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    Love After the Gone
    Love After the Gone
    Love After the Gone
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    Love After the Gone

    By Isabella Olivia Ellis

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    One morning, Jeanette Goodwyn wakes up to find every single person in her small town gone. She believes she is the only human being left on Earth and lives a very lonesome couple of months on her own. She is discovered by Evan Grey, a survivor from another state who embarked on a journey to find another living person.

    The two decide to join forces and sustain their lives together. Somewhere in the middle of loneliness and survival, they fall for each other. But in an empty, uncertain world, Jeanette finds herself afraid to love Evan. Do they love each other because they were meant to be together or because they are the only ones left? And what will happen to their relationship if the world changes once more?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEvernight Publishing
    Release dateJul 6, 2012
    ISBN9781771300599
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      Love After the Gone - Isabella Olivia Ellis

      Published by Evernight Publishing at Smashwords

      www.evernightpublishing.com

      Copyright© 2012 Isabella Olivia Ellis

      ISBN: 978-1-77130-059-9

      Cover Artist: Sour Cherry Designs

      Editor: JC Chute

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      WARNING: The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. No part of this book may be used or reproduced electronically or in print without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews.

      This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and places are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      DEDICATION

      For Todd.

      I wish you were still with us.

      LOVE AFTER THE GONE

      Romance on the Go

      Isabella Olivia Ellis

      Copyright © 2012

      Chapter One

      Jeanette Goodwyn walked through the door of Anderson Pharmacy, unzipped the duffel bag she was carrying, and proceeded to stuff it with all the vitamins, painkillers, and antibiotics it could hold. She wasn’t too discerning about what she grabbed. In went every vitamin on the alphabet spectrum, as well as different roots and herbs. Vicodin, Percocet, heavy duty Ibuprofen and any other painkiller names she recognized popped on in next. The plan she had come to the night before was simple: anything had to be better than nothing. And the pill books and nursing guides she had picked up at the community college’s bookstore would help her figure out the gist of it all. When and if she needed it. And I hope to God I don’t need it.

      For a delirious moment, she pictured herself striding up to the counter and handing the pharmacist, Hal Anderson, a prescription––just as she had done dozens of times in her life. Unfortunately, she had no idea where Hal Anderson was and she doubted if she would ever see him again. Hal was what Jeanette had termed a Gone. It was both a title and a state of being. He, like everyone else in town and probably the world, was simply gone. One evening a few weeks ago, Jeanette had been sitting on her ratty living room sofa watching the news. The anchor was reporting that several large, metallic disks had been spotted in the skyline over various states. It had been April 1st, so Jeanette had assumed it was a prank. Real effin’ funny, she

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