A family struck by almost unbearable tragedy is finally able to go with their lives…
BEGIN AGAIN
The Ludzecky family was leveled by an unspeakable tragedy. Three years later, Paulina runs a contracting business with her twin, Antonia. And she’s ready to dip her toes in romance, especially after she meets the architect on the new next project.
PRIMARY COLORS
Antonia is stuck in her grief and can’t find a way out of her sorrow over the untimely death of her beloved husband. Until she meets a modern artist whose gentle demeanor and lack of arrogance attracts her.
RISKY BUSINESS
Magdalena is a child prodigy and career woman extraordinaire. She’s a partner in a private equity firm and is a force to be reckoned with. Her best friend is her colleague, Logan Pierce, who’s always there for her, especially when her brothers-in-law were killed. Suddenly, they find attraction growing between them. But an office romance is unthinkable.
THE WAY WE WERE
Ana Ludzecky had it all—a sexy husband, a beautiful daughter, her dream house and the best extended family in the world. Then, tragedy strikes their family and her life turns upside down. She makes some bad choices that eventually lead to the dissolution of her marriage to the love of her life.
HANDLE WITH CARE
Diagnosed with leukemia at sixteen, Sofia has been affected by more tragedy than any of her sisters. But she found the strength to help her sisters out and also take care of herself. Being a yoga teacher helps her live a calm life. Enter the athletic, boisterous Physical Education teacher who goes after her with all he’s got.
LOVE STORY
Elizabeta Ludzecky is two different one the risk-taking, hip, wild child in the Ludzecky family. And the other, a Rhodes Scholar and businesswoman who works at the Met. But there’s a problem at the museum and the undercover cop is placed there. When she sets her sights on him, his first instinct is to run in the other direction. Soon, that changes dramatically.
Praise for Kathryn Shay romance “Kathryn Shay writes some of the cleanest prose around, and it’s my belief she’d make the Yellow Pages sound interesting if the phone company put her on staff. And Ms. Shay knows her way around a steamy love scene.” The Romance Reader
Kathryn Shay is a lifelong writer. At fifteen, she penned her first 'romance,' a short story about a female newspaper reporter in New York City and her fight to make a name for herself in a world of male journalists - and with one hardheaded editor in particular. Looking back, Kathryn says she should have known then that writing was in her future. But as so often happens, fate sent her detouring down another path.
Fully intending to pursue her dream of big city lights and success in the literary world, Kathryn took every creative writing class available at the small private women's college she attended in upstate New York. Instead, other dreams took precedence. She met and subsequently married a wonderful guy who'd attended a neighboring school, then completed her practice teaching, a requirement for the education degree she never intended to use. But says Kathryn, "I fell in love with teaching the first day I was up in front of a class, and knew I was meant to do that."
Kathryn went on to build a successful career in the New York state school system, thoroughly enjoying her work with adolescents. But by the early 1990s, she'd again made room in her life for writing. It was then that she submitted her first manuscript to publishers and agents. Despite enduring two years of rejections, she persevered. And on a snowy December afternoon in 1994, Kathryn Shay sold her first book to Harlequin Superromance.
Since that first sale, Kathryn has written twenty-one books for Harlequin, nine mainstream contemporary romances for the Berkley Publishing Group, and two online novellas, which Berkley then published in traditional print format.
Kathryn has become known for her powerful characterizations - readers say they feel they know the people in her books - and her heart-wrenching, emotional writing (her favorite comments are that fans cried while reading her books or stayed up late to finish them). In testament to her skill, the author has won five RT BookClub Magazine Reviewers Choice Awards, three Holt Medallions, two Desert Quill Awards, the Golden Leaf Award, and several online accolades.
Even in light of her writing success, that initial love of teaching never wavered for Kathryn. She finished out her teaching career in 2004, retiring from the same school where her career began. These days, she lives in upstate New York with her husband and two children. "My life is very full," she reports, "but very happy. I consider myself fortunate to have been able to pursue and achieve my dreams."