Margie Janes Author
The long-awaited sequel to
True Companion
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Date:
February 4, 2025
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True Companion
book description
Release date: February 1, 2022
In her junior year at college, Rebecca Winslow was expecting to miss her boyfriend, Jason, a handsome pre-law student, but she was not expecting to run into her best friend from childhood. A boy. Correction, a guy. Make that a gorgeous guy. TJ.
It’s the sixteenth anniversary of Rebecca’s sister’s death. Rebecca is desperate to rid herself of her perfect sister’s haunting shadow and her overbearing–yet emotionally distant mother. A winter semester back at college with her close and crazy roommates is just what she needs.
Yet, seeing TJ Lawson in her “breath of fresh air” Ballroom Dance class leads Rebecca to put back pieces from their lifetime apart. TJ has reappeared in her universe like a sunrise, shining a light on her true self. Navigating junior year with high expectations and a heavy workload, she is also reliving the past–that last summer before everything changed. Just Beck and TJ. Best friends. Side by side and free. Rebecca begins to question everything.
Has she been hiding behind the persona of her dead sister all this time? Could TJ be the key to helping her open up?
Caught in the middle of the past and future, Rebecca finally has to be honest with herself. Will she take the path her mother laid out for her, continue her romance with Jason, or grab TJ’s hand and twirl into a new dance?
True Promise
book description
Release date: February 4, 2025
Rebecca (Beck) Winslow is living a dream. Her long-lost best friend from childhood, TJ, returned to her life in the spring semester of her junior college year, and they fell hard for each other. Now, Beck and TJ get to spend the rest of the year together, all the while planning for their future after college.
Meanwhile, Beck and her mom, Suzanne, are trying to mend their relationship while she and TJ work to gain Suzanne’s approval. But they’re not making any leeway for reasons neither of them can understand. What is holding Suzanne back from embracing TJ, and what is she hiding? Suzanne has never been an open book, but through the pages of her journal, her life unfolds through memories of love, loss, and a struggle to move forward.
As Beck works to figure out the missing pieces, an unexpected diagnosis halts any forward momentum, and Beck is desperate to know more about her mother’s past before it’s too late.
What should be the start of Beck and TJ’s new journey as lovers takes a turn, forcing a separation and a new reality, as answers from the past surface and leave their relationship hanging in the balance. How will Beck and TJ overcome it all to get back to their true promise of forever?
Open-door romance cheat sheet
Please note that True Promise contains a handful of intimate, or bedroom scenes. This is a difference from True Companion, which is more "sweet with heat," and no spice. If you are uncomfortable reading open-door scenes, you may want to skip the following pages, as these pages have more detailed, intimate scenes:
3
28-29
180
191
253-254
About the Author
Storyteller at Heart
Margie Janes is an Amazon best-selling author and the 3x first-place winner of The BookFest Awards for her debut, new adult romance True Companion. Margie grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and graduated from Eastern Illinois University, where she met her husband, Bill, before earning a master’s degree from Olivet Nazarene University. Now an elementary school teacher, she is fortunate to spend her days teaching, connecting with, learning from, and entertaining a room full of 9-year-olds. Margie began writing True Companion at the age of thirteen after being inspired by Phil Colin’s 1990 music video “Do You Remember?” The video features a girl and a boy who instantly connect and create a friendship until they are separated by an event. True Companion is not your ordinary girl-meets-boy novel. Margie crafted this novel over thirty years, writing from a child's perspective when Beck was a little girl, a college student's perspective, when Beck was in college, and a mother's perspective when she wrote the parts of Suzanne and Janet. True Promise is the continuation of True Companion and picks up where Beck and TJ’s story left off. Margie loves reading, writing, watching movies, spending time with family and friends, cheering at her kids’ sporting activities, and playing with her rescue pup, Skyler.
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
Steve Jobs
