Opening Up For Her
(2024)I Hope You Dance
(A book in the Life in Live Oak series)
A novel by Jessika Klide
"This was a gorgeous, gorgeous story.... just beautiful ❤️" ~Goodreads review
“This is one of the sweetest, most romantic, touching and heartbreaking stories I have ever read.” ~Kindle customer
When Nikolai Smirnoff was thirty-five, he was an MMA champion with a loving wife and a baby girl he doted on. Then tragedy struck. His wife died in a horrible automobile accident, but thankfully, his little girl survived.
Leaving his MMA career behind to raise Divya, he opened a gym in the small town of Live Oak, Alabama.
Now, years later, his life is stable but lonely.
Until Vicki Powell, a young woman in her late twenties, once a dancer on Broadway, leases the adjoining space next to his gym to open a dance studio. Having recently lost her mother, she understands grief, but life is for the living. When the vivacious Vicki meets the grumpy grappler, she is attracted to the older man, but Nik has deep wounds.
Will Nik open up for her?
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*Originally published in 2018. This will be an updated, edited version containing more words and additional scenes.
Release date: TBD. This is a place-holder date for the moment.
“This is one of the sweetest, most romantic, touching and heartbreaking stories I have ever read.” ~Kindle customer
When Nikolai Smirnoff was thirty-five, he was an MMA champion with a loving wife and a baby girl he doted on. Then tragedy struck. His wife died in a horrible automobile accident, but thankfully, his little girl survived.
Leaving his MMA career behind to raise Divya, he opened a gym in the small town of Live Oak, Alabama.
Now, years later, his life is stable but lonely.
Until Vicki Powell, a young woman in her late twenties, once a dancer on Broadway, leases the adjoining space next to his gym to open a dance studio. Having recently lost her mother, she understands grief, but life is for the living. When the vivacious Vicki meets the grumpy grappler, she is attracted to the older man, but Nik has deep wounds.
Will Nik open up for her?
* * * * *
*Originally published in 2018. This will be an updated, edited version containing more words and additional scenes.
Release date: TBD. This is a place-holder date for the moment.
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