#romancecomplete

What if you could go back and do it all again?

A book length fanfiction so realistic you'll feel it really is 1965 and you are Tess Martin, in love with Paul (or are those feelings just infatuation?), and a close friend of John (or are those feelings what love really is all about?) 

A Beatles fan fiction classic! One of the originals! 

Marisol Hemingway isn't looking for love when she meets Paul McCartney on holiday in the summer of 1963. She is nursing a broken heart, and he is on the verge of international success. But the attraction between them is undeniable. Will Paul be the holiday fling everyone expects or is he destined to become the romance no one expected?

"The one you love is only a step away..." 

Lainey scoffed at the words of the old gypsy fortuneteller. Then the woman handed her a locket ring revealing her grandmother's deepest secret, and the magical ride began.

When the U.S. Air Force transfers her husband from RAF Mildenhall  to the USS Maddox in the Sea of Japan at the start of 1964, eighteen year old Annie O’Shea finds herself living on her own in a small flat in the Notting Hill section of West London.  Through her friendship with an older American couple – an up and coming film director, Dick Lester, and his wife, Deirdre – Annie takes a job as an assistant on the set of a film starring an unprecedentedly popular rock and roll group from Liverpool.  Over the short weeks of filming, her developing friendship with the group gradually draws Annie into the burgeoning scene of “Swinging London,” but it’s the growing intimacy with the group’s lead guitarist, in particular, that has Annie struggling with unexpected temptations that could end up threatening her marriage...and the future of the Beatles!

NYC, USA:  On February 7,1964, The Beatles stepped down from Pan Am Clipper, Flight 101 to the delighted screams of more than three thousand fans. Their arrival at the recently re-named JFK International Airport and their subsequent appearances on Ed Sullivan's show for the next three Sundays began, in the words of their late publicist, Derek Taylor, "the greatest romance of the twentieth century."  However, one of the Fab Four had traveled to the U.S. just four months prior, before "Beatlemania" became part of the American lexicon .  This is the story of George Harrison's  visit to Benton, Illinois and how he fell for "the girl next door."

An extremely adult (but classy and well-done) tale of Hamburg-era John and Paul, caught in a love triangle. Part one is complete. Part 2 sadly incomplete - but still worth a read!