By christine melanie benson
Marrying Myself
A Novel
It’s a fairy tale come true for Julia Jones, a stalled artist living in Boston’s Old World Italian neighborhood, the North End. She’s engaged to marry the impossibly wonderful (and impossibly wealthy) Asher Bartlett – in a Swiss castle, no less! And after the wedding, she’ll get to ditch her dead-end nonprofit job and go from being a sometime painter to a full-time artist. But when the wedding plans take a turn for the worse, in a flash, Julia’s life goes from fairy tale to second-rate soap opera – leaving her happy ending up to her, and her alone.
Looking for a fun, often funny read with substance and a jolt of self-love? Pick up Marrying Myself and fall in love with Julia, with Boston – and, most of all, with yourself.
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Author
Christine Melanie Benson
An attorney who’s been running from the law her entire professional life, Christine Melanie Benson is also a short story author, legal writer, news satire writer, and host of the Vegan Posse podcast. Her experience includes over a decade as a regular freelance legal writer for Baltimore’s The Daily Record law digest, and her fiction works have been featured in An Eclectic Mix Anthology, RomanticShorts.com, The Binnacle Maine Literary Journal, and satire website TheSpoof!. Marrying Myself is Christine’s first novel. Formerly of Boston and New York City, Christine now makes her home in Nashville, Tennessee.
Julia thought back to that night on the balcony in Florence. She
remembered Asher’s sweet, sweet touch, and what it had been like to finally
let herself feel – to really, really feel.
And, so, she made her choice. She believed.
– Christine Melanie Benson, Marrying Myself