*~*Love Note: Max to Ava – Work of Art Series by Ruth Clampett*~*
In a life driven by passion, famed artist Maxfield Caswell lives in a world of brilliant color and drama, pushing his art and affairs to his emotional edge. He’s stunning, charismatic and celebrated in the art world, but are the trappings of fame also destroying him?For years intelligent and bright-eyed Ava Jacobs has worked diligently toward a career in the art world. Ava is swept off her feet when she meets the passionate artist. She soon realizes, however, that he’s on a destructive path—one she doesn’t intend to join him on.In the decadent world of patrons, art groupies, and predators, feisty and beautiful Ava knocks Max off his pedestal. A stunned Max sees something special in Ava and offers her an opportunity she can’t refuse. As their lives and passions collide, will he realize that she alone has the power to heal him? Can their hearts come together to create their own work of art?
Famed artist, Maxfield Caswell is missing.
Three of his major paintings have been savagely defaced and his house left in ruins. As his friends search for him, does his muse, Ava, hold the key?
Before the hope of love is lost, secrets will be told, spirits will be broken, and a price will be paid.
From the cave dwellings of New Mexico to the shores of Malibu, Max and Ava’s journey tests them to their limits. As they render passion and pain in broad strokes, will their all-consuming love rise from the debris?
Max’s Love Note blew me away…
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Dear Ava,
When I was ten I asked my mother what it felt like to be in love. She told me love was warm and bright, like being filled with sunlight. She said that when my special girl looked at me I would be filled with happiness and everything in my world would look brighter. I realized later that mom was a hopeless romantic but at the time I clung to her every word.
I was too young to fully imagine these ideas, but I interpreted it with what I loved at most…art. I imagined what I would feel like to step inside a painting and my love would be waiting for me. What if the girl with the pearl earring was mine? She would look at me with her knowing eyes and I would see love inside their luminous depth. Then slowly she would unwind her head wrap until her hair cascaded around her shoulders. I would take her hand and draw her out of the canvas and into my world. I’d never be alone again.
So when I met you Ava, I knew I had to paint you as my angel. I wanted to capture you in a canvas until it was time for me to step inside and pull you into my arms. You are a work of art, my Mona Lisa and my Botticelli Venus all wrapped up into a breathtaking masterpiece. Your beauty, grace and loving heart are the shades and color that render the joy in my life.
One afternoon we were driving Pacific Coast Highway with the top down and I glanced over to see your hair whipping around as you gazed out at the ocean. You had a serene look on your face. I rested my hand on your thigh and asked you what you were thinking about. You turned to me with tearful eyes and said, “Sometimes I can’t believe that you’re my man.” You squeezed my hand and turned back toward the view.
You couldn’t have known at that moment what those words did to me.
It was everything.
I suddenly felt rooted to the earth in a way I never had been. I glanced down and for a moment the invisible threads that connected our hearts shimmered in the falling sunlight. My eyes glazed as my left hand gripped the steering wheel and I knew that was a moment I’d always remember. I was full of sunlight and everything was brighter, just like mom had told me all those years ago.
The Valentine paper hearts and colored candies are right…I am yours. You are mine. This is love and it’s everything.
I love you Ava.
Max
Ruth Clampett, daughter of legendary animation director Bob Clampett, grew up surrounded by artists and animators. A graduate of Art Center College of Design, she has been VP of Design for Warner Brothers Studio Stores and taught photography at UCLA. Today she runs her own studio and as the Fine Art publisher for Warner Brothers Studios has come to know and work with some of the world’s greatest artists in the fields of animation and comics.
From this colorful background comes Ruth’s first novel, Animate Me, a fun and sexy, unique and engaging contemporary romance.
Ruth lives and works in Los Angeles, strictly supervised by her teenage daughter, who helps plan their summer around their yearly pilgrimage to the San Diego Comic Con.
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