Dr. John Reizer
Even though it has existed for as long as human beings have walked the realm, love remains one of the least understood experiences in our lives.
Practically everyone knows what it feels like and recognizes the symptoms almost immediately when they “fall in love.” Yet no one can fully explain why it happens or why it affects some people more deeply than others.
Love is often described as an emotion, but that definition seems somewhat inadequate. Emotions usually come and go, but love tends to take over.
“I think I love you!”
This phenomenon changes priorities, alters behavior, overrides logic, common sense, and even self-preservation. People who are otherwise careful, disciplined, and practical can suddenly find themselves making decisions that seem completely out of character.
Those who become compromised will go to extreme measures to spend a few hours with someone they barely knew a few days prior.
Some of us take enormous risks for people they barely know and attempt to rearrange their entire lives for the possibility of a future with, for all intents and purposes, a stranger.
This phenomenon is akin to an infection!
From the perspective of others not infected, the actions of the infected ones can appear irrational. To the person experiencing the infection, however, what they are doing often feels perfectly reasonable.
That’s what makes the phenomenon so fascinating. Once it takes hold, it spreads through every area of a person’s life. Thoughts become preoccupied with things that don’t make much sense, yet in the minds of the infected, that strangeness suddenly takes on enormous importance.
A person’s entire mood can rise or fall based on a single conversation. A smile or glance becomes significant, and silence can cause anxiety and concern.
The person suffering from this condition often knows exactly what’s happening and yet remains powerless to stop it.
Of course, science offers explanations for how hormones and neurotransmitters influence attraction, attachment, and bonding. The brain releases chemicals that create pleasure, anticipation, and emotional connection. While those explanations can help us understand the mechanics involved, they do not fully explain the experience.
Let’s be perfectly honest, chemical formulas can’t adequately explain why one person becomes important while millions of others remain unimportant.
No scientific equation explains why someone can occupy a person’s thoughts for years after they’ve left their lives.
The infection has inspired some of humanity’s greatest achievements and mistakes. Wars have been fought because of the infection, and amazing songs and books have been authored, too.
Businesses and lives have been built and destroyed because of love.
Entire futures have been changed because one person met another person at exactly the right or wrong moment in time.
Perhaps the strangest thing about love is that almost everyone eventually signs up for it again regardless of the havoc it might cause in their lives.
People experience heartbreak and swear they will never put themselves through it again, yet that’s exactly what they end up doing.
The truth is that love remains one of the few things that can not be fully understood from a distance. It has to be lived and experienced.
Love may not be an infection in the traditional sense, but it certainly comes with a plethora of symptoms. And, judging by human history, most of us are willing to catch it regardless of the consequences.
The Matrix is an amazing platform for biological avatars to experience many things that can only be accomplished within the parameters of a 3-D holographic simulation. Love seems to be one of those things.
Releasing in 2027
About the Book
Set against the classic backdrop of Rome, Italy, Somewhere Between Rome and Home is a gentle, uplifting contemporary romance about chance encounters and the remarkable possibilities hidden inside life’s unforeseen detours.
Readers’ Favorite Review
Reviewed by Jennifer Senick for Readers’ Favorite — September 30, 2026
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Sometimes fate intervenes when you least expect it. In Somewhere Between Rome and Home by John Reizer, Americans Nathan Wells and Stephanie Bentley both miss their flights home and find themselves stranded in Rome, Italy.
He’s an architect from Boston, she’s a teacher from Seattle, and somehow they meet at the airport after finding out they have to stay another five days while they wait for a new flight. Then they unexpectedly run into each other again at the same hotel and decide to spend the rest of their trip together.
They wander through the city, talking, laughing, and getting to know each other. What begins as two strangers making the best of an inconvenient situation slowly becomes something neither of them planned. Their conversations move from travel and work to more personal subjects, and the days they have left suddenly seem to be passing much too quickly. What will happen when it’s time for Nathan and Stephanie to leave Rome and return to their separate lives?
Somewhere Between Rome and Home immediately drew me in, and I’m glad it did because this was a great read. Plus, the title was catchy because it rhymed, and I learned there was meaning behind it. Nathan and Stephanie’s relationship grew somewhere between Rome and home.
John Reizer’s writing was descriptive. I could picture them meeting in the airport and feel their connection building as they spent more time together. I was also able to imagine the different places they visited without it seeming like that was all I was reading about.
The pacing worked well, too. This book could easily be finished in one sitting. The star of the show, though, was the chemistry between the two main characters. Nothing about them was rushed. Their conversations, jokes, and quieter moments made it easy to see why they were drawn to each other. The story brought to mind the familiar saying, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” And that’s exactly what happened to Nathan and Stephanie.
Anyone who enjoys romance, chance meetings, and tales about two people finding each other at just the right time should pick this one up.
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