WHEN THE LIFE YOU BUILT COLLIDES WITH THE LOVE YOU NEVER FORGOT… EVERYTHING CHANGES.

Welcome to Cooper’s Beach — a captivating, sun-drenched novel filled with laughter, longing, charming guests, loyal staff, and a love triangle no one can stop watching. Set inside a beloved coastal inn, this emotionally rich story follows Whitney as the return of her first love awakens the question she never fully answered: can the life she built survive the love she never forgot?

Readers are calling Cooper’s Beach “a perfect escape,” “beautiful,” “immersive,” “laugh-out-loud funny,” “hard to put down,” and filled with characters you won’t want to let go.

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THE WORLD OF MONICA LOFSTROM

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Monica Lofstrom is a novelist, poet, artist, and storyteller creating emotionally resonant work at the intersection of beauty, atmosphere, memory, and human connection.

Her world is built through fiction, poetry, visual art, essays, and editorial storytelling—each piece connected by a love of emotional truth, cinematic detail, and the quiet moments that shape a life.

From the sunlit longing of Cooper’s Beach to intimate poetry, literary art, and reflective prose, Monica’s work invites readers into stories that feel both deeply personal and beautifully universal.

Her art is not separate from her writing. Her images become atmosphere. Her stories become rooms. Her characters become emotional landscapes. And her creative world becomes a place for readers, book clubs, interviewers, collaborators, and kindred spirits to gather.

Monica is available for select podcast interviews, literary conversations, book club visits, poetry readings, bookstore events, museum-connected programs, and speaking engagements centered on storytelling, creativity, beauty, emotional fiction, poetry, and the art of becoming visible through one’s work.

Step inside the work. The story is already waiting.

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THE WOMAN BEHIND THE STORIES

Monica has spent much of her life listening for the story beneath the story.

As the founder and creative director behind an international luxury magazine, she interviewed artists, entrepreneurs, designers, cultural leaders, visionaries, and public figures across the world — not simply to document what they had achieved, but to understand what shaped them.

What makes a person begin again. What beauty teaches us. What love changes. What success costs. What remains private, even in a public life.

That curiosity now forms the heart of her work as a novelist, poet, artist, and speaker.

Monica’s background gives her creative world a rare depth: editorial polish, visual beauty, emotional intelligence, and a lifelong fascination with the inner lives of people. Her books and art are not created in isolation — they are shaped by years of witnessing human ambition, tenderness, longing, reinvention, and the quiet courage it takes to become oneself.

For readers, interviewers, book clubs, bookstores, museums, and creative communities, Monica offers a conversation that moves beyond promotion and into meaning.

She does not simply talk about the book. She opens the door to the life, art, and human truth behind it.

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