Roe writes contemporary romantic fiction – it conveniently balances out their real-life pragmatism. Roe works as a motion graphics artist, loves Jane Austen, Douglas Adams and everything in between, preferably by the fireplace with a strawberry daiquiri in hand. Equipped with a dark sense of sarcasm, they left for Germany and later, Spain.įinally, they settled in Sweden, where the weather is nasty but the freedom great. Roe was born in former Czechoslovakia and endured a miserable adolescence in the post-communist wasteland. But when his friends begin drifting away, his beloved protégé becomes independent, and the man who bereaved Simon of his precious sanity might return… Simon’s mind and body stop responding to his impressive willpower. He’s managed so far-as long as he is needed, as long as his work makes a difference, Simon can scrape together enough strength to get up in the morning and run off the nightmares. Since that day, every minute of Simon’s life has been a struggle to remain sane, functioning. His ill-advised, secret affair with a student left Simon deeply wounded. Not many know of that one time in the past when The Cruel Doctor Frost lost his cool. And sanity can be found in work, restraint, and self-control. His students call him The Cruel Doctor Frost not because he’s unkind, but because of his unwavering, ice-cold composure. This love was a flesh-eating monster, sharp-clawed and evil-eyed, ravishing his mind with medieval cruelty.ĭr Simon Mráz is a respected specialist and lecturer at the Charles University in Prague. Whether it was his Catholic upbringing or the poetry he’d read-Simon had thought that true love would be uplifting, fulfilling, that it would give a meaning to his loitering, and add joy to his leisure. Simon had always expected love to feel different than this. I’d like to welcome Roe Horvat to my blog today with the low down on his new release, A Love Song for the Sad Man in the White Coat.

Unexpected by Roe Horvat