I Will Be the Woman He Loved: Learning to Live Again on the Thames Path

"I laughed, I cried. A funny, sometimes sad—but always optimistic—memoir about resilience, love, and living life one step at a time." —Kimberley Lovato, travel journalist and author, Pisa Loves Bella

A Next Generation INDIE Book Awards FINALIST

"A very highly recommended read" that "provid(es) signposts to recovery, healing, discovery, and, ultimately, new directions." —Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer, The Midwest Book Review

                              A refugee. An immigrant. One of the first women CEOs in tech.
                            Adversity helped define her. Now she must define herself yet again. 

The daughter of Russian and Croatian refugees, an ostracized immigrant, and a white girl at a mostly Black school, Tania Romanov defied the odds. Climbing from public schoolroom to head of the boardroom, she became one of the first women CEOs in tech. Along the way she also found love.

In I Will Be the Woman He Loved, her most personal and timely memoir yet, Romanov chronicles her search for identity after the end of her trailblazing career and the loss of her soulmate, Harold. Over a two-week walk along England's Thames Path, Romanov reflects on their love story, world travels, and battle against cancer—reflections that reveal a lifelong fight to be herself.

Revisiting past lives, loves, and lessons, Romanov recounts the challenges of her immigrant childhood in San Francisco and being a successful young female executive in a pre-#MeToo, male-dominated workplace. Facing her loss and grief, she struggles to come to terms with a future very different from what she imagined—one in which she must rediscover her love of life and redefine herself yet again.

Tania Romanov Amochaev is the author of Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women (Travelers' Tales, 2018), also published in Serbian as Po Nasemu (Akadems Kaknjiga, 2020); Never a Stranger (Solificatio, 2019), a collection of award-winning travel essays; One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov's Search for Her Father's Russia (Travelers' Tales, 2020), published in Russia as СТО ЛЕТ ИЗГНАНИЯ (Rosspen Publishers, 2021) and winner of Gold for Memoir in the Northern California Publishers and Authors Book Awards; and San Francisco Pilgrimage (Solificatio, 2022). Tania's work has been featured in multiple travel anthologies, including The Best Travel Writing and The Best Women's Travel Writing series. Born in the former Yugoslavia, Tania spent her childhood in a refugee camp in Italy, before emigrating to the United States, where she grew up in San Francisco's Russian community. A graduate of San Francisco public schools, she went on to serve as CEO of three technology companies.

Matthew Félix is the author of four books, a certified life coach, and a speaker. Publishers Weekly called his debut novel, A Voice Beyond Reason, "(a) highly crafted gem;" his With Open Arms was an Amazon Hot New Release and topped its Africa category; and, his most recent book, Porcelain Travels, was a Foreword INDIES Humor Book of the Year finalist. The former host of the San Francisco Writers Conference Podcast, Matthew regularly conducts interviews at San Francisco Bay Area bookstores and cultural institutions. He also ghost-writes, edits, designs, publishes, and markets books for other authors.