J.L. Jarvis, Author

Following the usual career path I sang professionally (New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, National Tours of Broadway Shows--well, one--and summer stock, practice rooms--that sort of thing). I spent a brief time as a divorce attorney (we don't really talk about that), and now teach in the New York City area. I hold a Bachelor of Music from the University of Illinois, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Houston, and am still licensed to practice law--not that I'd ever do that again.

And I write.

Emma Madding walks up to the door of a remote waterfront cliff house in upstate New York, and into the life of recluse Benjamin Stark. A typewriter girl, she has been hired to transcribe his weathered journal and the memories his scarred hand can no longer write down. Stark is a rugged adventurer now back from the Klondike Gold Rush, where he found gold and tragedy, too.

With the public hungry for gold rush stories and guidebooks, he agrees to chronicle his adventures. Working together sparks turbulent emotions for both. Benjamin tries not to love Emma, for the truth of his past will drive her away. Emma longs for love, but she has her own secret. Love conquers, but cannot protect. Forced apart, the two lovers must battle a world fueled by money and power. Their only weapon against it is love.

Maggie MacLaren is a librarian who longs to leave her mountain town, even if she must quell her attraction to rugged steelworker Jake O’Neill. When Andrew Adair walks into Maggie’s library, he sweeps her into his world of wealth and power, where at last dreams seem possible. However, Andrew’s world is not all it appears to be.

Maggie’s story of forbidden love is interwoven with that of reclusive young widow Allison Kimball. When she arrives at her family’s mountain resort home, she finds, tucked into her carpetbag, a love letter. So begins a series of secret epistles and midnight trysts with a man known only by his cryptic signature, “D.” Their passionate love story unfolds to reveal a truth that will threaten to tear them from their world and each other.

A stranger appears on Ana Martin’s Galveston doorstep, summoned by her father before his untimely death. When Ana boards a train bound for her uncle’s vast hacienda, Eduardo is there to see her safely to her new home in the stark desert landscape of northern Mexico.

Eduardo’s passionate ideals set him at odds with the corrupt Mexican government as his writings fuel a revolution and draw Ana closer. But it is Carlos, the dashing rodeo rider and freedom fighter, who touches her soul, setting Ana Martin on a journey that will test her strength and forge her destiny.

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