LOVE BETWEEN THE DOWNBEATS is a Healing-Power-of-Love/Coming-Into-Her-Own Romance set in modern-day Atlanta. Claire Domantas, a software engineer with a devoted boyfriend and her own condo in the city, seems to have it all until depression nearly takes everything away. Leo Worthington is a champion Lindy Hop dancer with a big heart hiding behind a mean streak. The story follows Claire's struggles to learn to swing dance, get through the downbeats of life, deal with buried trauma, and find ...

I graduated university last year (somehow despite all else) but I was still a student when this all happened to me. And I must say that if I didn’t write this book I would feel like I deserved everything that was done to me.I remember I was numb as I walked through the airport. I didn't want to feel my body. I didn't want to feel anything. I felt like there was a monster inside me that made the walls of my sanity shake hard, almost crumbling to pieces. I had a layover in Iceland, w...