Nicolas Paul Thomas, the highly gifted, boy-next-door artist believed that his career in country music had plateaued. That was until he found new love and magic in the recently disengaged, yet, still unavailable, Cinderella of his dreams. Katie Lynn Moore popped into Nick Thomas's life one night in one of his meet and greet lines, in lieu of her niece, who at the last moment, before meeting her idol, got cold-feet. This jolt-giver's touch from her lit him up, setting him on a path of winning his one true love, which could only be accomplished by him learning the true definition of the word love. Eight years after Katie's late-husband's treacherous drug-induced death in the bed of a groupie, Nicolas Paul had vowed never to break her already fragile, jigsaw-puzzled heart, ignorant of what sudden super-stardom's effect on a self-proclaimed fence-rider. Katie fell crazy in love with the sweet boy from Nashville, labeled by her as a grandfather's treasure. With a depressed former fiancé back home in Kentucky, Katie was unable to pursue a new and wonderful exciting love with Nicolas Paul, but vowed to return to him when her beloved deputy was back up on his feet, and he could accept with grace the truth that his Katie-bear would never be his Mrs. Wells. In Running from Love, during that magical date night, both Nick and Katie share with each other exquisite and intimate portraits of their lives. Both their tender and tragic pasts draw their hearts to one another in not only a heart-stopping romantic love, but an emotionally-rich friendship. Nick inspired his shy Teach, as he nicknamed her, to share her rich Agape love with fellow hurting souls, sharing her substantially compassionate persona, hiding behind the pages of a book, which became a record-setting viral book. Her gut-wrenching story, along with her words of wisdom and her witty candor catapulted this obscure kindergarten teacher to instant fame against her will. Likewise, with the proper love's muses behind his craft as taught to Nick by Katie, he would go on to produce a record-setting album titled, LOVE'S MUSES, inspired of course by his new deep abiding love. Running from Love is the first in the LOVE'S MUSES series and begins at the Cheapside Bar and Grille in Lexington, Kentucky during Katie's traditional birthday celebration, on Valentine's night, two years after that magical date. Two years have past, and Nicolas Paul, feeling abandoned by his Teach, as well as ill-effected by sudden super-stardom, became so deeply submerged into the subconscious of the more obnoxious drunken playboy persona of the superstar Nick Thomas. Sadly, the sweet boy from Nashville was irretrievable by any of his close family or friends. His grief and new party lifestyle birthed an over-indulgent, egomaniac and an embittered man. He found himself trapped in a vicious cycle of drowning his pain and groupie-groping-guilt in the bottom of a darkened beer bottle. The LOVE'S MUSES series exquisitely portrays the heroes in our lives; the ones who love, encourage, and have the courage to reproach when necessary. The rich emotionally and entirely realistic characters in LOVE'S MUSES are flawed, tender, and funny, causing the reader to laugh at their hilarity, cry from the tenderness, and empathize characters who are fictional in theory, but live inside all of us.
About the Author: Kristina L. Allen is the mother of eight children ranging from ages 27 years-old down to 6 years-old. Kristina has a passion for children and is hoping that Love's Muses will be the catalyst to building dormitories in Third World Nations, homes for special needs and adults, and for homeless veterans. She calls this her Jubilee Dream, based on Leviticus 25, and every penny of the royalties funnels straight into her Jubilee Dream Foundation she founded. Becoming an author was never her dream, but philanthropy has been, therefore, the LOVE'S MUSES books are only a means to an end for this reluctant author, as she calls herself.