Twisted Roads
A tarnished name and a bitter heart. That's all Angela Ross owned, when she fled Texas. Forced to return fifteen years later, Angela knows that in a town like Grand, certain sins are never forgotten, much less forgiven.
Shelly Sampson is the reigning queen of Grand, but her crown is tarnished, and nothing threatens to knock her tiara off faster than a chill wind from the past. A wind...like the return of Angela Ross.
Lucas Cahill is a singer-songwriter at heart, a lawyer by education and a jaded dive bar owner by trade. He’s spend years writing love songs for a woman he can't have but he has a plan to change that. Though heart strings and grand schemes prove tougher to play than the old Gibson Hummingbird his dad left him.
Turns out love may have a few verses of its own to teach Lucas, Shelly, Angela, and the "good" folks of Grand, Texas.
This novel began as a class assignment. I was taking a creative writing class from Jodi Thomas to whom I owe either a great debt or or a serious grudge because without her mentorship and encouragement I probably would not be writing books today. Jodi Thomas is a Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame author with something like fifty published novels and a Netflix series based on one of her series titled, Ransom Canyon.
Mirroring its own title, Twisted Roads has definitely took a crooked journey to publication. I was fortunate enough to sell my very this manuscript to one of the bigger New York publishing houses, but shortly thereafter the world was forever changed by the tragic events of September 11th, 2001. The novel was never published and my rights returned. More than ten years went by before I found another home for the novel with Tag Publishing and then shortly after publication Tag folded and the book was orphaned once again, but I am proud to share it with you now.