Life is a game of winning and losing. Some are players; some are pawns.
However, players face hard truths. Players take risks. Pawns get used. When Senna was thrown away by her girlfriend, she not only lost love, but her confidant, Zhang Wei, as well. Used to only being the pawn, Zhang Wei and Senna must forget their friendship; after all, only players take what they want. With life and love on the line, can the sudden emergence of a peculiar key player, turn the tables in their favor?
In a whirlwind of self-discovery, Senna and Zhang Wei must navigate through family, love, addiction, and loss. But, through the haze of sacrifice and success, one person's greed threatens to raze everything, forcing these friends back together under tumultuous circumstances. It's time to step into their fated roles, propelling those who would see them fail, into Checkmate...
Mrs Julia Robinson, the wife of American figure skating Olympian Adrian Robinson, is nervous about finally meeting her husband's family. After two years of marriage living in Amsterdam, they've decided it's time to move back to Virginia and give Julia the opportunity to meet the rest of her husband's family. The most important of them all is his close sister and best friend, Adreanna Jones.
The flight to Virginia was long, but the car ride to Adreanna's house was short. Despite the short distance, the couple never made it there.
Julia wakes up in a hospital, broken and alone. She learnt that they'd been in an accident that claimed her husband's life and sent her into a coma for 12 days. Heartbroken, depressed and disabled, she found herself stranded in a foreign country with no one to lean on.
Or so she thought.
Adreanna loved her brother more than anyone in the world. He was her father, mother, and best friend. He was her everything. Then he was gone. Julia was the closest thing left to her brother. Adreanna's intentions were to just get to know the woman her brother married, look after her on his behalf until she could look after herself again and eventually return home. But life wiped out those plans before they even cemented as the two women, in a time of hurt and grief, seeking closure, companionship and love, formed a bond they didn't even realise was growing until it was too late.
Now they're stuck at a crossroads, having to decide between love and ethics.
The sequel to Drea is out now. It is called Mrs Jones. You can find it on my profile. <3