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And now, welcome back Vincent Zandri! He’s joining The Naked Hero for a return visit and today he’s stripping down Rebecca Underhill, heroine of his new book, The Remains.
Stripping Down Rebecca
Rebecca Underhill is a artist and an art teacher who has lost what’s most precious in her life, including her twin sister Molly who was a powerful presence in her life up until her untimely death to cancer. She and Molly shared a dark and tragic past. When they were 12 years old, they were abducted by a man named Joseph William Whalen in the thick woods behind their parent’s farmhouse. The two were kept inside a basement in an abandoned house and attacked by Whalen. Later, after they managed to make their escape, they vowed to keep the episode a secret for fear Whalen would find out and come back to kill them or worse, their parents. Now it’s thirty years later, and Rebecca is receiving some strange anonymous text messages. With Whalen having been arrested and sent to New York’s Green Haven Prison not long after their abduction, Rebecca has always assumed that he died behind bars. But what she doesn’t realize is that Whalen has been released. He’s free, and soon she will comes to realize that her past hasn’t come back to haunt her, it’s come back to kill her.
The Goddess’s Perspective
Rebecca’s ex-husband Michael remains a strong presence in her life despite the fact that they divorced several years prior to the novel’s opening chapter. Michael is a writer and a novelist, whose only published novel, The Hounds of Heaven, did quite well for a first effort. Only problem was that Michael proceeded to drink and party like he’d won the Pulitzer Prize. Having wasted all his royalties on drugs and drink, a nervous collapse landed him passed out at the landing to the Hemingway House in Key West, Florida. A personal bankruptcy and a stay in a Poughkeepsie, New York, sanitarium would lead to a divorce from the distraught and very broke Rebecca. Yet later on, the two would remain close because Michael would find that without his now ex-wife by his side, he had no muse. Now, he’s got his life back together and he’s once more working on a new novel while using Rebecca’s apartment for a his studio. As Whalen gets closer and closer to Rebecca, Michael not only helps protect his ex from danger, but he also falls back in love with her. For a brief and happy time the two manage to become as one again.
Your Herculean Task
If given the chance, could you fall back in love with your ex? 
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Welcome back Vincent!!! OOOoooooo….can you give us a little detail on why Michael needs to try to save Rebecca? From what???
AND NO!!!!!! I’d never give up my life now to go back to an ex. If he wasn’t such a jerk, I’d still be with him~right?!
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That sounds like a super good book!
I would never go back to an ex. As they say “They are an ex for a reason”. None of my ex’s would ever be worth tradeing what I have now! I think even if I were single and trying to date… I would never go back to any of MY ex’s.
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Ooh, sounds like a book I’d like to read! I need to check it out.
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Exactly, no one ever goes back to their ex’s. Or do they? In my case, life is stranger than fiction in that when my ex and I split, we never left one another’s side. We still spent everyday together, lots of nights, and did almost everything together (we have a 5 years old daughter together who was a baby at the time). We had a very difficult 3 year marriage because at the time, my publisher had folded, and it looked like I was starting over from scratch, and in a word, I was out of work in a major funk. It became more like divorce by committee (IE her parents who never wanted her to marry a writer in the first place). Our life resembles that Showtime series Californication so precisely, that we both have gotten together to watch it on occasion. We swear someone wrote it about us. In any case, we’re both seeing other people right now, but our hearts are still with one another. So, to answer the question, ex’s do get back together, but it’s rare. Will my ex and I reunite one day? Very possibly. In the case of The Remains, Rebecca’s ex Michael needs to be writing within the proximity of his ex-wife in order to FEEL his muse. When danger arrives in the form of the man who once abducted her, Michael, being a detective writer acts as a kind of amateur detective, helping sort out clues to what is happening, and helping protect the woman he still desperately loves.
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PS. I’m totally willing to ditch the ex is Tonya suddenly becomes single again
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Welcome back Vincent…I can say I would never go back to my ex. When he first left me with 3 kids, no money, lots of bills to be with another woman, because he said he could feel the spark with her and not me, I considered it. Really I did. I was frightened, alone, borrowing money from my parents to put food on the table, so when he came back and said, things weren’t what he thought they’d be with the other one, I seriously considered it. But then I noticed how peaceful my house was, how at peace I was. I was no longer walking on egg shells, waiting for him to explode, (which he did quite often) even the kids didn’t want him back. The struggles were worth the payment for peace. My oldest told me to go on welfare, before taking him back, which was a real possibility. I cowgirled up and said no. To say the least, he was shocked. Because of my situation, and kids, he really thought I’d buckle and let him come home. Instead, I applied with the Sheriff’s Department, was hired as a deputy. With that single move I could support myself, with benefits, met my now husband on the job, and am living happily ever after 25yrs later, retired. As for him, well, he married the other woman, because as he accused me, “I left him no other choice.” The choice was if he left her, he’d have to take care of himself, something he didn’t want to do. So he married her, quit his job, (a well paying job as a engineer) and she does take of him, 100%. No thank you. I like retirement, and Poppy hanging around the house.
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Heeeey, Vin. How’s one of my favorite guys doing?
Go back to an ex? hmmm. Depends upon whether I really loved him. If the feelings aren’t there any more? Or the reasons you left are present? No. You have to have something to work with, you know?
This sounds like another fabulous story from you. I enjoyed Moonlight Falls, btw.
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Welcome back Vincent. Too much water under that bridge. Every story, every event that my daughter tells me lets me know how lucky I was to escape with my sanity intact.
Good wishes for great sales for your book.
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So good to have you here, Vincent!
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Hey thanks all,
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It’s good to be back….Remains has hit the top 100 bestsellers in Romantic Suspense and Hard Boiled books today, so I’d love to keep that going….and Hey, as for the ex’s, I think we all know it’s best to move on in life, unless there is some kind of love that just cannot be avoided…Far as my situation goes, who knows, but I don’t dwell on the past….It’s always about what’s ahead
V
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