Smudged

Never judge when you don’t know the whole story. Paula learned in order to find happiness on must smudge the line between right and wrong … or erase it all together. Depressed and dealing with an abusive relationship, Paula sought self-improvement by enrolling into art courses to finish her degree she started 15-years-ago. What she hadn’t counted on was a life-alternating romance with her professor that had her breaking society rules. Rules she never thought she would break. Full of self-incrimination and doubt, Paula forsakes everything for love, but was it worth it?

Never judge when you don’t know the whole story. Paula learned in order to find happiness one must smudge the line between right and wrong … or erase it all together. Depressed and dealing with an abusive relationship, Paula sought self-improvement by enrolling into art courses to finish her degree she started 15-years-ago. What she hadn’t counted on was a life-alternating romance with her professor that had her breaking society rules. Rules she never thought she would break. Full of self-incrimination and doubt, Paula forsakes everything for love, but was it worth it?

Salado has written five novels, but this is her first foray into adult romance. While writing about this touchy subject of infidelity, her research included close personal friends who underwent life radical changes due to low esteem as a result from unseemly marriages. As she wrote this novel, Salado realized she had been guilty of judging many people's life decisions without knowing the full story and wanted to share her fictional character's very significant flaws as well motivations behind her decisions.