A successful sporting goods sales executive, Jen's company offer to work abroad for a year sends her into a tailspin of fear and doubt about whether or not she and Ryan can survive the shift. Can she actually hope to have both professional and personal success? Is her relationship with Ryan as perfect and rock solid as she believes?
Follow Jen as she works her way through self-doubt and finds a future that she never expected.
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Born in Monterey CA to an Army father, Heather moved all over the United States and Europe as a child. Her father's side of the family is from Rhode Island and to this day, the New England accent still peeks out from time to time. Her mother's side of the family is from California, where Heather's creative free spirit blossomed and flourished.
After a 24-year career in the Air Force, she settled in Las Vegas with her two children and began her writing career in earnest. Having dealt with low self esteem in her own life, Heather writes and blogs about living "arms wide open" and finding self love and acceptance - her touching and authentic characters each take their own journey to find love within and without.
Her first book, "Sunrise Fires" is a spicy romance set in Las Vegas, California, and Germany. It is the moving story of Jen as she struggles with independence, love, power and sacrifice. Can she find love, serenity, and still be independent?
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The original back cover synopsis which was eventually scrapped:
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JOY AND CONTENTMENT. THAT IS THE LIFE JEN KNOWS WITH RYAN - HER PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL LIVES ARE FINALLY MESHED INTO ONE SATISFYING AND BLISSFUL LIFE. HER PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS GIVES A JOB SATISFACTION SHE’S NEVER KNOWN AND HER RELATIONSHIP WITH RYAN IS EMOTIONALLY AND SEXUALLY SATISFYING BEYOND MEASURE.
AFTER TWO DIVORCES AND YEARS SPENT CLIMBING THE RETAIL EXECUTIVE LADDER WHILE RAISING TWO KIDS ALONE, SHE DESERVES IT. SHE BELIEVES THAT IF SHE DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING, EVERYTHING WILL STAY JUST AS IT IS: PERFECT.
A CALL FROM CORPORATE BEGINS A CYCLE OF SELF DOUBT AND WORRY. JEN FEARS THE IMPACT OF THE CHOICE SHE WILL HAVE TO MAKE. PETRIFIED THAT ANY CHANGE IN HER LIFE WILL LEAD TO A TIDAL WAVE OF CHANGE THAT DESTROYS HER HAPPINESS, SHE DELAYS AND PROCRASTINATES UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE. NOW THAT HER HAND IS FORCED, CAN JEN ROLL WITH NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES? WILL SHE AND RYAN SURVIVE HER FEAR AND INSECURITY?
JOURNEY WITH JEN THROUGH A CYCLE OF SELF DISCOVERY, LOVE, TRUST, AUTHENTICITY AND RESOLUTION.
We all have our reasons to write and these are Heather's:
When I wrote Sunrise Fires, I was
only a few years away from the self-doubt and persistent fear that comes from
low self-esteem and I wanted to reflect that in my writing. I’m a fan of romance, particularly erotic
romance, so it seemed like the natural leap to express a woman like Jen through
a romantic storyline, showing how deeply disruptive self-doubt truly can be to
a person’s love life.
By the end of Jen’s trip to
Germany, she will likely have infuriated many readers. It was a risk – a big risk – writing a main
character sort of as the unlikable one.
My point was to write someone who is so far lost down that road that
even those people who think like her can see its impacts on her life and maybe
even see some ways that she should have responded differently.
Jen is a strong woman who needed
to work through her own unwillingness to accept how lovable she is, to accept
how deserving she is of Ryan’s love. By
the end of the book she has found a new way to think, and maybe she has shown
that the tunnel of low-self esteem does have a light at the end.
Today I still write about self
love regularly in my blog. In context
with Jen, I would recommend that she first read “Living Arms Wide Open” to help her step away from her
defensive emotional crouch. Then, Bob
Marley said it best – so I’d recommend she read “Can You Be Loved” to help her accept Ryan’s love as true and
as something she deserves. Lastly, I
would recommend “Know Your Worth” to help keep her
from backsliding to a place where she rejects compliments or affection from
others.
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