Contemporary Romance
ISBN: 0-9754589-4-9
Pages: 150

Dinah Greene’s lifelong love for her dream of living in Arizona drew her to the desert splendour of Arizona’s Grand Canyon country, a place where wild still reigns. A dizzying trip to the Grand Canyon after her cheating and abusive husband’s death finds her in the arms of a handsome stranger, and on the receiving end of a very unusual proposition. On an impulse, she takes the offered room and job as housekeeper and companion in a spacious house on a quiet Canyon road in Sedona. The house, owned by a reclusive artist, gives Dinah the room she needs, and the man gives her something else she has rarely had in her life – friendship.

For Jim Blackhawk, there’s no denying the passionate feelings developing for the quiet woman he has taken in to his home. There is no doubt in his mind she is troubled by something, but instinct tells Jim he cannot and must not push the lovely but sorely wounded creature. She is a beauty, not necessarily in the classic sense, but to him she shines with an innocence he rarely sees in the jaded world of art. He worries about her, and the drive behind the quiet desperation he senses within her. Dinah’s past is a mystery he must slowly unravel, and yet one unforgettable night, Jim surrenders to his feelings and discovers Dinah’s shy response to him hides a very passionate woman who feels the same for him.

Through the mire of familial greed around Dinah, manipulative efforts of a disparaging mother and a jealous ex-girlfriend of Jim’s, the pair fights for the newly formed love struggling to bloom and grow in the desert canyons of Arizona. Jim wants to protect Dinah from those who would rob her blind, and Dinah wants to be sure Jim’s art show is a success.

As the artist in Jim fights the darkness in Dinah’s past, they find the strength together to make not only beautiful art, but to show the world what true beauty is found in the harmony of real love.