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Letting go is the hardest part of moving on. In the world of
business, her touch is like magic, but that's as far as it goes.
She feels trapped by her own history and yearns for what once was,
but is afraid to confront what might be. Set in the mad whirlwind
of New York City, 'Johnson Canyon' is the closing chapter of the
Delsey Trilogy, where opposites often repel and endings never have
the last say. She helps others find happiness, but for her it seems
elusive and fleeting. Even her best friend is frustrated by her
reluctance to deal with her own misgivings. The NYC-based story
opened with 'Bridge to Someday' and continued with 'Delsey.'
Her awful secret is safe with her devoted brother, although her
best friend suspects all is not as it seems. Each tries to protect
her from the consequences of her own impulses, but in the final
crush they both fail. Delsey Roberts, beautiful and headstrong but
haunted and capricious, resists romantic entanglement until she
falls for the brilliant but clueless computer programmer and music
lover Harvey Jackman. This tangled tale roams from the streets of
Hell's Kitchen to the sands of the Big Sur, exploring the emotional
peaks and valleys of what seems to be the perfect couple's intimate
relationship, and the relentless forces that drive it to calamity.
Set in the fogs of Down East Maine, Monument Lot tells the story of
the passionate and beautiful Alice Wyman. Blocked from the musical
career she aches to achieve, she is held back by her own
deep-seated fear of surrendering her independence. Even worse, she
sees her husband, aficionado of murder mysteries from an earlier
era, as part of the problem. He desperately wants to help her - his
fourth wife - to resolve her conflicts, but is stymied by her
headstrong personality. That is, until she very nearly loses him.
Set in the easternmost town in the United States, the trail leads
through the Hell's Kitchen gourmet heaven to a detective-story
conclusion.
Her first husband, the one she now sorely regrets having abandoned,
is safely in the arms of another woman. On the rebound from the
disaster of her second marriage, beautiful, talented, and haunted
Delsey Walker decides that love is not for her. That is, until her
life is changed again, only this time by a five-year-old girl. The
second book of the Delsey Trilogy picks up the story from the
cataclysmic ending of Bridge to Someday. Death, recovery, rebirth
and personal growth; all are examined within the framework of the
intimate lives of these very private individuals.
On the rebound from a failed love affair, Cecelia meets Matt,
Acadian son of a remote land where fog banks materialize without
warning, magic lamps are real, spirits play chess with mortals, and
family ties span generations. During her brief vacation trip into
Down East Maine, she finds just how different Washington County is
from her native Boston. Neap Tide takes the reader on a journey
deep into the land of twenty-four foot tides, gaily painted but
deceptively dangerous fishing boats, and submerged prejudices that
surface when least expected. A New Englander and full-time resident
of Maine's Washington County, the author drew on personal
experience in crafting this novel.
Egad! Twenty Short Stories, every one of them involving folks
getting it on. What's not to like? Novelist JD Rule lets his
authorial pants down in this retrospective collection of his
earliest explorations into the panoply of human emotions. Each
story dives into a different aspect of who we are as individual
players on a stage normally set for two, with a set of characters
who wander in and out of the various tales, sometimes meeting at
the mythical Murphy's Bar and Grille, and sometimes not. The only
thing they have in common is that none of them know what to do
next, and each is driven by the primary urge that defines the human
condition.
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