Learning to Live

Take a trip back in time and find out how Phillip and Ava Reece meet and became the loving, hilarious couple we all know from The Living Series. Phillip Reece is the gorgeous big man on campus at Rice University. He's content with his life. He only needs three things to make him happy: a beautiful woman, a cold beer, and control. Until the day he meets Ava Parker, a beautiful sensitive woman, with a passion for art. Phillip decides Ava is exactly what he needs...someone he can mold to fit his desires. He doesn't count on the fact that she's been repressing her real personality her entire life. With Ava, what you see is definitely not what you get. Ava Parker thought college would be her get out of jail free card. Free to be away from her domineering father who wants to snuff out any happiness she has in her life. She makes a pact with herself to never be with any man she can't control. When she meets Phillip Reece, she knows one thing, she will never get involved with him beyond friendship. She puts her heart on lockdown and no matter how hard Phillip tries to find a way in, Ava resists. She knows she can't let down her guard, no matter that she's drawn to him like a moth to a flame. Ava refuses to see what kind of man Phillip really is until he takes on her father for the abuse he metes out during a disastrous visit to her family. In an instant, Ava wonders if the pact she made with herself is one colossal mistake? Can she let down her defenses and give Phillip the chance he deserves...the chance to show her how to live?