(Four Year Vow Series) - by J.P. Ellison -
Vanessa Pepper has always put everyone else first—her career, her marriage, her life. But when the quiet cracks in her marriage become impossible to ignore, she faces a choice she never imagined: stay in the comfort of the life she knows, or take a leap into the unknown.
A message from an old flame, a trip to sun-soaked Antigua, and a revolutionary new law—the Four-Year Renewal Act—force Vanessa to confront love, loyalty, and her own desires. With every decision, the stakes get higher: her heart, her marriage, and her future all hang in the balance.
Full of passion, humor, and real-world tension, Four Year Vows is a contemporary romance about the courage it takes to fight for love—and, sometimes, to fight for yourself.
A Must Read!!! Four-Year Vows was such a good read! Vanessa’s journey of figuring out love, independence, and what really matters hit hard. It’s all about choosing yourself—and I loved that! Highly recommend! ~Amazon Review
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EXCERPT - INTRODUCTION
Vanessa Pepper sat alone on a sun-warmed strip of Caribbean sand, the wind teasing strands of her hair. The water shimmered like cut glass; the kind of view people save for all year but her mind was nowhere near this beach.
She had the checklist life: a respected career as a physician assistant, a husband, her health. On paper, it was everything she'd been told to want. In reality, at thirty-nine, she felt trapped in a life that promised much but delivered little.
The numbers followed her everywhere: $125,000 in student loans. Twelve-hour shifts that left her too drained to speak. A marriage that felt more like a polite hostage situation than a love story.
She and August had tried, God, they had tried. Counseling. Church. Compromise. But their fixes only papered over widening cracks. He was an optimist, forever waiting for the future to save them; she was sinking under the present. Pretneding became their shared language, and she could no longer speak it.
Then came the Family About Reconciliation Act, a law that allowed couples to renew or dissolve their marriage every four years. For Vanessa, it was intoxicating: the freedom to choose without the shadow of "forever" looming over her.