Life is practically perfect for Patience Hampton. She enjoys her challenging work as a voice actor, has a supportive network of family and friends, and is expecting a proposal from her long-term boyfriend, Daniel. But, when Patience is blindsided with shocking news, in an instant, everything she’s placed her trust in comes crashing down.
While recovering from her explosive breakup, Patience is finally determined to focus on defining happiness. So, when she crosses paths with Mr. Charisma, Lennox Davenport, while on a business trip out of town, she’s open to spending the night with the handsome stranger. Lennox is everything Patience didn’t know she needed: assertive, encouraging, inquisitive, and has a sex appeal that leaves her senseless. As their interactions quickly intensify, she realizes she doesn’t know herself at all.
Patience wants much more from her casual relationship with Lennox and begins recognizing how the relationship residue left by an absent father and a manipulative ex poses harm to her growth, healing, and happiness. Is she ready to finally release her emotional baggage and love freely? Or will her toxic habits resurface to sabotage yet another chance of finding real love with the man who has finally managed to behold her beauty within?
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Zariah L. Banks is an emotional intimacy novelist who focuses on contemporary dating topics, vulnerability, and nurturing intimacy in long-term relationships to improve communication and prevent emotional and physical transgressions in romantic relationships. Zariah feels everyone deserves to be loved, regardless of trauma or challenges that may lie in their future. She believes there is someone out there who will love us for exactly who we are, but the journey isn’t about finding them. The journey is about healing and becoming our best selves so that we can better enjoy and appreciate them when our paths cross. She uses messy main characters to create casual romance stories that are both entertaining and relatable for her readers. In her free time, Zariah enjoys reading, cooking, binging reality shows, and doing puzzles with a glass of wine. She lives in Northeast Ohio with her husband and two children where she is currently working on the third novel of the Beauty is Her Name series.