Title: A Beholden Heart
Author: M.L. Steinbrunn
Genre: YA/NA Romance
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Have you ever looked around at your life and thought to yourself, this can’t be what the universe had planned for me?
This thought enters my brain…Every. Single. Day.
I have no clue what I’m supposed to be doing, but this isn’t it.
I don’t want extraordinary. I’ve never wanted extraordinary. I just want normal…whatever that is.
When I enrolled in Middleton High School, I was just looking to find some resemblance to the typical high school experience.
Then I met Matt Rhodes. He lives the life of envy: popular, athletic, top of his class. Yet he wants none of it; he would gladly give it all up to gain back everything that he’s lost.
Together we will redefine normal.
"This is my first book of 2016 and the bar has been set high indeed for those that follow. As I write this at 430AM with tears streaming down my face, I know that this book has taken my heart and changed it."- 5 Star Goodreads Review
“Thanks so much for sharing the book with me ML Steinbrunn. Thank you for the laughs, friendships and living life to the fullest. This book truly was a real inspiration …” - 4.5 Star Review Four Chicks Flipping Pages
My name is M.L. Steinbrunn and I am a young adult and contemporary romance author. My work includes the popular Redemption Series and a young adult series, which includes my new release, A Beholden Heart.
In addition to writing, I work full-time as a high school educator and coach in rural Colorado where my husband and I are raising our four young children. Through education I have enjoyed guiding others on their paths and helping students build their own stories. After countless evenings of discussing story ideas, it was my husband who encouraged me to follow my own path of self-publishing.
I want to send a huge thank you to those who have been overwhelmingly supportive of this journey.
--M.L. Steinbrunn
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Stars: 5
Heat: 1
Why do we only get 5 stars? This book should get 10!
Have you ever looked around at your life and thought to yourself, this can’t be what the
universe had planned for me?
This thought enters my brain…Every. Single. Day.
I have no clue what I’m supposed to be doing, but this isn’t it.
I don’t want extraordinary. I’ve never wanted extraordinary. I just want normal…whatever
that is.
When I enrolled in Middleton High School, I was just looking to find some resemblance to
the typical high school experience.
Then I met Matt Rhodes. He lives the life of envy: popular, athletic, top of his class. Yet he
wants none of it; he would gladly give it all up to gain back everything that he’s lost.
Together we will redefine normal.
Why do we only get 5 stars? This book should get 10!
Every now and then a book comes along that completely blows your mind. After receiving
the ARC on my Kindle, I sat down with an idea of what this story would be. After the first few
chapters, meeting Gwen, and then Matt, our two lead characters, I was intrigued by their
friendship.
Gwen is the new girl in town, the new girl at school. She's never been able to live life like a
typical teenager. When she gets a chance at life, she grabs it with both hands. Her
surprising friendship with Matt Rhodes, the most popular boy in school, takes her on a
journey like no other.
Between Gwen and Matt, they take being "normal" or "typical" to a place that no other story
has. Gwen's belief that everyone is good, and everyone deserves a chance at life and
happiness changes not only Matt's life, but Sam's (her BFF) and Spencer's (Matt's friend).
“Sometimes, all we ever want, all we ever need, is right in front of us, we just have to
open our eyes to see.”
Even though I consider this a young adult novel. Everyone, and I mean everyone, it doesn't
matter your age, when work you do, if you're still studying or if you just work from home, this
is a life lesson that will tug at your heart, have you laughing and crying, but ultimately,
wanting to life everyday as if it was a gift!
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