Against My Better Judgment
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Against My Better Judgment is my debut book and was released on September 16, 2020 by The Wild Rose Press.
[2021 GRAND PRIZE FINALIST, Honorable Mention in Crime/Mystery, and First Horizon Award Finalist, The Eric Hoffer Awards]
[2021 Heart Award Finalist for YA Romance, Oklahoma Romance Writers Guild]
[2017 ShoreIndie Contest Semifinalist]
[Summer Awards 2017 Winner - Humor]
[2nd Place Heavenly Awards 2017 - ChickLit/General Fiction]
[NBR Spotlighted Chapter]
[A WP FEATURED STORY]
SARA DONOVAN is a nineteen-year-old business major at the University of Alabama with observation skills bordering on stalking and a pregnant imagination ready for Lamaze class. Her passion, kaleidoscope world view and fertile imagination combine to produce an uncanny knack for being right-but wrong. For most people, things can't get much worse than outing a gun-packing hijacker who turns out to be-The Air Marshal. Unless you're Sara. For her, it gets much worse.
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