Sex isn’t love.
Love isn’t sex.
And friendship is neither.
The Life That Mattered, an all-new novel filled with suspense and intrigue from Jewel E. Ann, is available now!
The son of a French Olympic skier and a Malaysian fashion designer, Ronin Alexander has lived the life of a nomad, traveling the world to find his next adventure.
Life takes a dramatic turn when he meets Evelyn, a beautiful scientist who owns a bath shop in Aspen, Colorado. They defy all the rules of relationships, falling hard and quickly in love.
Their world intertwines with Evelyn’s two best friends, the Governor and his soon-to-be wife. The four become close—very close.
When tragedy strikes, things from their pasts are unveiled—unimaginable truths and the grim realization that life will never be the same.
Jewel E. Ann steps into another dimension with this mind-bending thriller, a provocative story that pushes boundaries and tests the true meaning of love.
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About Jewel
Jewel is a free-spirited romance junkie with a quirky sense of humor.
With 10 years of flossing lectures under her belt, she took early retirement from her dental hygiene career to stay home with her three awesome boys and manage the family business.
After her best friend of nearly 30 years suggested a few books from the Contemporary Romance genre, Jewel was hooked. Devouring two and three books a week but still craving more, she decided to practice sustainable reading, AKA writing.
When she’s not donning her cape and saving the planet one tree at a time, she enjoys yoga with friends, good food with family, rock climbing with her kids, watching How I Met Your Mother reruns, and of course…heart-wrenching, tear-jerking, panty-scorching novels.
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I've treasured each and every story from Jewel, but this story has reached up and touched the sky for me. It should be a hard act to follow.........for any other author.
But jewel will keep raising the sky it seems, like a personal challenge she sets for herself with every novel. She's competing with herself story after story
As always, Her prose is vibrant and lively. It billows and rumbles, pregnant with possibilities and jewel is a sailor and explorer. Moving from one trope to another, adventurous and curious
With a pickaxe and pen she goes digging deep into human soul and brain, chronicling her findings, marvelling at the what she discovers hidden between layers of our psyches
Had she not been a successful writer, she'd have made a brilliant psychologist, I'm sure
She keeps folding the story into an origami masterpiece, till we end up with a 4 dimensional POV.
There's her side, characters' side, readers side and the truth.
Her plot, character's reaction, our perspective and the Phenomenon of truth (you'll get it when you read it!!)
The plot is unbelievable because its uncharted territory for me. I've never read anything like this before. But as always I don't doubt, I don't ask, I don't choose & pick from the menu.
Whatever she feeds me, I Chew and savour.
Why she gives a particular twist, I dont question.
My trust in her ability is complete and total!
So when she declares that her next Book touches something intangible and obstruse...I say with my thudding heart- Bring. It. On!!
she has made me question the events unfolding in front of my eyes.
"Hinder not the soul’s intended path unto light, lest shards of darkness shed upon thee. "
I wonder if all superheroes face the same dilemma?
Is it all WORTH IT?
With great power comes great responsibility.- Either you save the world or save yourself.
A beautiful romance set in Picturesque Aspen. Her capacity for empathy seeps down on the pages, she's grabbed my heart in her hands and squeezed tight, at some scenes I was Breathless, at some dumbstruck, at some weeping and howling, till the acute pain was too much to handle............ #Flatlined
It's complex and well rounded, impeccably polished and consummately narrated story. jewel has explored the entire spectrum from softly romantic to heartwrenching sadness...with loads of funny in between. Her tone is snappy, dialogues crisp but the feels...OMG THE FEELS, they just render you stupid. I felt attacked from all sides, sharp barbs piercing my heart every chapter.
There's Evelyn Taylor- Science Geek, Evie the Chemist of Saponification, surrounded by perfumes and scents, soaps and scrubs, cleansing the world one soap bar at a time
The meet cute with Ronin Alexander the Book Nerd skier, happens in a Vancouver bar, where she's the third wheel tugged by her best friends Graham & Lila.
"Hot buns. Yummy bubble tea. Sunny and fifty-five degrees in beautiful Vancouver. And an Asian Frenchman who liked saving lives. Short of Graham giving Lila a dozen orgasms … there’s no way Lila’s day beat mine. "
They're getting married and she's here to keep Lila company.
Was it fate..destiny..serendipity? who knows, but they end up in Aspen, Colorado together and the connection purifies and distills in the pristine snow resort town.
"I felt like we were a fact—the sky was blue, water was wet, the wind blew. Ronin and Evelyn just were."
And then as they come closer, the tiny details of life gets clearer. All the truths, tainted and stark seem to crawl into the periphery moving towards the center.
“Every lie is actually a truth in a parallel universe.”
Their love is already set up for some unconquerable & invisible challenges. It demands tremendous amount of faith and trust against indescernible. A sequence of events unfold like a domino effect, one thing leads to the other until Evie is demanding answers.....and so was I. What happens next dropped my JAW TO THE FLOOR!!
Things get tough all around but the brunt of the collapsing world falls on Evie the hardest, she's wounded the most and looking at the CATASTROPHIC ending....she's going to be curling on the floor to weep until she dies......why should I be the only one wallowing in misery and grief!!
After all these books, you'd think I'd be used to Jewel pulling the ground beneath my feet. But like a sucker,I fall for it EVERYTIME
I wish I could've said more, revealed some plot secrets but Jewel would get pissed and demote me, so come suffer with me in CryFest, I'll provide wine!!
5 stars for “Unexplainable phenomena and unprovable ideologies.”
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