It all falls apart one afternoon when the horse she is riding, Erde, becomes spooked and Valerie falls off and ends up in the hospital, again, only this time with a concussion. While she is hospitalized, Duke, with the most imperfect timing, calls to confess that he really doesn’t want to give up his surfer lifestyle and move up north anymore, essentially breaking up with Valerie.
Hurt physically and emotionally, with no prospect of living on her own, Valerie is ready to throw in the towel and head back down south. She has no real job, no boyfriend, and no place of her own. In Better Before Than Forever, Valerie must decide if she should keep moving forward, or try to go back and piece her life together, the way it was before.
Throughout it all, Valerie learns a valuable lesson about moving forward and learns that sometimes, things aren’t necessarily better in the past…
Shelley Tan is the author of contemporary lesbian romance novels. She grew up in Northern California but vacationed on Balboa Island in Southern California as a child with her family. Balboa Island was to her the happiest place on earth. Her debut novel, Better Late Than Forever, takes her and her reader back to that place where a romance she never expected occurs, and the chance to relive her childhood fairytale. When she is not working or writing, Shelley enjoys gardening and drinking wine, but not necessarily in that order.