Description, Excerpt, Author Bio, Order
EBOOK ISBN: 1-928670-45-8
GENRE: contemporary romance
AUTHORS: Jim Lavene, Joyce Lavene
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DESCRIPTION: Emilie Ferrier is the last of a wealthy and powerful family. She is beautiful, dedicated to her job teaching troubled children and haunted by memories of the past. Left sterile by polio, she is desperate to adopt a child she can love and fulfill her life. But time after time, her hopes are raised, only to be dashed by the cruel realities of being a single, crippled mother. |
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Nick Garret takes
in his sister's children after a tragic accident leaves them without
parents. Uncertain about his ability to raise his young niece
and nephew, he is convinced that they need a settled life and
two parents to love them. Being raised by a single mother makes
him adamant that he will not adopt out his charges to a single
mother, no matter how wealthy. |
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REVIEWS: "Flowers in the Night is a touching, well-crafted story of two completely different people trying to overcome past hurts. Nick's cynical attitude is a perfect foil for Emilie's innocent attempts to make others happy, sometimes at her own expense." Reviewed by Denise M. Clark for Road to Romance "Despite the unassuming title, passion, humor, and surprises abound in this little treasure from Joyce and James Lavene. When Nick Garrett heads out on a highway tow call on a rainy evening to assist Emilie Ferrier, the passion begins, although Nick and Emilie are the last to see it, but the first to obstinately refuse it." Reviewed by WORD MUSEUM, 4 STARS "Flowers in the Night is a heart-warming story, and Emilie is a perfect heroine. Strength and vulnerability, independence and self-doubt, and her own unawareness of her physical and spiritual beauty combine to endear her to the reader. Nick is also appealing, harsh cynicism contrasting with loving gentleness in his character. Both protagonists hold back certain truths for a time, but essentially Emilie and Nick are moral, honest people caught in a difficult situation. There are some surprising revelations about them that readers will enjoy discovering along the way." Reviewed by Ilene Sirocca for The RunningRiver Reader |
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Excerpt: Emilie slowly poured the last glass of brandy into a hand blown glass. She'd waited patiently in the kitchen, watching for the lights from his truck for a half an hour. He was probably out celebrating with his friends or working, she decided, walking through the dark and sleeping house with a carefully soft step. If there were ghosts in the house, she was one of them. A sad wraith of a woman who had dared to love and found that it could never be returned. She sipped her brandy and walked unseeingly through the twisted corridors of the old mansion. She knew her path in the dark or the light. She'd walked those halls a hundred times. She found herself in the old ballroom, looking up through the glass ceiling at the stars twinkling madly and the crescent of the new moon. She drank her brandy and spun slowly. The sheet covered chairs and the light from the moon combined to make a kaleidoscope effect in her whirling brain. She sank down on the cold pink marble floor when she couldn't stand up anymore. Her head was bowed. One silent tear slipped down her cheek. It was no use, she thought wildly. She would always be a ghost. A crippled ghost, longing for someone she could never have. Dreaming dreams in that dusty room about things she could never have. Things that money or the Ferrier name couldn't buy her. Things she didn't even dare whisper in the secret places of her heart. "Emilie?" She looked up and saw him standing there before her. The light grazed his face, hinting at the hollow of his cheeks and the curved line of his mouth. "Are you all right?" She nodded mutely and took the hand that he offered to help her to her feet. "I thought you weren't coming back tonight." He looked at her, hearing the sorrow in her voice. He couldn't see her face clearly in the half light. "Were you dancing?" She laughed gently and ran a hand through her hair, loosening the knot on the back of her head. "I don't dance." He saw the brandy glass in her hand and took it from her unresisting fingers. He swallowed the last of the fiery spirit then set down the glass on a sheet covered table. "Why not?" he wondered. He kissed each of her hands then slid them around his neck. "I'm crip-I can't," she denied, refusing to say the words. He slipped his arms around her waist. The wool was soft against his hands as he drew her slowly to him. "My mother loved to dance," he told her. "After my father left, I was her partner." She looked up at him. The moonlight caught on the tear line from her eye to her lips. "I-I can't," she said, a catch in her voice that nearly ended on a sob. "Dance with me, Emilie," he invited in a murmur. He nuzzled her hair aside and hummed softly in her ear. |
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Author BIO: Joyce and Jim Lavene have a passion for romance and mystery! With forty novels to their credit (including the award winning Sharyn Howard mystery series) and a wide array of non-fiction articles and short stories, they are still going strong! They are active in local and national writer's groups, where they lecture and give workshops on the craft of writing. Converted Southerners, they live in North Carolina with their three children, two grandchildren, and assorted cats, dogs, computers, and herbs. They welcome readers to their website at http://www.joyceandjimlavene.com Contact email-joyce@joyceandjimlavene.com Other titles with Awe-Struck E-Books include, Flowers in the Night (nominated for the Frankfurt E-Book Award in 1999), Mask of the Stranger (Fall, 2000), Still the One (Spring, 2001), and The Singing Trees (Spring 2002) |
