title: Life in Plan B
author: Jennifer Vessells
description: After practicing law for nearly three years, Jennifer Vessells decided to temporarily leave the practice to pursue her dream of writing and publishing a novel. After an intensive year and a half of writing, Ms. Vessells presented her debut novel to the world in July 2013 - a story that's been marinating since her early college days. Passionate about women's fiction and children's chapter books, Ms. Vessells plans to publish more books in the future, while balancing a law career and a young daughter. Keep your eye out for more exciting publications from this author in the future!
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  >  _For Elizabeth and Lauren Wishing the two of you a lifetime of happiness_
  
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  Jamie was in his room on the second floor of his mother’s small Cape Cod house
  in Saddle River, New Jersey, when his life changed.
  
  For a while he had been looking out the window to watch Kerry Dowling’s
  backyard. She was having a party and Jamie was mad because she hadn’t invited
  him. When they wer