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Welcome to Nora Roberts\'\\xa0Opposites Attract! Their names are, and I am not kidding, Ty Starbuck and Asher Wolfe.\\xa0 They are tennis champs!\\xa0 Second chance romance!\\xa0 Will they go all the way (heh)?\\xa0 Well table (tennis) that because BUCKLE UP BUTTERCUP to our shock and disgust this is a surprise abortion-shaming book!

Seriously, we wanted to do a fun sports book where they\'re both athletes!\\xa0 Summer!\\xa0 Tennis whites!\\xa0 Tennis puns!\\xa0 NO.\\xa0 Content warnings abound: half the people in this book has gone no contact with the heroine without her knowledge because her abusive ex lied that she had an abortion! (I shouldn\'t have to say this, but if she HAD had an abortion that would have been entirely her right and her decision.\\xa0 But she didn\'t!)\\xa0 In fact she had a miscarriage after he... maybe tried to kill her?\\xa0 It\'s unclear! Don\'t worry, the book doesn\'t care! Her father hasn\'t spoken to her since, and he\'s also her tennis coach! She has no idea! Also the dude is kinda grabby in that romance novel way, and when he thinks (ugh god this is so fucking enraging) that he knows what happened he shakes her and fantasizes about slapping her.\\xa0 You, the reader, know none of this for the first 80% of this book! There\'s lots of sex but it\'s really boring! Probably there was more awful stuff in this but I have a hard time keeping anything in focus after the big one!

The ability to decide when and if to have children and what happens to your body is a fundamental human right.\\xa0 Forcing people into\\xa0 being broodmares for the state is a dire obscenity and, if there is such a thing, a grievous sin.\\xa0 Are you mad?\\xa0 I\'m mad.\\xa0 If you want to directly help people who can become pregnant retain control over their lives, consider donating or volunteering at a direct action abortion fund.\\xa0 Abortion funds act to directly fund procedures and often give direct support to enable pregnant people to travel, get child care, escape intimate partner violence, and handle whatever they need to handle to terminate a pregnancy.\\xa0 To donate nationally, give to abortionfunds.org.\\xa0 If you want to give to a fund local to us, the\\xa0Carolina Abortion Fund\\xa0serves both South and North Carolina. And as always, subscribing as a monthly donor multiplies the value of your dollar immensely because it\'s money they can budget for.\\xa0\\xa0

Don\'t forget to keep calling your elected officials, too.\\xa0 Even if they\'re absolute wastes of skin.\\xa0 (Believe me, Lindsey Graham is my senator.)\\xa0 They tally their calls and every one counts.\\xa0\\xa0

Try to take care of yourselves and remember, you\'re not alone.\\xa0 There are a lot of us out here and we are not done fighting.