by Mary Campisi
Jenny squeezed Grace’s hand. “I’ll be back,” she whispered and followed the doctor out of the room. She’d heard that unconscious people could sometimes still hear talking and if that were true, she wanted Grace to know she was coming back.
Dr. Shaffer led her to the waiting room, and she took a seat in the same caramel-colored chair she’d sat in earlier. He removed his black glasses, rubbed a hand over his face, then put them back on. “I have some bad news.”
“About Grace?”
“No, this isn’t about your sister. Well, not directly.”
“Meaning?”
“I wish there were an easier way to tell you, but,” he paused, his expression gentle. “Your sister’s husband was in the car at the time of the accident.”
Jenny sat up straight, clutched the arms of the vinyl chair. “Grant? Where is he? Is he hurt?” She’d assumed Grace was alone when the accident happened.
Dr. Shaffer shook his head. “We couldn’t control the bleeding. It was all internal.” Another pause. “I’m very sorry.”
“He’s...dead?”
“He was in the cubicle next to your sister.”
Grant was the one they’d been trying to resuscitate. Big, strong Grant. Dead. The room started spinning and Jenny tried to breathe, but she couldn’t get air into her lungs. The only man Grace had ever loved was dead. If the accident didn’t kill Grace, a broken heart would. And what about Danielle and Natalie? Who would tell them their mother was in a coma and their father was dead? She couldn’t tell them. She just couldn’t do it. When the dark side of consciousness sunk its claws into her, she welcomed it, tumbling head first into a black sleep.
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About the Author
Mary Campisi writes emotion-packed books about second chances. Whether contemporary romances, women’s fiction, or Regency historicals, her books all center on belief in the beauty of that second chance. Her small-town romances center around family life, friendship, and forgiveness as they explore the issues of today’s contemporary women.
Mary should have known she'd become a writer when at age thirteen she began changing the ending to all 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 mix, Cooper, or, on the perfect day, riding off into the sunset with her very own hero/husband on his Harley Ultra Limited.
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Mary has published with Kensington, Carina Press, and The Wild Rose Press and she is currently working on the next book in her very popular Truth in Lies series, the A Family Affair books. This family saga is filled with heartache, betrayal, forgiveness, and redemption in a small-town setting.
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Other Books by Mary Campisi
Contemporary Romance:
Truth in Lies Series
Book One: A Family Affair
Book Two: A Family Affair: Spring
Book Three: A Family Affair: Summer
Book Four: A Family Affair: Fall
Book Five: A Family Affair: Christmas
Book Six: A Family Affair: Winter
Book Seven: A Family Affair: The Promise
Book Eight: A Family Affair: The Secret
Book Nine: A Family Affair: The Wish
Book Ten: A Family Affair: The Gift
Book Eleven: A Family Affair: The Weddings, a novella
Book Twelve: A Family Affair: The Cabin, a novella
Book Thirteen: A Family Affair: The Return
That Second Chance Series
Book One: Pulling Home
Book Two: The Way They Were
Book Three: Simple Riches
Book Four: Paradise Found
Book Five: Not Your Everyday Housewife
Book Six: The Butterfly Garden
That Second Chance Boxed Set 1-3
That Second Chance Boxed Set 4-6
That Second Chance Complete Boxed Set 1-6
The Betrayed Trilogy
Book One: Pieces of You
Book Two: Secrets of You
Book Three: What’s Left of Her: a novella
The Betrayed Trilogy Boxed Set
Begin Again
The Sweetest Deal
Regency Historical:
An Unlikely Husband Series
Book One - The Seduction of Sophie Seacrest
Book Two - A Taste of Seduction
Book Three - A Touch of Seduction, a novella
Book Four - A Scent of Seduction
An Unlikely Husband Boxed Set
The Model Wife Series
Book One: The Redemption of Madeline Munrove
Young Adult:
Pretending Normal
