A Family Affair: The Risk
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If Katie knew Ian Finnegan would break her heart, she’d like to think she would have ignored that blue gaze and slow smile, blocked out the deep voice, the pull of attraction that warned be careful. But would she have done it? She was nineteen and had been careful her whole life. For one long hot summer she allowed herself to believe in destiny.
Ian Finnegan might be a rich kid in designer clothes whose visit to Magdalena started out as a “punishment”, but he’s never met anyone like Katie Layton. She’s not impressed with his looks, his style, or his money. Katie fascinates him and the more time he’s around her, the more he realizes there is no one else like her. Ian is arrogant and naïve enough to believe nobody can stop them from being together. And then he finds out how wrong he is…
10 years later
Katie’s vision of creating specialty soups has become a reality. Katie’s Soups was born from her love of cooking alongside her mother, and it’s how she honors her memory. When she lands a national contract that requires company expansion, a silent investor steps in to fund the project. However, months after completion, she’s still struggling to fulfill orders, and that’s when the silent investor insists on sending an engineer to conduct an efficiency audit.
Ian Finnegan certainly doesn’t look like an engineer or a successful businessman with his long hair, tattoos, T-shirts, and faded jeans. That’s what he’s counting on when he returns to Magdalena to convince Katie to let him help make her company more efficient without divulging that he’s the engineer she’s expecting and he’s the silent investor. He’ll have to tell her eventually, but not until he explains what happened all those years ago. It’s going to be a big risk, but it’s one he’s willing to take for a chance at forever with the only woman he’s ever loved.
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About the author
Mary Campisi is the bestselling author of over 50 emotion-packed, romantic women’s fiction novels that center around hope, redemption, and second chances. Set in small towns, these books take readers through the lives of the characters as they encounter, misfortune, disappointment, and challenges to find hope, friendship and, in some cases, love. Growing up in a small town gives Mary a real sense of how people pull together to help others find their true destiny. Her stories will make you laugh and cry, but in the end, you’ll feel like you want to live in these towns, meet the residents for coffee or share a meal.
Mary’s Truth in Lies series, also known as the A Family Affair books, takes place in the Catskill Mountains and centers around the discovery of a man’s secret family that prompts the question, Which family is the real one? The continued success of this series is driven by readers wanting more and she’s created an equally compelling one with the Reunion Gap series.
Mary should have known she’d become a writer when at age thirteen she began changing the ending to all of the books she read. It took several years and a number of jobs, including registered nurse, receptionist in a swanky hair salon, accounts payable clerk, and practice manager in an OB/GYN office, for her to rediscover writing. Enter a mouse-less computer, a floppy disk, and a dream large enough to fill a zip drive. The rest of the story lives on in every book she writes.
When she’s not working on her craft or following the lives of five adult children, Mary’s digging in the dirt with her flowers and herbs, cooking, reading, walking her rescue lab, Henry, or, on the perfect day, riding off into the sunset with her very own hero/husband on his Ultra Limited aka Harley.
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