title: Striving for Normal
author: Mooney, B.L.
description: First in the Striving Series, but can be read alone.
  
  Normal. It was a relative term, or so I thought.
  
  After a relationship from hell that almost killed me, I didn't want another man in my life. A job, a home, and great friends were all I needed.
  
  Simple.
  
  Uncomplicated.
  
  Until two men interrupted the calm I was pretending to be.
  
  One could take me to the future--a future I never dared to dream I could have. A man who gave me a chance to smile and fix the mistakes I'd made. But, I shouldn't get a second chance at a happily ever after.
  
  The other would take me back to the past--a past I didn't want but was all I knew. After losing the most important thing in my life, I didn't deserve more than that.
  Faced with choices I didn't see coming, I knew I had to make a decision. Be thrust forward into a new life, or be held prisoner of bad choices from my old one. I was just striving for normal, but I didn't know what normal was anymore.
  
  Ages 18+ due to adult situations and violence.