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Member Showcase: September 2010
Kathleen Mix
Beyond Paradise
is Kathy's latest book. For more about her and the book, listen to her
interview with XTRA 99.1FM's Neal Steele on CBW's Second Monday Radio
show at 8:05AM, Monday, September 13th. If you miss the live broadcast,
you can return to this website in October and listen to the podcast.
Synopsis
Even the deepest love
needs an air supply…
Dive shop manager Marina Hernandez is carrying a heavy load as she tries
to save the family business. On one shoulder rides a bucket of red ink.
On the other, her father’s age-old cultural belief that women belong in
the kitchen.
Now that a cutthroat competitor has pushed her to the brink of
bankruptcy, any chance she’ll ever win her father’s respect is fading
fast. The last thing she can afford right now is the complication of a
tempting man.
After years of building his practice, pediatrician Brett Sutherland has
changed his focus. He seeks a more well-rounded life, including a woman
who’ll devote herself to caring for a family. Workaholics need not
apply. Then he signs up for scuba lessons, and Marina’s luminous eyes
and spirited personality turn his neat, logical plan upside down.
Brett’s dazzling looks heat her blood, and his compassionate nature
makes her yearn to build her own life—but not if it means letting the
business collapse. A little harmless flirtation couldn’t hurt, though.
Yet with every kiss, she’s stretched thinner between the promise of
Brett’s love and her father’s expectations. Until a critical decision
pushes them both to the breaking point…
About the Author
For many years, Mix lived the conventional lifestyle.
Graduated high school, married, raised a family and put personal goals on
hold. When her three sons started school, she returned to college and earned
a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of
Connecticut. For a few years, she worked as a software engineer, consulting
on applications ranging from submarine combat systems to biological research
databases. Weekends and vacations were spent sailing Long Island Sound.
As an avid sailor and licensed charter boat captain, the
itch to sail away into the sunset soon became to strong to resist. When the
boys entered college, she and her husband sold their house and furniture,
waved good-bye to shocked friends and relatives, and moved aboard a
sailboat.
Since then, they have spent many years exploring the Bahamas, and enjoying
the tropical islands of the Caribbean and the offshore islands of South
America, from as far north as Gloucester, Massachusetts and as far south as
Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, east to Trinidad and Tobago, and west to Curacao.
Mix began her writing career with non-fiction articles. But
the allure of lush, exotic islands, starry skies, beautiful, white-sand
beaches and fiery sunsets, coupled with the smells of nutmeg drying in the
sunshine, tangy salt air and the taste of pineapples fresh from the fields
took their hold. "How could my thoughts not turn to romance?"
One day, anchored in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas in the
U.S. Virgin Islands as the boat rocked gently in the trade winds, she
started writing about a charter yacht crewed by a salty captain and a
land-lubber chef. That novel, A Trade Wind Season, was released by Avalon
Books two years later.
Since then, Mix has published three books: Deadly
Paradise, my thrilling romantic suspense novel set in the Bermuda
Triangle, Secret Stranger, a romantic suspense novel set in
the Bahamas, and her latest novel, Beyond Paradise.
For more about the author and where to order her books,
click here to visit
her website.
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