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The Marriage Epidemic: Finding True Commitment
Emerging Author, June Portnoy, Explores the True Nature of Marriage, Commitment and Career in Bold, New Novel
NEWTOWN, PA— In her new novel The Marriage Epidemic, published by Dellart(a new imprint of Harlequin), emerging author June Portnoy examines the institution of marriage as she follows a 30-year-old woman named Jennifer Greenberg, who is now starting to feel the pressure to get married when everyone around her is suddenly strutting around with diamonds on their ring fingers.
First, Jen's best friend, Stacy, arrives at her apartment, waving an engagement ring in her face, and before long, the marriage epidemic spreads to Jen's job as a senior writer at Premier Advertising, a prestigious Philadelphia advertising agency and the only place where she has always been able to escape her problems. In truth, whenever one of her few boyfriends broke up with her over the past eight years, Jen devoted all of her time and energy to her career. Ironically, Jen's mother, who hasn't shared a bed with her father since Jen was a child, and her sister, Kathy, are both determined to help Jen find a husband. Of course, the set-ups and the blind dates are all disasters in the end. As Jen approaches her 30th birthday, she begins a frantic search for a potential husband; however, instead of finding a guy looking for commitment, she finds Chris O'Reilly, a handsome, charismatic, outrageously funny guy who thrives on adventures and cringes at the idea of marriage, a man who also happens to be a high school dropout who wanders aimlessly from job to job.
Despite his flaws, Chris brings out an uninhibited, carefree side of Jen that she never knew she had. Nevertheless, she still has that other side to her that believes in stability, responsibility and marriage. Eventually, she meets Mike Robinowitz, a nice Jewish college professor who is responsible, family-oriented and interested in settling down. Excited to have such a nice guy, Jen ignores many of Mike's undesirable behaviors, which range from his sloppy love-making to his impatience with her work hours. Not long after he proposes, however, Mike asks Jen to reconsider that great advertising job in New York and she finds her mother checking out of the Ritz Carlton with a man who is definitely not her father.
Will Jen make the same mistake her mother seems to have made with her father? Will she settle for Mike or take her dream job in New York? Will she reconnect with Chris before her plane leaves and ushers her into a new future? Find out in the unexpected conclusion of Portnoy's humorous, engaging novel The Marriage Epidemic, a book that redefines romance and ambition in our modern society.
About the Author
June Portnoy received her bachelor's degree in journalism from Temple University. She has written feature articles for local, regional and national publications, many of which have been syndicated. She has also ghostwritten several e-books. The Marriage Epidemic received honorable mention in a fiction contest held by the 23rd Annual Writers' Conference at the College of New Jersey. Portnoy currently works as an assistant editor of Times Publishing Newspapers, a Bucks County publishing company. She is also a member of the Romance Writers of America. Portnoy resides in Newtown, PA with her two daughters. Though The Marriage Epidemic is her first published novel, she has already completed another women's fiction manuscript entitled Going Mad and a paranormal romance entitled Dewitched.
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