Falling In Love

About the Book

Falling in Love is a romantic novel about two career women: Danielle Bennett, vice-president of a successful San Francisco investment firm, and Juliana Hunt, a concert artist of growing international acclaim. Each has dedicated her life to achieving one goal: public success. Their attraction—-friendship charged with sexual tension—-belies each woman´s well-ordered life of professional success and the love a man. Neither Juliana nor Danielle has ever had a relationship with a woman before, but they are drawn to one another in a way that surprises and overwhelms them both. Both Juliana and Danielle feel their friendship deepening, and both fight this growing personal involvement that neither has ever allowed herself before, with friend or lover. The task of keeping one another at "arm´s length," figuratively and literally, becomes more difficult when Danielle invites Juliana to stay at her home for the two weeks Juliana will be in San Francisco. Juliana tries to convince herself and Danielle that they are only friends: "We both have lovers. You have Grant, I have Tony. We can´t be falling love with one another." Tony is Juliana´s mercurial lover, an interior designer with an international clientele, with whom she has romantic rendezvous when their busy travel schedules land them in the same city at the same time. Grant is Danielle´s steady escort, a corporate lawyer who has entrusted Danielle with a secret about himself that could destroy his career. As the friendship of Juliana and Danielle grows, so does their desire for intimacy, which moves them from friendly hugs to a night of tender, sensuous lovemaking—-deep fulfillment that neither has ever experienced before. Dedicated as each is to the success of her career and her public persona, each must decide if she can accept the difficulties, socially and professionally, that a commitment to another woman would mean in her life--especially the real danger of losing the position and prestige each has worked so hard to earn for herself. Readers will wonder to the very last pages of the novel what each woman will decide. Falling in Love is unabashedly a "quick, sexy read" for women—straight or gay—who want to be turned on by romance.

About the Author

Barbara M. Charles has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since she came to the Golden State from Oregon. As a Professor of English at a liberal arts college, she has encouraged and guided the talent of many young writers. Her creative confidante in writing Falling in Love has been her best friend and long time love. This is the only biography I wish to submit. Use it for any needed biographical entries needed for publication. RMP.