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    Real Love 1 (If Only You Were Mine)
    Real Love 1 (If Only You Were Mine)
    Real Love 1 (If Only You Were Mine)
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    Real Love 1 (If Only You Were Mine)

    By H.H. Fowler

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    Imagine on your wedding day – the happiest day of your life – someone hands you an anonymous note that says the person you're about to marry has cheated on you with your best friend. What would be your first reaction?

    Drake Beckford, an up and coming young minister of El Shaddai Ministries, finds himself in a similar situation when he goes off to Bible School in Columbus, Ohio, entrusting his bride to be, Sasha McKay into the hands of his best friend, Levi Johnson. Sasha has been Drake’s first and only love since they were twelve years old and from that time to the present Drake has always believed her to be a woman of honor and integrity and she has never given him reason to doubt her love or her loyalty.

    However, unbeknownst to Drake, while he is away Levi has developed strong feelings for Sasha and it seems as if she, too, is fond of Levi. What will become of their budding attraction when Drake returns to make Sasha his wife? With that upsetting note wedged between his fingers, as he watches Sasha walk up the aisle to meet him, does Drake even dare believe such a wild accusation about her?

    If You Were Only Mine is the first book in H H Fowler's new novella Christian romance series, Real Love, which attempts to show what love really is, based on 1 Corinthians 13. For many can talk love talk, but not very many can walk the real love walk. Sit back and enjoy a whole new cast of characters that will no doubt leave you with times of reflection and questions about your own interpretation of what it means to express real love. Bestseller of Urban Christian Romance Series

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherH.H. Fowler
    Release dateMar 11, 2016
    ISBN9781311767905
    Real Love 1 (If Only You Were Mine)
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    H.H. Fowler

    Husband, Father, Muscian, Writer... Conceived in the chills of Switzerland, Fowler's parents journeyed back home to the Bahamas where he was born and reared a Caribbean product. A cosmopolitan at heart, Fowler's interest in the power of writing was ignited at the impressionable age of thirteen, awarding him the opportunity to share his furor with his family and close friends. His first poem, inspired by his Literary teacher was published at age fourteen by a recognized publishing company in Washington D.C. He's a graduate of Remmington College in Tampa Florida and was elected to deliver the graduation speech for the Bachelor program. Most of his reading and writing experiences have been immensely touched by noted prolific writers such as, Agatha Christie, John Grisham, Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim Lahaye. He now introduces his new novel, "Church Boyz". Fowler's favorite activities, besides writing and reading, include playing the piano, traveling, and meeting new people. Visit his blog at www.churchboyz.org "I am fascinated by storytelling, and how characters develop into people I feel as if I've known all my life."

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    Real Love 1 (If Only You Were Mine) - H.H. Fowler

    If Only You Were Mine

    (Real Love Series – Book 1)

    Christian Novella

    H. H. Fowler

    Copyright © 2015 H. H. Fowler

    Smashwords Edition

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

    All characters, names, descriptions, and traits are products of the author’s imagination. Similarities of actual people – living or dead are purely coincidental.

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    Connect with H.H. Fowler on Twitter:

    @fowlerguy1

    Blog: www.churchboyz.org

    Facebook: www.facebook.com/www.churchboyz.org

    Dear Reader,

    Off the coast of the Bahama Islands, there is a fictional place called Devin’s Cay. The series consists of seven books, which could be considered standalones, but are intricately tied to each other. My hope is that you will be entertained, inspired and illuminated.

    If Only You Were Mine (Book 1)

    Second Chances (Book 2)

    Hungry Hearts (Book 3)

    If Loving You is Wrong (Book 4)

    Love the One You’re With (Book 5)

    I’m Still in Love With You (Book 6)

    Love Knows No Bounds (Book7)

    CONTENTS

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Chapter Seven

    Chapter Eight

    Chapter Nine

    Chapter Ten

    Chapter Eleven

    Chapter Twelve

    Epilogue

    Excerpt from Second Chances (Book 2)

    From the Desk of H.H. Fowler

    Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast…

    1 Corinthians 13:4 (NLT)

    Chapter One

    Ten Months Before…

    When Levi walked around to open the passenger door of his maroon Mustang, the first thing Sasha noticed about him were his thighs. Two bulging pieces of flesh covered in a hairy layer of chocolate skin. The soft material of his shorts gripped his buttocks in all the right places, too sensual for a man six-foot-four, two hundred and forty pounds to wear in public. In all the years Sasha had known Levi, she’d never really been this close to his scantily clad body and for a moment she found herself indulging in a chain of inappropriate thoughts.

