Ever After: A Novel (Strivers Row)

About this book

Perfection is an ideal not a person. But if perfection ever were personified it would be Jasmine. Nick Nick and Jasmine are in lovetruly madly deeply. After two years of dating Nick asks Jasmine to marry himand she says no. Nick heartbroken leaves New York for Chicago for a new job and graduate school. There Nick is forced to start all over again. He knows no one in a city of seven million people. As he winds his way through various women he becomes more and more disenchanted with his love life. A self-proclaimed romantic Nick is just not up to the conventions of the dating game. From Chicago to Atlanta to Seattle to San Francisco Nick searches for a romance that could equal the love he once felt for Jasmine. In the process stumbling through and around his cardinal rules to dating Nick becomes disillusioned and bitter. Yet through his memories of happier times with Jasmine Nick uses the past to determine his future decisions. Throughout his experiences only one question remains: Without Jasmine can he live happily ever after?