ISBN: 0-88739-249-0
320 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 7/2000
Paperback Original
Price: $15.95
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Romantic Standards
Mitchell Strand
Tom O'Leary, a young, well-respected restaurant manager, is watching passersby in the city one day when he spots a face so beautiful he is transfixed. For one moment Grace MacPherson, a married woman with grown children, looks back at him, and time stops, if just for a moment. But she keeps walking. Months later, Tom's employees present him with a grand piano to serenade the diners with while they enjoy the beautiful view. When the hired pianist shows up to play, it's none other than Grace, and she and Tom find themselves reliving their "city moment." Romantic Standards is the story of Tom and Grace's illicit love, how it affects the rest of their lives, and how life will go on, even if their love cannot.
"'Tom, it's Grace.'
"She smiled, amused both at the speed with which Tom buzzed the door unlocked and at the urgency with which she pulled the door open. As she stepped inside, she visualized his hand moving to the button out of a reflex newly acquired by anxious waiting. Scaling the steps, feeling their brand-new rubber gripping her shoes as if to restrain her, she wondered whether he would come out to meet her or stay behind his door, trying to concoct a reason to stop this before it started.
"She reached his door and knocked before her conscience could even try to wake up. A strong, tingling tremor coursed through her body as she heard unnaturally measured footsteps, approaching from within. She watched the doorknob turn and looked up, wondering if this was what facing a firing squad was like."
Review: "A romance that transcends generations... colored in vibrant hues of irresistible passion."
-Anoka, Minnesota Coon Rapids Herald
Bio: MITCHELL STRAND earned a BA in History from the St. Cloud State University. He is currently working on his second novel.
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