    Thanks for picking me up on such short notice, she said. My car is down and I had no one else to call at this hour.

    The pleasure is all mine, pretty woman, Levi teased. A nickname he’d created to align with Sasha’s poised disposition. The short brown hairstyle she wore suited her heart-shaped face and her button nose, which was positioned perfectly above her slightly full lips. Your man is two thousand miles away in some Jim Jones institution, getting high on religion. Someone has got to take care of you in the interim.

    Behave yourself, mister. Drake would not appreciate you making fun of his spiritual calling and neither do I. Succeeding Rev. Henderson as the next pastor of El Shaddai Ministries is very important to him.

    Levi cracked a lopsided grin. I’m ‘bout six inches taller and thirty pounds heavier than that yellow-skinned dude. Unless he has a black belt in karate, I ain’t scared of him. I’ll take him down in under a minute. As for you, well, what can I say? I have no choice but to handle you with care.

    Sasha lifted her lips into a coquettish smile. Her fiancé, Drake Beckford, was an exceptional catch with great potential, but if compared to Levi, he was not as blasé nor as humorous in his expression. Drake was a disciplined man who took his spiritual assignments seriously. It amazed Sasha that the two had been best friends for as long as she could remember. Yet, with such differences in their personalities, they somehow exemplified the true meaning of friendship.

    Excuse my appearance, Levi said to Sasha’s silence. I was shooting hoops with some of the boys from Xavier High School. When you called, I had just left the basketball court.

    Levi’s words drew Sasha’s attention back to that forbidden place she’d been trying to ignore since getting into the Mustang. Those muscular hairy thighs would haunt her for weeks if she didn’t keep her subtle gazes away from them. And how ironic that she was on her way to mid-week Bible study where Rev. Henderson was teaching a three-part series on living holy before God. Why then was she allowing her flesh to get the best of her?

    It’s fine with me, she said. I’m the one invading your space.

    Levi frowned. You’re not invading anything. But seriously, it doesn’t bother you that you’re sitting next to a sweaty, well-cut, sexy male? And did I mention that Hersey’s chocolate got its name from my complexion?

    Sasha covered her smile with her hand. You are so vain. Drake says it all the time about you and I am starting to believe him.

    Levi smirked, as he stole a glance at Sasha’s profile. He was really digging the way her short brown hair was cropped against her face, accentuated by her flawless, pecan-colored skin. Indeed, an extremely tempting package that made Levi question within himself if Drake had been man enough to at least taste Sasha’s sweet lips. But considering how sanctified Drake acted when it came to sex, Levi seriously doubted that Drake had made any such move. The dude was probably still a virgin.

    So, Levi said, changing the subject a bit, you are determined to marry that straitlaced man?

    Sasha frowned. "Determined? I wouldn’t use that word. And I certainly wouldn’t call Drake, straitlaced."

    Why? When you know that he is.

    One, because you make it seem as if I’m desperate, which I am not. And two, I love Drake, even if he is a little disciplined, which I admire in a man, by the way.

    Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I would have never imagined you two together… Levi paused when he heard Sasha gasp at his statement. I mean, don’t get me wrong. Opposites attract, right? However, I’d always thought that Drake’s personality was too uptight for you; he doesn’t know how to relax, you know what I mean? But what do I know about relationships? You guys seem to be making it work.

    Yes, we are making it work, Sasha said firmly. Why would you even say something like that?

    "Because frankly, Sasha, Drake doesn’t really know what he has in a woman

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