Pierre G. Porter’s 49 So Fine is a Hot and Steamy romance novel that follows the life and hard choices that protagonist Harold Longston must make in pursuit of a soulmate.

A single force, or maybe several, however, seems to block Harold from experiencing the love beyond passion. What or who is holding him back? Is it Yvette, spotted across the room and known instantly to him as the one for him? Is it Lynn, whose second chance encounter after two years started innocently enough with a dance at the bar? Maybe his past is blocking his future. He’s come so close to finding that which he values most, but each time, seemed fate intervened. Is he too guarded now to find such a rare love that requires complete openness? Then again, maybe his bad boy habits are causing him to stumble.

Oh, Harold is no playboy, but damn if he isn’t charismatic. Can he help that he attracts women, women so fine that can it really be his fault that he walks away from fewer of them than is good for him? He does not know, but he is undeterred.

Harold Longston, a confident, educated, successful businessman, worships neither money, nor power, and maybe that’s his charm. No, he desires something far far greater, something incalculably more powerful, something without which everything else may be counted as meaningless. He seeks that true indomitable love, not the fleeting palpitations of undisciplined adrenaline, not the tired hollow vessel that endures but lists lifeless upon the vicissitudes of life, but rather the extraordinary love that is, simply put, beyond passion. Harold believes, beyond passion, that place where true lover’s spirits reign in a state of perpetual beauty, is borne from the eternal fusion of those two lovers’ spirits. Despite being rarely seen, onlookers recognize it easily and seldom mistake it for anything except the place of love and all its maturity.

Fortunately, Harold is purposeful in his pursuit, firm in his deeply held convictions, and the beneficiary of a mysterious muse who guides him in his quest in a very unique way. Is that the great music of life speaking to him? Can he hear it? Can he understand it? If he can, if he does, then Harold Longston might yet experience that love which is beyond passion, that is, if the death that is stalking him does not claim him first.