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Informationen zum Autor I'm married to a terrific guy who retired after thirty years as a captain on the Sacramento City Fire Department. He's my hero and a hero to a lot of other people, too. If you'd like to know more about him, he's "Rick" in Disguised Blessing, a book that came out in 2000. We have both picked up cameras again and, with great enthusiasm, embarked on a second career. We have two sons, one incredible daughter-in-law and five brilliant and beautiful grandchildren--are there any other kind? The first grandson, John, (named after his grandfather) was the inspiration for my first book for Harper, A Marriage of Convenience, which was made into a CBS movie starring Jane Seymour and James Brolin. I'm an observer, a skill developed early during my father's migrant military life. By the time our family settled in California, I was a freshman in high school and had attended seventeen different schools throughout the country. Always being the "new kid" was hard and when I set down roots, I set them deep. But there's a wanderlust in my soul that can only be satisfied by travel, and I do so as often as possible. Two cats share our house, a silver tabby Maine Coon and a grey rescue with a clipped ear, of questionable lineage. She is the seven-pound master of this universe, controlling the eleven-pound silver tabby with sheer force of will and the belief that attitude is everything. I've learned a lot from this cat. Klappentext From the author of Things Remembered and The Year Everything Changed comes a moving novel about love that lasts foreverWhat's in the past is over and done with . . . or is it? Sixteen years ago Carly Hargrove made a decision that would irrevocably alter her life. With little comprehension of the life-long consequences of her actions, she trades her own future happiness to protect the man she's loved since kindergarten, David Montgomery.With an ocean separating them, Carly builds a life for herself without David. She's the mother of three, lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a man who comes home every night--even if most of those nights he drinks too much. What more could she want?Her answer arrives on a cold fall day when David shows up at her door. In town for his father's funeral, he has come to see Carly one last time, hoping to rid himself of the anger that still consumes him.Instead, he is drawn into a web of secrets that rekindles the fierce need he once felt to protect Carly. He becomes caught up in her life in a way he never could have imagined--a way that will bind him to her forever. Zusammenfassung From the author of Things Remembered and The Year Everything Changed comes a moving novel about love that lasts forever What's in the past is over and done with . . . or is it? Sixteen years ago Carly Hargrove made a decision that would irrevocably alter her life. With little comprehension of the life-long consequences of her actions, she trades her own future happiness to protect the man she's loved since kindergarten, David Montgomery. With an ocean separating them, Carly builds a life for herself without David. She's the mother of three, lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a man who comes home every night—even if most of those nights he drinks too much. What more could she want? Her answer arrives on a cold fall day when David shows up at her door. In town for his father's funeral, he has come to see Carly one last time, hoping to rid himself of the anger that still consumes him. Instead, he is drawn into a web of secrets that rekindles the fierce need he once felt to protect Carly. He becomes caught up in her life in a way he never could have imagined—a way that will bind him to her forever. ...
