Tabula Rasa: Writing A New Story (grumpy sunshine, Christian romance) (Beauty for Ashes)

She just wants to be free from the past. He will do anything to protect her.

Thirty-two-year-old Rebecca Ivy escapes a church where sin abounds even more than she realizes. Betrayed and broken, the ugliness of her past prevents her from recognizing the beauty in the mirror. She soon catches the watchful eye of her Jewish co-worker, Ted Margolin, who sees a woman worthy of his protection. As an unexpected romance blooms, Rebecca struggles to reconcile all she's been taught with the golden sparkle in the mighty Margolin's eyes. Old family secrets come to light, and Rebecca battles rumors and threats designed to keep her silent. Meanwhile, Ted must fight for Rebecca and against his own doubts about God. Rebecca's unwavering faith in Jesus confounds and intrigues Ted, but will it be enough to give them a tabula rasa (blank slate) to erase the past and create a new story of their own?

Tropes

• Grumpy/Sunshine
• Workplace Romance
• Marriage of Convenience
• "Touch Her and Die"
• Found Family

Ana Waters is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia with a B.A. in Religion and expertise in both Judaic and Biblical studies. She penned her first romance novel at the age of twelve, and she has never stopped writing the same books she loves to read. She lives outside of Atlanta, GA with her brood of precocious children and survives on a steady diet of Scripture, chocolate, and laughing at the absurdity of life and motherhood.

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