What We Do For Love
by Anne Pfeffer
Publication date: May 21st 2019
Genres: Adult, Contemporary
Thirty-eight year old Nicole Adams has given up on finding love. Instead, the single mother focuses on the things she cherishes most—her sixteen-year old son Justin, her friends, and her art.
When she convinces a prominent Los Angeles museum to feature a piece of her work, a large-scale installation, she thinks her life has finally turned a corner.
Then Justin brings a girl, Daniela, home to live with them. Daniela’s angry parents have thrown her out of the house, because she’s pregnant with Justin’s child. Shattered, Nicole takes Daniela in and, in so doing, is drawn into the inner circle of Daniela’s family—a frightening world of deceit and violence.
Nicole struggles to keep life going as normal. Forced to deal with people she doesn’t trust or like, fearful for the future of both her son and the grandchild they’re expecting, Nicole wonders if she can do what she tells Justin to do: always have faith in yourself and do the right thing.
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What We Do for Love won the Chick Lit category of the 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and finalist for Best Cover Design/Fiction!
Danielle's Review
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What We Do For Love is a story of a mother's fight for her family.
Nicole is the single mother of a 16-year-old son that brings a girl home out of the blue and announces she's carrying his child...her grandchild. Now she finds herself suddenly trying to navigate a new world completely unsure of which direction to go that leads to the best possible place for everyone.
Along the way we watch as she realizes the love she has for her best friend isn't just platonic.
I didn't love this story, I tried to I just couldn't. The thing that turned me off repeatedly was talk of bringing the knocked-up teen to Planned Parenthood for guidance and prenatal care. HAH! What a load of crap!? We all know what they do there, so trying to enjoy a book that promotes aborting a new life killed any desire I had to even finish the story. I did, however, finish the story. Overall, the plot was okay, a nice change from your typical romance where the focus really is on the heroine's personal struggles and her love life played just a small role.
Author Bio:Hi! I grew up in the desert around Phoenix, Arizona, where I had a bay quarter horse named Dolly. If I wasn't riding, I was holed up somewhere reading Laura Ingalls Wilder or the Oz books or, later on, Jane Eyre and The Grapes of Wrath. Horses eventually faded as an interest, but I ended up with a lifelong love of books and reading.After college and eight years of living in cold places like Chicago and New York, I escaped back to the land of sunshine. I now live in California, one mile from the Pacific Ocean, with my dachshund Taco. I have worked in banking and as a pro bono attorney, doing adoptions and guardianships for abandoned children.As a writer, I'd always been interested in children's books, since they had meant so much to me as a kid. I've found I especially like writing books about teens and twenty-somethings, an age where you make so many decisions about who you are and how you want to spend your life.I love hearing from readers, so please write to me any time at my website www.annepfeffer.com.
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