YOU WERE MINE - COMPLETED BOOK
Celebrity, wealth and beauty—what is it like in the glare of the spotlight but in your mother's famous shadow? Finding true love that crosses time and culture at the most unexpected moment and time. The discovery of your mother's secluded past in her diary when she is not there to explain? The discovery of a secret meant to be buried. The father you never knew to show up and reveal his past. The paparazzi ripping into the family reputation … but the show must go on!
As the curtain rises, Renate Orbit-Reese, the darling of the dancing world, steps onto the stage … only to collapse moments later. Her daughter Ilze, panics and in her headlong dash to follow the ambulance to the hospital, runs over a man standing in the road next to his vehicle. When the media gets hold of the story, Ilze’s private life becomes a nightmare of speculation and insinuation. In the dramatic moment when Ilze crashed into the stranger, he, in turn, crashed into her heart. Somehow she must explain her feelings to her long-time partner and enter a new world where she discovers the true meaning of love. But the road to happiness is not easy. Why does a sensitive secret emerge after so many years? And how does Ilze know who to trust?
I found myself in tears at my father’s funeral. I had this dark emptiness in my heart. All I ever wanted to be was his little girl. A soft drizzle of rain has created damp spots on my coat and left puddles around the grave. The music is melancholic. The family has been too scared to say it out loud, but I knew that finally, the bottom of the bottle had been too deep for my father to ever come back from. Cousins patted me on the back, trying to comfort me, saying that my father had died of a broken heart over my mother. They chose to believe he had never come to terms with the accident that claimed her life. I knew better. I knew it was guilt that had killed him.
WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR - COMPLETE SHORT STORY
Poor darlings … I will not set foot in that office again after today. A desperate woman does desperate things to keep her man in line …
IF ONLY - COMPLETE SHORT STORY
I couldn't tell him what he already knew ... and running from it was not the answer.
LOVE SEES - COMPLETE SHORT STORY
And to think a bad marriage hurts—it was not until we went our separate ways that we both discovered how hurtful it was. Someone once taught me that love is all that matters. If you can get it, no one can do anything to hurt you, and if you can hold onto it, you conquer the world. I couldn’t believe it at that moment.