Terence Edward Nesbit, a Valparaiso University Law School graduate, recently published his second novel. Nesbit, a fan of action-thriller authors such as Robert Ludlum, has written a novel that combines the genre with romance in his second book, "My Prerogative."

"It's the story of two couples that are getting married and both the women have a past that is getting them in trouble," says Nesbit who lives in Valparaiso but originally is from New York.

As Nesbit describes his book, it disproves the axiom that everybody loves weddings.

"This is especially the case when two of the most beautiful women in the world get married on the same day, during the same ceremony," writes Nesbit in his description of the book.

"It isn't that their husbands-to-be, Corey and Pascual, care about their pasts, it's someone who is trying to break up the marriages," Nesbit says.

"And the couples have to fight through that, because all four of them have waited for their wedding day with high expectations. It all starts off with an utterance that shakes the priest and those attending the wedding, and it begins a series of events that could destroy both the newlyweds and those around them."

Nesbit says he decided to begin writing, because he loves to read. His other book, also published by Publish America, is titled "Heaven Help Me Talk to a Stranger" and is the first in an action-thriller series. Nesbit, ever prolific, currently is at work on a follow-up book to "My Prerogative."

He finds that the writing process takes about five months to create the novel and another seven months or so to finish editing it.

"I really enjoying writing," he says. "And I have a lot of stories to tell."

FYI: "My Prerogative" by Terence Edward Nesbit (Publish America 2008: $27.95); publishamerica.com.