A fashion designer with a soaring career, leads a secret double life, trading love notes across a bar. An unexpected accident transports her into a coma altered world, and a new guardian emerges to see her through recovery and bring her back to reality. 

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COASTERS

by Jacqueline Marchan Britton

Synopsis

Jennifer and Paul’s relationship starts with playful messages written on the back of bar coasters. He is a handsome bartender, training to become a firefighter, who works in the basement bar of the building where her office is located. Jennifer is a beautiful fashion designer creating innovative textiles and collaborating with the world’s top designers. They have an immediate connection, but he has a secret that keeps Paul from committing to a deeper relationship with her.

The story starts when years later, Jennifer receives an unexpected letter from Paul that takes her back to those bittersweet times of their passion and her memories of their time together. In the corner of her nightstand drawer is the stack of coasters she saved, with his tight hand writing on them. She would often pull them out and read them one by one. She had longed for a lifetime relationship with him, but his withdrawal from her, fueled her drive for success at work as she buried herself in creative project after project to keep the pain at bay. In spite of her personal turmoil, she soars in her career as a textile designer at DesignTech and takes the company to new heights when her fabrics hit the top runways and designers are lined up to work with her.

While on a solo vacation in Hawaii, she meets Josh Russo who gives her all the emotional connection she longed for with Paul. He is willing to change his life for her, but she cannot bring herself to commit, knowing that Paul resides in her heart. She privately struggles with this triangle of emotions while still excelling in her career, when a tragic accident rips her from her life, and thrusts her into an unexplained coma and fantasy dream state. Their lives go on without her, unaware of her struggle for her very life.

In her dreams, Jennifer lives an idyllic life where the best of both men unite in a perfect mate. She has mermaid dreams where she is beautifully fluid and free and happy. Her mind lives a perfect life while her body lies in a hospital bed. Dr. Oliver Martin finds himself at her bedside intrigued by the mystery of her situation and is drawn to her with a depth that he cannot understand. He assigns himself as her guardian of sorts and works to bring her back to the real world where he can know her.

Each man somehow touches the essence of what Jennifer needs, success, passion, connection, and security. But who is really right for her? It takes a full circle of time and healing for Jennifer to realize what she had, what she lost, and what really matters.

COASTERS