Are you sure you want to erase your love?
Love
Deleted
by
Paul Indigo
Genre:
Women’s Fiction, Light SciFi, Love Story
“A
masterpiece” PH … “Absolutely amazing” BA … “The
coolest idea ever” JK … “Brilliant” EF … “Not
like anything else I’ve ever read…” AC … “Exceptionally
unique” RA … “Good luck putting this one down.” EN
… “I’m amazed it’s a debut novel” KK … “I loved it
so much I’d invite the characters to dinner.” BT
ARE
YOU SURE YOU WANT TO ERASE YOUR LOVE?
This
is an impossible love story…
Cooper
came home unexpectedly early that day. The day her world collapsed.
The day she heard things she shouldn’t have. Saw things she
shouldn’t have.
Now
Cooper is running away. Driving recklessly. Blindly. A broken heart
spiraling out of control after witnessing an earth-shattering scene.
Then
Cooper discovers the website. Speaks to the doctors. Can they help
her? Can they give her the treatment she desperately wants? Yes, they
can. They can do something mind-blowing.
They
can surgically erase her love for her husband Jethro.
Only
what appears to be the perfect solution sets off a devastating chain
of events not only for Jethro and herself. But one also involving
their teenage son Daniel, in ways she can’t imagine.
A
life-shattering moment. A rash decision. An easy solution. This isn’t
just a love story. Not when a heart isn’t just broken, it is
irreversibly silenced.
This
is an impossible love story.
*Amazingly,
this novel was inspired by the latest in genuine, cutting-edge
medical technology.
THE FUTURE
“WILL IT HURT?”
“No, Mrs McMillan, it won’t hurt.”
“You’re sure?”
“Positive.”
“And it really works?”
Mrs. Erica McMillan’s eyes are red, gritty, sore. She’s crumpled and defeated. She cried all morning. She cried for months. For a man she gave her life to. She’s hopeful the treatment will solve all her problems.
They’re in Dr. John Applegate’s office. Dr. Applegate sits behind a glass desk. He pushes his wire glasses up his nose.
“Yes Mrs. McMillan, the treatment really works.”
Dr. Applegate knows most patients come through the doors looking fragile, wishing on a dream, not quite understanding the treatment, not sure they believe it even. Now the pain in Mrs. McMillan darkens into spiteful, narrow eyes.
“I want to forget him. I want my husband gone from my memory.” The hate boils inside her for what her husband did to her. How dare he. How dare he. She almost spits the next words out.
“I don’t want to know that man exists anymore.”
Dr. Applegate takes this in. He gets this a lot – misunderstanding. The people who sit opposite are exhausted. Weary. Burnt out. In pain. Emotionally, bitterly confused. This treatment is a last lunge at hope. He clears his throat.
“Mrs. McMillan, I’m afraid you’re thinking of the movie The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.”
Dr. Applegate’s seen the film a dozen times himself. The film starts where Kate Winslet’s ended a troubled relationship with Jim Carrey, and he soon discovers – when she doesn’t recognise him at a counter – she has had her memory of him deleted.
Mrs McMillan frowns in confusion.
“Isn’t that what you do? Make people forget the person they love? Isn’t that what you did with Cooper Hall?”
Cooper Hall. The woman who made the clinic accidentally famous because of her unusual request that resulted in the media frenzy.
“No I’m afraid not, Mrs. McMillan.”
The confusion deepens.
“But please don’t despair. I said we can’t erase your memory of your husband. I didn’t say what we can do. We do something so much better.”
“What is it you do then?”
This is the part Dr. Applegate enjoys, giving his patients back the emotional control they so crave. Giving them back command of their lives far from the emotions tearing them apart. He leans forward.
Mrs. McMillan leans forward.
He places his elbows on the desk.
She waits, expectant.
He steeples his long fingers.
“It’s simply this Mrs. McMillan. We erase your love.”
I’m
a British author who loves page-turners. It doesn’t have to be a
thriller. It can be anything, I just want to feel that desperate urge
to turn the page. And if it grabs me on the first page…or the first
paragraph…or the first sentence…Well! All the better.
I
worked in the television industry for many years. However, though
I’ve worked with words all my life, I’ve only recently decided to
do something with it. I have a love of radio dramas and audio books
and my writing has been heavily influenced by both.
I
live on the English coast and love sea and nature reserve walks
whenever I get the opportunity (at least once a week, sometimes
more). I also love to wake early, long before the rest of the world
has caught up with me.
This looks like an amazing love story. Thanks for hosting this.
It does look interesting, doesn’t it? I think people who like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind should like this. I like the light sci-fi twist on it all too. Thanks for your comment!
I like the cover art, synopsis and excerpt, Love Deleted sounds like a story that I will enjoy reading. Thank you for sharing the author’s bio and the book details
Thank you, Bea!
I would ask the author what inspired him to write this story.