A Marriage of Convenience

Stevie Turner

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Realistic fiction

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When strait-laced Sophie Woods agrees to Gerrie Hermann's unusual proposal, she has no idea that her decision is going to affect the rest of her life in ways that she could never have foreseen, even in her wildest dreams.

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Gerrie Hermann, aspiring rock star from a rich South African family, has an unusual proposal for Sophie Woods when he meets her for the first time in their university canteen. Gerrie, in the UK on a student visa, is looking for UK citizenship in order to pursue his musical career.

Sophie has never done anything out of the ordinary in the whole of her 19 years, but she decides to take Gerrie up on his offer of marriage in exchange for thirty thousand pounds to pay off her debts. Gerrie’s father is furious that his son has married against his wishes, and stops funding his lifestyle.

Gerrie and Sophie fall in love and Sophie becomes pregnant. However, Gerrie’s band now has the chance to support a famous rock band, but need £40,000 tour money. Gerrie comes up with a plan for their baby to be ’kidnapped’ just for a week by friends, so that his father will pay out the ransom.

However, Mr Hermann refuses to pay, and their ’friends’ seem to be very late returning the baby....

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stevie Turner

Bio: Stevie Turner is a British author who won a New Apple Book Award in 2014 and a Readers’ Favorite Gold Award in 2015 for her thriller ‘A House Without Windows’. One of her short stories, ‘Lifting the Black Dog’, was published in ‘1000 Words or Less Flash Fiction Collection’ (2016). She has also written an article ‘Look on the Bright Side of Life’ which was included in the 2016 book ‘They Say I’m Doing Well’ which are articles about mental illness, proceeds of which go to the charity MIND. Her screenplay ‘For the Sake of a Child’ won a silver award in the Spring 2017 Depth of Field International Film Festival. Her short story 'Checking Out' was shortlisted amongst the top 15 entries and published in the Creative Writing Institute’s December 2016 anthology ‘Explain!’

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I have ensured that this book contains much more than just the budding romance between Gerrie and Sophie. There is suspense, kidnap, jealousy and tragedy played out against a backdrop of two rock bands; one in the 1990s trying to reach the top, and then fast-forward to 2017 where another rock star is living the high life in Brazil and all the loose ends of the story come together.

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