she meets a young police officer in her late twenty's that stole her heart, body, and soul. A lot of misunderstandings, lack of communication, and separate marriages drove them apart but she could never forget him. After a divorce in her first marriage, she enters a second marriage based on strong feelings of wanting to be able to support her young daughter, which she was afraid she couldn't do alone, and that marriage lasted twenty five years. On the twenty-sixth year and having this overwhelming longing for a love she once knew and so very much wanted to experience again, Jeanie embarked on a very dangerous mission.

D.J.Phillabaum is a freelance writer living in Compass Lake in the Hills, Florida and has resided in the panhandle since 1979. She was born in Ohio, lived and went to school there as well as California and Arizona. "Once and Forever Love" is her first novel. She had only minimal experience in writing while attending Woodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, California where she was on the production staff of the school paper, The Loudspeaker. She had two years of journalism, linotype, and photography and carried a 4.3 grade average. After being an executive secretary for the federal government she became an entrepreneur in various self-employed businesses including a motel, a neighborhood bar, semi-truck driving, straight truck driving, dump trucks, and rental apartments. In writing about the states she has been in and jobs she has experienced, Jeanie is not her, nor are the other characters meant to portray members of her family or friends.