Here Take This and Leave Me Alone: A Reluctant Love Story

by B.L Wilson

Overview

The last name Simmons is a fairly common one, creating confusion in police sergeant Juanita Simmons’ apartment building. When the new neighbor’s mail ends up with Juanita’s, she uses it as an opportunity to meet the gorgeous and shapely Olivia Simmons, an overworked accountant who has recently taken on the added burden of her deceased sister’s three children. Olivia is unimpressed by Juanita, and her rebuffs of Juanita’s attempts at friendship only encourage the irrepressible sergeant to ramp up her efforts, resulting in a confrontation that leads Olivia to file a police report against Juanita. However, when Olivia becomes ill, Juanita steps in, and Olivia begins to slowly let down her guard in this reluctant love story.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153090184
Publisher:	B.L Wilson
Publication date:	07/11/2016
Series:	Summer Reads
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

B.L. has always been in love with books and the words in them. She never thought she could create something with the words she knew. When she read ‘To Kill A Mocking Bird,’ she realized everyday experiences could be written about in a powerful, memorable way. She wasn’t quite sure what to do with that knowledge so she kept on reading. Walter Mosley’s short stories about Easy Rawlins and his friends encouraged BL to start writing in earnest. She felt she had a story to tell…maybe several of them. She’d always kept a diary of some sort, scraps of paper, pocketsize, notepads, blank backs of agency forms, or in the margins of books. It was her habit to make these little notes to herself. She thought someday she’d make them into a book. She wrote a workplace memoir based on the people she met during her 20 years as a property manager of city-owned buildings. Writing the memoir, led her to consider writing books that were not job-related. Once again, she did…producing romance novels with African American lesbians as main characters. She wrote the novels because she couldn’t find stories that matched who she wanted to read about …over forty, African American and female.