MORE THAN THIS
Margo Candela
Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-4165-7134-6
August 2008
Contemporary Romance

Ever wonder what happens to people who live parallel lives to yours? A series of close calls and missed opportunities keeps two destined lovers apart. Alexander Velazquez and Evelyn Sinclair live parallel, but very different lives. One is an ambitious lawyer from a working class family, the other is a privileged daughter trying to prove to herself and others that she can make it on her own. They work in adjoining office buildings and watch each other through their windows, wishing they each knew the other. But will they ever be at the same place at the same time? Will they ever have the opportunity to meet face to face with their destinies?

MORE THAN THIS is a soft, humorous story of two people who are trying to make the best out of what life has handed them. Alex leaves his long term girlfriend with a ring in his pocket and his clothes in her closet. Evelyn is betrayed by a lover overseas and returns home to regroup. Both find themselves in chance meetings of glimpses of each other. And they long for more. But neither is able to take that one step out on a limb to reach out due to other circumstances. The attraction between them is electric, automatic, and genuine. Page by page, you find yourself cheering them on, hoping that this one social meeting will find them face to face at last. And in the end, you are not disappointed with the merry go round ride that has had them dancing the two step, without ever touching their partner.

Margo Candela is a writer to never forget. Her ability to make her story real, draw in her reader, and leave them satisfied is priceless. Way to go!

Kathy Fisher
Rating: 4 1/2