True Love Endures

By Ana B. Ronning

True Love Endures is the sequel to True Love Waits.

Brad Mason has loved Marti Willis since they were fifteen years old. He'd always planned his future with her in it. Imagine his surprise when Marti left him to chase her dream, and eventually marrying someone else.

After divorcing her husband, Marti returned to Leesburg, Virginia and rekindled her love affair with Brad after they overcame her fate of not being able to have children. They shortly married after that and their love has grown stronger with each day.
Now...Brad has a secret that will change their lives forever. He has a son from a previous affair five years ago. With Marti being sterile, her insecurities jump back front and center and her marriage to Brad is in danger of failing. Will he leave her to have the family he's always dreamed of? Will Marti be able to hold on to him and welcome the little addition into their family? Will she be able to accept that Brad had a child with another woman, but can never have one with her?

True Love Endures is a story of heart ache and envy...courage and strength...forgiveness and love...true love.

This book is for 18+ due to sexual content.

• Language: English
• Publisher: gazebopublishing
• Release date: Mar 31, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311159113

Ana B. Ronning

My name is Ana B. Ronning and I live in North Texas with my husband of twenty four years, Garrett, and our beautiful teenage daughter. I’m a stay at home mom at present, will be an empty nester in a couple of years and I plan to remain at home until retirement catches me. I grew up in a small southern Texas town where people didn’t lock their doors at night in fear. My sister and I could be found either on our bikes, in a tree or just running barefoot through our huge back yard. We were rarely indoors and our mother would stand on the back porch and call to us when it was dinner time. We could hear her from blocks away when she’d call us, and come roaring into the yard on our bikes, usually racing to see who could get there first. Most of my life, I really never liked to read. I was the athletic type and loved to play all kinds of sports. Reading was just plain boring to me most of my life. So, you can imagine my surprise when I found something that sparked a fire in me that I never knew existed. I suppose I was stuck in a rut, not knowing what direction my life needed to go. I didn’t feel I was contributing enough. My daughter was growing up and didn’t need me anymore, for one. I wanted to feel that I was equally contributing to my family and to society. And, I most certainly wanted to make my amazing husband as proud of my accomplishments as I have been of his. Garrett has always been there for me, supported anything I wanted to do and he’s always had my back, no matter what. I was searching for something to make me feel more adequate. I felt there was something missing...something important I was supposed to be doing. As luck would have it, Garrett dragged me to a half price bookstore one day looking for something in particular for him. I was browsing through the Romance Novels as I waited for him, not intending on buying one. I noticed one that book that stood out among the others. It looked quite appealing, so I took it home and started reading it. By the end of the next day, I was finished with it. I loved it so much I asked Garrett to take me back to get the other two books I learned were in the series. They were read in three days. This was sometime in Autumn of 2011, when I found my love for Romance Novels. I read just about everything this particular author wrote then found other authors I really liked. Garrett encouraged me to write a book of my own, so I wrote my first 19th Century Romance Novel in January of 2012 and finished it in April of 2012. I had never enjoyed something so much in my life, well, almost nothing else. I found what I wanted to do, my passion, and it only took me forty-three years to find it. I finished the novel and went on to read more Romance novels, but more modern than 19th century. I fell in love with modern romance even more and started working on the “Love Lights” series. This was my true passion for writing romance. I enjoyed writing these three books and I do hope that you enjoy reading them. I will eventually publish my first, 19th century novel, in addition to a sequel to it, in the future, but for now, I have more writings that I am currently working on. I truly loved writing this series and I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Ana B. Ronning

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True Love Endures

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

About the Author

Other Books

Chapter 1

Looking out the window, watching the pouring rain beat on the cobblestone road in front of the old Enchanted Book Nook & Cranny, Marti Mason sighed heavily.

We should close for the rest of the day, Mom. She continued to watch the storm from the bay window, seeing not a soul in sight.

Oh, you never know if someone might come in…despite the weather. Her mother chuckled. Your father wouldn’t close the store until six o’clock p.m. on the dot. She said as she added a stack of book marks to the glass counter, full of classic hard covers, such as Little Women, A Tale of Two Cities, The Great Gatsby, Tom Sawyer and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Marti looked over her shoulder and smiled at her aging mother. Her father had passed away when she was a sophomore in college. She had attended NYU, where she met Mark, her first husband and after graduating, landed her dream job at a publishing company.

That’s how you first met Brad, if you remember. Her mother said, keeping busy perfecting her display of pens and magnets and book marks. If we hadn’t stayed open…he wouldn’t have had a place to duck in out of the storm. She winked at her daughter.

Marti smiled at the memory of a fifteen year old Brad Mason crashing into the old book store, drenched and shivering. Her mom took him right in and made him some hot chocolate. He was the cutest boy she’d ever seen and he seemed to be staring at her the entire time her mother was doting over him. They became close friends and were inseparable from that day on. That is, until she left him for New York.

I remember. Marti said softly, almost blushing. He was so dreamy. She said in a dreamlike state, staring into nothingness.

Well…it took you two long enough to finally tie the proverbial knot. She teased. I swear I thought I’d never see the day. And, your father missed it. She began to cry softly, dotting her eyes with a tissue.

Marti went to her mother and wrapped her arms around her in comfort. He didn’t miss it, mom. He was there. He was right beside me, where he belonged.

Her mother nodded and straightened up, standing tall and smiling. Yes, he was, wasn’t he?

Marti giggled and suddenly a gust of cold wind blew her hair across her face and she felt drops of rain reaching all the way across the room from the now open front door.

She squinted to see who was standing in the doorway without closing the stupid door. It was a man. Tall and huge, wearing a rain coat and hat. She couldn’t see his facial features to know who he was or what kind of mood he was in.

She stood tall and plastered a smile on her face. Can I help you, sir?

He closed the door and removed his dripping hat, placing it on the hall tree standing between the door and the bay window. He turned to face them, smiling warmly and unbuttoning his trench coat.

Yes. I’m Julian Stoddard. He cocked his head. "I just drove into