title: Inspiring Love: Three Romantic Reads
author:  Nadine C. Keels 
description: Nadine. A French name, meaning, hope. With her lifelong passion for life-enriching fiction, Nadine C. Keels enjoys reading and writing everything from short stories to novels. Her fiction works include Love Unfeigned and The Movement of Crowns Series, and select pieces of her lyrical poetry can be found on her spoken word album, Hope. Lyricized. As the founder of Prismatic Prospects, her communication company, Nadine has served as editor for a number of titles, and through her writing, from her books to her blog posts, she aims to help spark hope, inspiration, and genius in as many as she is privileged to reach.
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  ## [MAP](9780062433305_Contents.xhtml#r_idParaDest-1)
  
  
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  ## [DEDICATION](9780062433305_Contents.xhtml#r_idParaDest-2)
  
  
  __For Casi, the one who taught me about love__
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## [CHAPTER 1](9780062433305_Contents.xhtml#r_idParaDest-3)
  
  
  WHEN OUR STORY BEGAN, I THOUGHT I KNEW LOVE.
  
  
  Love was a mind that moved quickly from one thought to the next, eyes an
  inimitable blue that lay somewhere between morning glories and glaciers, and a
  hand that tugged me along as we raced laughing through the woods. Love was the
  way she buried her hands in my hair and I lost mine in the dark waves of hers,
  and how she kissed me until we fell in a hot tangle atop the blankets in the
  back of the cave I called home. Love was the warmth kindled by her touch,
  lingering in me long after the first snow fell and she had gone for th