Misconceptions

by Sheryl Hames Torres

Once upon a time, Lily had the perfect life—loving parents and grandparents, a best friend, and a boy she thought loved her—until an explosion and a disastrous decision blew it all away. Seventeen years later, her children are her life and she will do anything to protect them and her paraplegic grandmother. Shrinking their world into a tiny space, she hides her bruises and injuries while living in terror of the day her estranged husband’s brutality goes too far. Lily will keep them safe—even if it kills her. When Lily turned away from him, Alejandro left town, vowing never to return. Recreating himself, he could ignore his broken heart and make a life outside his father’s shadow, until a family emergency pulled him home again. Taking a job as the school music teacher, he knew he’d eventually come across her child, but he was ill-prepared for the other five siblings, or becoming so quickly attached. When he encounters Lily, she only sees him as her children’s teacher. If Lily can survive her husband’s viciousness, as Alex searches for answers to questions he can’t ask, will his love be enough to save Lily and her family? Or destroy them?

345 pages, Paperback

Published July 26, 2023

About the author

Sheryl Hames Torres started making up stories as a girl to keep her five younger siblings entertained. She started writing them down to keep the voices in her head from having her committed. Vibrant settings and dashing heroes soon turned into real life when her family moved to Jacksonville, Florida, where she met and married her very own Prince Charming. He taught her that sometimes reality is the fairy tale. Now, after more than thirty years, she and Mark have reared one daughter--an artist and writer--and a son--a musician, mechanic and an automotive "restorer". With a house filled with love and laughter, music and beautiful creations, lots of shedding fur from a ferociously friendly dog and a temperamental cat who thinks HE rules the roost, Sher lives out her fairy tale every day. The Torres’ make their home in Northeast Georgia within a forty-five minutes of her parents and three of those five siblings, where Sher divides her time between her family and friends, writing, restoring antique needlework.

And, of course, a lot of daydreaming…