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Kathleen Mary O’Brien’s career in journalism began as a columnist for a regional newspaper in the PNW, and encompassed travel writing, interviews, and news articles for many major publications. Her novels have received critical acclaim and she is an active member of the PNW writing community. Kathleen lives with her family on an island in Puget Sound, where she is working on her next novel in the World of Love Series, as well as an epic World War II novel.

Boston model Christine McMurray knows the fi ery car crash she survives is career-ending. She knows it before she sees the slash on her face and the burn scars on her body, even before she tries to walk on her damaged leg. She hears the truth in her beauty-obsessed father’s discussion of reconstructive surgery and her fi ancé’s excuses for avoiding hospital visits. After a lengthy hospitalization and convalescence, Christine’s physical scars have begun to heal but emotionally she is still fragile. She seeks respite at photographer Anders Larsson’s Montana ranch, where the raw beauty and sweeping landscape rekindles her desire to paint. In time, she buys land with the intention of building a home and artist studio. While the house is being constructed, she returns to Boston and Cape Cod to pack up her old life. There she meets and mentors a young burn victim, renews a high school friendship and has an encounter with her ex-fi ancé that jeopardizes her return to Montana. Christine regresses more than once during her journey to fi nd new meaning in her life, but eventually discovers her inner compass points outward and west. A Light in the Heart is a complex, inspirational story of living through pain and loss to fi nd purpose and love.

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Category: Romance; Literature & Fiction

Cassie Graham is living a lost life, when her mother and stepfather are killed in a car accident. Soon she is faced with a choice: sell the restaurant her mother and stepfather worked so hard to make a success or say goodbye her old life for a new one in a small village on the southern coast of France. Soon Cassie is running the restaurant and living a life she never dreamed of. But when a large destination wedding party books the restaurant for a special dinner, Cassie comes face-to-face with Ian Belford, an old flame from college, who left her without a word. Add to the humiliation, he doesn’t remember her. Ian is a national network sports announcer and ex-pro-football star whose life is about as far from her quiet life as possible. So no one is more surprised than Cassie when Ian pops up everywhere she is, flirting, and pursuing her. Resisting him is impossible and soon Cassie is in his arms again. But she is fragile when it comes to love, and vulnerable, unwilling to give her heart when she knows all too well Ian is a lover who leaves.

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Category: Romance; Literature & Fiction

Their past is complicated. Three years after the devastating death of her new husband, dancer Samantha Driscoll is on a train traveling between France and Barcelona, when she sees a man she will never forget. Dr. Ronan Adair, the man who fought and failed to save her husband Peter’s life. Ronan never forgot the beautiful young bride whose bright dreams and future came to an end on that day. Again, he saw the hollow pain in her eyes on the train, and he would do anything to take the pain away. As the train pulls into the station, Fate steps in, and again a few days later. Soon they form a tender friendship that Sammy realizes is changing into something more. But their past is a difficult one to overcome, even when faced with the promise of new love, waiting; waiting for them to take a chance and reach for it...

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Category: Romance; Literature & Fiction