The Nonnegotiable

Name: The Nonnegotiable
Author: Susan Gooch

by Susan Gooch

Genre: Romance

63 pages

Some choices define a person’s future. Others redefine their heart.

Ella Santiago, a nineteen-year-old with a MENSA-level IQ, is about to graduate from Cal Poly Tech. With a full ride to Michigan for graduate school, she is well on her way to accomplishing her dream of running a certified gold-level winery in Napa.
Ben Carrington, the only son of a former United States senator from Arkansas, is a political science graduate student. Handsome and ambitious, he’s headed for law school in Arkansas before embarking on a career in politics like his father before him.
While they couldn’t be more different, a chance encounter brings these two driven individuals together. What begins as an unexpected connection quickly deepens into something undeniable.
As their whirlwind romance intensifies, life throws them a curveball that forces both to reconsider everything they thought they wanted. Career plans, family expectations, and dreams they’ve held for years come into question. Together, they’ll have to face the impossible: choosing between the future they planned and the love they never expected.

Set against the backdrop of ambition, passion, and sacrifice, The Non-Negotiable is a powerful story about how love challenges people to reevaluate what truly matters—and the courage it takes to follow a new dream.

Because sometimes, the biggest choice a person makes isn’t what they want—it’s what they’re willing to give up to get it.

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