Passports: Atlantic Lives, 1994–1995

Twenty-nine-year-old James sees his suburban New York routine upended when twenty-four year old French Isabelle sits in front of him the first day in their University of Long Island history class. They hit it off immediately. During the next thirteen months lives change profoundly, and theirs are only the beginning. Follow a group of sometimes unlikely international friends as they grow through dealing with what comes their way. Passports is the first novel in the Atlantic Lives series. (390 pages, approx.) R. J. Nello was born in New York, raised on Long Island, and has lived and traveled in Europe for over two decades.