ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
While home schooling my four kids, I wrote my first novel. I pitched it for publication, and it became the first of a five book historical series. Since then, I have written three more historical novels and nine contemporaries. The Still of Night was nominated for the Colorado Book Award. The Tender Vine was a Christy Award finalist and Secrets won a Christy in 2005.
People often ask why I started writing, and I say to get the stories out of my head. Some say they’d like to write a book, but I say if you’re not wracked with labor pains, there are easier ways to express yourself. Being a writer is a solitary, eccentric, and often compulsive path. But I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Morgan Spencer has had just about all he can take of life. Following the tragic death of his wife, Jill, he retreats to his brother's Rocky Mountain ranch to heal and focus on the care of his infant daughter, Olivia. Two years later, Morgan begins to make plans to return to his home in Santa Barbara to pick up the pieces of his life and career.
Quinn Riley has been avoiding her past for four years. Standing up for the truth has forced her into a life of fear and isolation. After a "chance" first meeting and a Thanksgiving snowstorm, Quinn is drawn into the Spencer family's warm and loving world, and she begins to believe she might find freedom in their friendship.
The man Quinn helped put behind bars has recently been released, however, and she fears her past will endanger the entire Spencer family. As the danger heightens, she determines to leave town for the sake of the people who have come to mean so much to her.
Fixing problems is what Morgan Spencer does best, and he is not willing to let Quinn run away, possibly into the clutches of a man bent on revenge. But Morgan's solution sends him and Quinn on an unexpected path, with repercussions neither could have anticipated.
My Thoughts:
“Sometimes you just act.”
(p 427)
When Morgan Spencer speaks these words, he is speaking a
profound truth and acknowledging a profound shift in his heart. Kristen Heitzmann has created a character in
Morgan Spencer that just gets into your soul!
He is a person who reaches out to others, gives his very best to
everything, yet he is a man who has experienced such great loss, that his
growth and healing are like a precious gift within the story. Heitzmann gives
you every nuance, every emotion, every significant change in such a realistic
way that by the time you reach the end of the story, you’ve shed your fair
share of tears for Morgan – both in sorrow and in joy.
Quinn Reilly is the other major character painted upon the
canvas of this story, and, like Morgan, she becomes someone you learn to love a
great deal. Her experiences within the
story are both emotionally difficult and heart-poundingly frightening - for it
is Quinn who is threatened by a very subtle enemy and a deadly set of circumstances. There are several chapters that threaten to
take her out of the story all-together!
Once again, Heitzmann has created a host of characters that
the reader comes to care for very deeply, then she sets up situations that have
you racing toward the end of the story with your heart pounding, and your
breathing rather faulty! Romantic suspense
is an art that this author has perfected, and The Breath of Dawn will keep her
fans happily reading well into the night!
Bravo!!!
If you would like to read the first chapter of The Breath of Dawn, go HERE.
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