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T. L. COOPER |
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About the Author. . . T. L. Cooper grew up in Tollesboro, Kentucky. She graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a B.S. in Corrections and Juvenile Services and a minor in Psychology. Her short story, "Fortress," won second prize in the Professional Division of Idaho Magazine's 2005 Fiction Writing contest. She has published several poems in anthologies including Happiness in Standing, Poetry By Idaho Women (2004 edition), a short story on an online magazine, and contributed to Book Marketing from A - Z. She is the author of the novel, All She Ever Wanted. Currently, she lives with her husband in Boise, Idaho. A description of All She Ever Wanted by T. L. Cooper a brief excerpt appear below. |
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Featured Book: All She Ever Wanted ISBN: 1-4010-3986-3 (softcover) Price: $26.99 ISBN: 1-4010-3987-1 (hardcover) Price: $36.99 Publisher: Xlibris (2002) 1-888-795-4274 www.xlibris.com Sources for books by this author: Direct from the author - www.tlcooper.com Books are available from www.xlibris.com, www.amazon.com, www.bn.com and www.tatteredcover.com. Discounts are available when purchased through Xlibris or the author. For discounts through the author, go to www.tlcooper.com. Contact this author: E-mail: tlcooper@tlcooper.com www.tlcooper.com |
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All She Ever Wanted by T. L. Cooper
Book Description
In All She Ever Wanted, Victoria strives for the success she believes will earn
her parents pride while struggling to maintain her relationship with Daryn. With him, she faces the
prejudices of family, friends, and lovers.
All She Ever Wanted by T. L. Cooper begins as follows:
Heads turned as Victoria stepped into the ballroom and stopped to survey the crowd. She radiated the confidence of a woman who never feels the need to think about her astounding beauty. She felt eyes on her as she started across the room. Her long black hair brushing her back just above the top of the back of her red curve hugging halter formal gown. She glanced toward a window and caught a glimpse of her heart shaped face with its flawless skin and her brilliant green eyes. She smiled impulsively suddenly seeing just how far she had come from that girl struggling to be noticed, to be recognized. The image staring back at her shocked her as the eyes clouded over with an emptiness she couldn’t define, an emptiness she didn’t want to acknowledge. Victoria couldn’t believe all these people were there to celebrate her fortieth birthday. If only they knew how she felt about parties not to mention about how she felt about most of them. She looked around the room for what must have been the hundredth time in less than five minutes. She didn’t know who she was expecting to see. Hoping was a better word. And she did know if only she would let herself realize it. Yet, realizing that would also mean acknowledging the impossibility of her expectation. No, she wouldn’t think about that. Not now. She smiled and shook hands with a few business associates and their spouses. She needed to put on her party face and that took too much focus to be distracted by her thoughts, by things that couldn’t be changed. She never could remember the name of the older man who patted her shoulder as she walked by, but he had been at every one of these parties dating ten years back. ___________________________________________________________________ All She Ever Wanted by T. L. Cooper, (Xlibris ©2002). All rights reserved. |
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