Hello, Rest of My Life

Clean Romance

by Rick Lenz

A TIMELESS LOVE STORY

When Danny Maytree, an ambitious young 1970s film actor, met Samantha on a blind date and fell in love, he decided he no longer cared about Tinseltown stardom. He still acted sometimes, but he became a writer too.

Now married and in their seventies, they find a dog whose faded tag has the name “Tali” and a Beverly Hills phone prefix from fifty years earlier.

Writing a time travel novel in 2021, Danny gets a call from a mysterious, velvet-voiced acting agent. He has a meeting tomorrow in Beverly Hills. Tali, in one of their singular “conversations,” questions Danny’s motives.

Now, Danny is in Beverly Hills-not at the meeting, but in the elegant home where he lived in 1974, forty-seven years ago. He is twenty-seven again, bewildered, but with a second chance at his Hollywood dream.

He doesn’t want it, because Sam is not in this world.

Unhappy in his new “now,” he realizes his journey back to “Kansas” hinges on the magic of film. A sharkish agent helps him navigate Hollywood’s rocky shoals. A worldly-wise teen and a New Age fortune-teller offer spiritual advice. And a sexy wicked witch throws a monkey wrench in his path.

REVIEW

5 out of 5

This book will take you on a captivating and spiritual journey through time. It opens with a sweet couple, deeply in love, in the modern era. Then we follow Danny back in time, where he stands at an important crossroads. One path will lead him back to the happiness he has already found in 2021, one can take him to stardom. All the colorful characters that populate this story were wonderful and memorable. I absolutely loved every moment of this book. A beautiful work of literary fiction with some romantic elements woven in.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I’ve spent the greatest part of my life as a writer and actor. Most of the acting was to make a living and raise my family. I have been a writer longer than I’m comfortable saying. I do it because it gives me joy, whether it’s playwriting, or in the last dozen years, writing books. Like a lot of people, I’m told, I threw away my first attempts at books—maybe two medium length novels. I hope readers come away from my stories knowing something they didn’t know before, having been entertained, and wishing it didn’t have to come to an end.

To see what I’m doing now, please visit www.ricklenz.com. Thanks!

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