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| Los Angeles – Present Day Thirteen years ago, the lives of Helen Zhang and Grant Shepard were forever changed and linked after he accidentally ran over and killed her only sister, Michelle. It was Michelle’s doing as she ran out in front of traffic on a highway late at night. While Grant was exonerated, Helen and her parents were left grieving and angry—toward him. In the intervening years, Helen has gone on to become a successful Young Adult author and now they are turning her books into a television series. She gets to help them write the screenplay to adapt her books to television. Unfortunately, she learns on the first day that Grant is one of the members of the writing team. Helen will have to work and see him every day. How can she when he is responsible for why her family is so sad? Grant wonders how things will work out between him and Helen in HOW TO END A LOVE STORY. He is so sorry for what happened even though he wasn’t responsible for a suicidal teenager running into the path of his car in the middle of the night. He even tried to show up at the funeral but was asked to leave. Now Grant must work with Helen. She isn’t friendly at first and barely acknowledges him, but since they are all part of a team, they can’t ignore one another forever. The writing team goes on a weekend retreat meant to bond and it turns out, Helen and Grant begin to thaw out and start talking. It is the start of a friendship which soon leads to more. But Michelle’s death hangs over them. Her parents would be truly mad if they found out she was not only working with Grant but seeing him romantically. How long can they keep it a secret from her parents? Their future as a couple doesn’t look bright. The romance in HOW TO END A LOVE STORY is slow to build as one might expect. Helen has to get past what happened that night and Grant wishes things could have been different. Then there is the fact that Helen has been searching for clues among her sister’s things for a reason why she did what she did. Did the family miss the clues of Michelle’s depression and suicidal thoughts? When someone dies like this, it affects a lot of people. To the world, the family might have grieved and then moved on, but for the Zhang family, the death still hovers over them. It has caused them to become a dysfunctional family. Or has it always been this way and Michelle responded in the only way she could? Does Helen find the answers she is looking for? While HOW TO END A LOVE STORY is told from both Helen and Grant’s points of view, the underlying story is about Helen getting over her grief and her burgeoning relationship with Grant. Their coming together is complicated even as they work together each day to bring her books to the screen. This tale is filled with mixed emotions. There is sadness. There is building new careers and lives. Then there is finding love. Will Helen and Grant get a chance to have a life together forever? Discover the answer for yourself by grabbing a copy of HOW TO END A LOVE STORY. Patti Fischer |
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HOW TO END A LOVE STORY – Yulin Kuang