Moonlight Over The Loveless Motel: A Stephen St. James Romance

When it comes to love, it’s never too late…

Thursday should have been the happiest day of Nathan Gardner’s life. The company he started over twenty years ago has just been acquired in a friendly takeover. Single, healthy, and barely middle-aged, Nate can retire with millions in the bank. His employees love him. He’s a pillar of the community. There are still a couple of weeks of spring skiing left. Life is wonderful.

Then he gets the call: his oldest and once-best friend back home in rural Tennessee—Jake Fillmore—committed suicide a couple of months ago.

Jake and Nathan—the two oddball nerds back in high school—had been so close they could finish each other’s sentences. But when they both fell in love with the same girl, Alice Spence, a gap widened between them that never closed again.

Jake got the girl and Nathan got the scholarship to Colorado State University in Boulder, where he discovered a talent for business and technology that would make him more successful than anyone back home had ever imagined possible.

The last thing Nate wants to do is go back to Benton Creek, Tennessee. He’s spent his whole life trying to escape the poverty he suffered there. But now Alice, widowed and bankrupt, needs help.

Nathan journeys back to the place he least wants to be. In doing so, he confronts his long-buried feelings for Alice and his own loneliness. He also makes a discovery that changes his life forever: when it comes to love, it’s never too late.

Stephen St. James is the pseudonym of the Edgar and Shamus Award-winning author Steven Womack. This is his first foray into the romance genre.