LIVE: Counting Stars by Alannah Carbonneau
Counting
Stars – Donnelley Brothers Book One
Synopsis
“In
every ending, no matter how painful or desolate, there is a new
beginning. He was that new beginning for me.” – Reese James
Reese
James was in love, married to her high school sweetheart, Derek, when
her happy existence came shattering down around her. At only
twenty-two, with so much life left ahead of her, she would lose the
one person who was supposed to walk the path she’d paved in her
mind of where her life would lead. At only twenty-two, Reese was a
widow.
A
year of mourning and nothing had changed. She still woke to the
feeling of bricks on her heart – sorrow festering in her
bloodstream. Unable to continue living in such despair, Reese makes a
change. Stumbling across an internet ad for the Donnelley
Wild Land Tours, Reese contacts Gracie. Before long, Reese has booked
a private tour in the wilderness where she hopes to heal her broken
heart and to find acceptance for the ending of her life with Derek.
The
tour, in which she’d been hoping find acceptance for Derek’s
death, becomes complicated when Gracie, her guide, breaks her ankle.
Leaving Reese in Logan’s care, Gracie sends the two off into the
wilderness. Tension strains between the two as Logan watches her with
hot ebony eyes, challenging her to continue stepping forward, to live
her life, to push for her wants and needs. Unknowingly, without
trying, the man was healing her. What she’d first thought of as an
inconvenience quickly became the lifeline that pulled her aching
heart out from the deep abyss of her pain. She never would have
thought, for even a moment, that love was what she needed – but in
the deep primal wilderness of the mountains, love was what she
found. With Logan. Slowly, patiently, Logan proves to Reese
that even though one love is lost, it doesn’t mean another can’t
bloom.
He
was everything she didn’t know she needed and nothing like she ever
thought she could want, but sometimes, the heart doesn’t allow for
second thoughts or hesitation as it jumps, head first into something
beautiful.
Author
Bio
I
live in Alberta, Canada, where the weather is forever changing
(without warning). I am engaged to be married in August
2015 to my high school sweetheart and love of my life. There are no
children in my life as of right now, but we do have a handful of
rambunctious cats (four) and a testy, rescued Shepard/Husky, who take
up a lot of my time.
Ever
since I can remember, I’ve adored the written word. English was
always my favorite class and that may be biased because I can’t
count to save my life, so math was a horror! I remember the very
first novel I ever read, Shocking Pink by Erica Spindler. It was
the most interesting of the covers on my mom’s bookshelf (probably
because it was pink) and I was way too young to be reading that
novel. But I fell in love. From there, I read almost everything from
V.C. Andrews.
My
writing started out as poetry, which then evolved to songs, and later
into novels. I was never one for the short stories as I found it too
difficult to pack everything I imagined into something so small. I
now have fourteen novels published independently. I write both novels
for young adults and novels for adults – all romance.
Despite
my favorite younger reading material, I now adore writing and reading
all things romance.
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