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The Art of Rivers(Coastal Hearts #3)
By Janet W. Ferguson
Christian Contemporary Romance
Paperback & ebook, 299 Pages
June 30th 2019 by Southern Sun Press LLC
Rivers Sullivan bears both visible and invisible scars—those on her shoulder from a bullet wound and those on her heart from the loss of her fiancé during the same brutal attack. Not even her background as an art therapist can help her regain her faith in humanity. Still, she scrapes together the courage to travel to St. Simons Island to see the beach cottage and art gallery she’s inherited from her fiancé. When she stumbles upon recovering addicts running her gallery, she’s forced to reckon with her own healing.
After the tragic drowning of his cousin, James Cooper Knight spends his days trying to make up for his past mistakes. He not only dedicates his life to addiction counseling, but guilt drives him to the water, searching for others who’ve been caught unaware of the quickly rising tides of St. Simons. When he rescues a peculiar blond woman and her sketch pad from a sandbar, then delivers this same woman to his deceased grandmother’s properties, he knows things are about to get even more complicated.
Tragic circumstances draw Cooper and Rivers closer, but they fight their growing feelings. Though Cooper’s been sober for years, Rivers can’t imagine trusting her heart to someone in recovery, and he knows a relationship with her will only rip his family further apart. Distrust and guilt are only the first roadblocks they must overcome if they take a chance on love.
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Excerpt
“Now you’ve stopped moving.” Cooper tipped her
chin. “Is all this too much? I’m worried about you.”
Her gaze pulled to study him. His beautifully
sculptured face lingered near, those dark eyes and that black hair framed by
the night sky lighted only by the twinkling stars of the Milky Way. Then her
gaze fell to his contoured lips and held there as if some giant magnet drew
her.
“Rivers, throw me a bone or scrap or something.
I need to know what’s going on in here.” His fingers grazed her forehead, only
increasing the magnetic force pulling her toward him.
There was no way she could believe the yearning
that was going on in her mind, much less tell him.
Because right now, all she wanted was to kiss
this man. Cooper. She wanted to kiss
away his years of isolation from his family, his years of being picked on as a
child, his years of disappointment for always being considered less than
Jordan, his years of emotional pain mixed with the chemical processes and the
fallen world that had led him toward the excruciating path of addiction.
But not only did she want to kiss those hurts
away, she wanted to kiss the man who’d rescued her, who’d fed her, who’d made
her laugh. The compassionate man who spent his days trying to reach the lost
and hurting. The man whose art moved her so.
But this inclination—no, this formidable
craving—had to be wrong. Her emotions had to be muddied with everything going
on.
Cooper was her fiancé’s cousin. It would be
wrong to fall for him. Wouldn’t it?
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About the Author
Janet W. Ferguson grew up in Mississippi and received a degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Mississippi. She has served as a children’s minister and a church youth volunteer. An avid reader, she worked as a librarian at a large public high school. She writes humorous inspirational fiction for people with real lives and real problems. Janet and her husband have two grown children, one really smart dog, and a cat that allows them to share the space.
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