Gabrielle Nichole Sessoms

A Not So Simple Ballad Gabrielle Nichole Sessoms

Marigold Ballad has always played by the rules living a life that spells perfection. She's beautiful, privileged and married to her high school sweetheart. Her life changes abruptly when her father is sent to prison for embezzlement and her husband leaves her for the company of another woman. Life as she knows it begins to perish before her eyes and Marigold is catapulted into the intrigues of three very dissimilar men: Rio Acosta, a 34-year-old NYU professor who is the epitome of tall, dark and handsome with daring desires Marigold can't even fathom; Nathan Steven, a 24-year-old bad boy with an incomprehensibly painful past; and Jackson Hale, a 27-year-old poet, writer, and singer with a heart of gold and a voice that is sure to make you fall irrevocably head-over-heels. Follow Marigold throughout Manhattan-the city that never sleeps-on this sexy, uplifting, edgy, and romantic journey of reclaiming herself as she explores the single life for the first time in her adult life.