International Author Releases Second Book In Her YA Contemporary Romance Series, Tainted Love

March 01,2013

Tainted Love “ After her forbidden romance with a married teacher ends, Isabel hopes to start a new life at college on the East Coast, but can she resist the allure of her former lover?

Tainted Love “ After her forbidden romance with a married teacher ends, Isabel hopes to start a new life at college on the East Coast, but can she resist the allure of her former lover?

œMy name is Isabel Cruz, and I'm nineteen years old, almost twenty. I go to Lincoln University where I'm majoring in English. I'm a straight-A student, and I know what I'm doing with my life, but things weren't always that way. Or rather, I've always known what I wanted, and it just hasn't always gone along with society's views. In high school, I had an affair with my swim coach. I wanted him, and I took what I wanted. We were together until I graduated, but he had a wife and kids, and I left him behind to come here. I left everything behind to come here. At least that's what I thought.

Isabel was never like the other girls at her school in the sleepy town of Hillside, California. At sixteen she fell in love with Tom, a married swim coach at Royal Oaks High School; their exhilarating and sultry affair continuing in secret for several years. Finally, Isabel realized that her own future had to come first, but even after relocating to Washington, D.C. to study at Lincoln University, she finds herself still wracked by guilt over jeopardizing the happiness and security of Tom's young family. Now almost in her twenties and desperate to start a new chapter in her life, free from past controversies, Isabel will once again find that her beauty and precociousness will captivate another older man, this time a professor at her university. Confronted by this burgeoning affair, Isabel realizes just how deeply she still loves Tom and, in spite of the disapproval of her hometown community, her feelings become too strong to deny.

When Isabel returns to Hillside, reunited with Tom, she feels herself falling for him all over again, only this time with the tantalizing promise that things could really work out for them, especially since she is no longer the naive teen she used to be. But all is not as it seems; Isabel begins to hear rumors about Tom's involvement with other girls at Royal Oaks High. Quickly this salacious gossip leaks to the local media and the authorities begin to investigate the claims. Only then does the true gravity of Isabel's misguided choices begin to profoundly affect those around her and threaten to derail her life completely.

Tainted Love is the thrilling follow up to Sweetest Taboo by Eva Marquez, and rejoins Isabel Cruz as she tries to put her complex and forbidden romance with Tom behind her. Written from the perspectives of both Isabel and Tom, the irrational and desperate love they share is brought to vivid life by Marquez. Inspired by the conviction of one of her former high school teachers for sexual misconduct with a minor, it addresses a poignant modern taboo, one that is becoming increasingly common in the US, with unnerving insight and precision. Tainted Love is a must read for young adults, their parents and all fans of romantic fiction.

Book Information:

Tainted Love

Author: Eva MÃ¡rquez

Publisher: Terra-Mia Press

ISBN: 978-1468509144

Published: March 2013

Pages: 311

About The Author:

Eva Marquez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to European immigrants. At the age of five, Marquez accompanied her parents to the United States, where the family settled permanently. After graduating from college, she went on to complete graduate studies in International Relations in Spain. Marquez received her Master of International Studies degree from the University of Sydney, Australia, before moving to work in the global health field in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia. Eva Marquez currently resides in Southern Africa, with her young daughter.

Tainted Love by Eva Marquez (Published by Terra-MÃa Press RRP $11.99, eBook $6.99) will be available on March 5 at all good retailers. For more information visit www.Eva-Marquez.com

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