


Jessica Lennox is what you would call a high-powered executive. The only bright spot is an impromptu date with a beautiful and mysterious brunette. To top it all off, her birth mother, whom she’s never met, has requested contact. A speeding ticket, a towed car, and a broken heel are all working against her laid-back vibe.

Twenty-eight-year-old Brooklyn Campbell is having a bad day. Sleeping with the enemy has never been so complicated. She took the next step and said, “I can write even better.” Rightfully so! But what is so lovely, is that Brayden didn’t rest on her laurels and just squeeze out another book that was written “just as well” as her previous novels. Brayden’s first two books, Waiting in the Wings and Heart Block, are Golden Crown Literary Award winners. I’m drawn to those authors who just keep writing better and better novels – even if the previous novels won awards and got rave reviews. An athlete who just set the world record in the 100 meter race doesn’t sit back and say, “Well, I’m done.” S/he says, “I can run even faster.” You did “just as well.” It needed to be “better”. “But, I got an A on the first speech and a B on the second speech! Why? I did just as well on the second as I did the first.”Įxactly. This lesson was usually the most difficult for the “A” student to learn. The flat line on the graph of improvement wouldn’t cut it. No matter what their chosen profession, they would be expected to improve. They would be expected to learn from failures and successes. Because once they left college and got out into the working world, doing the minimum necessary would not be enough. One of the things I always told my students was that it wasn’t enough to do the minimum necessary to pass. I taught Speech Communication and Performance of Literature. I spent twelve years of my adult life teaching at universities.
