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Heart of the Canyon #1
All We Keep
Mallie Westin was finally coming home.
Ten years ago she packed up and with her children, left the only home she had ever known. Now she was coming back.
The neighborhood was still the same with its charming small town feel. Very little had changed. It was still a small cluster of only a few homes that were long ago built by her parents and a few of their friends who wanted something different than what the big city in the distance offered.
They’d found this little corner of the canyon and made it their own.
Lizzie was still there. Mallie couldn’t imagine the canyon without the woman who was in all the ways that mattered a mother to her. Lizzie Patterson had reached the pinnacle of acclaim in Hollywood by stepping successfully into any role she played and making it her own.
She walked away the same way…when she chose to and on her own terms.
Clay Tobin was the newcomer to the canyon. He was also a newcomer to the business that had surrounded Mallie all her life…with the exception of the last ten years. She’d never heard of him but neither had she been in a movie theater for years.
And while she hadn’t been specific about her plans, Mallie knew it wouldn’t take long for her sons and daughters to find their way back to the canyon…if for no other reason to find out what their mother was doing there.
She knew each would question her reasons for returning. And while the answer to that was a simple one, Mallie knew it wouldn’t be to her children. She understood that too because she shared their memories of the canyon.
Some memories never faded.
The Heart of the Canyon series celebrates both older and younger heroines and heroes, second chance romance, life long love and friendship, and the twists and turns life can take every single day.
If you enjoy women’s fiction, clean romance, and lovable and sometimes quirky characters, this may be the series for you.
Years ago, Mallie Westin left her childhood home in the canyon because she felt she had no choice. As a mother her first instinct was to protect her four children. Now, years later, her children are grown, the choice is hers, and she’s returned to the place she has always loved. The Heart of the Canyon is an emotional and heartwarming series about the enduring strength of family, the unbreakable bonds of friendship, a journey of self discovery, and the acceptance that life is filled with new beginnings.
All We Keep is the first book in the Heart of the Canyon series, a story of the joys of homecoming, the reunion with a life-long friend, and finding a new friend is nothing like you expect. It is the first in the ongoing story of Mallie Westin, Clay Tobin, and Lizzie Patterson, neighbors in a secluded corner of the canyons they call home.
Heart of the Canyon series.
All We Keep – Book 1
Everything We Are – Book 2
Any One Moment – Book 3
Each Day Since – Book 4
All in Time – Book 5
Moments We Hold – Book 6
Ever So Dear – Book 7
Perfect for fans
Ten years ago she packed up and with her children, left the only home she had ever known. Now she was coming back.
The neighborhood was still the same with its charming small town feel. Very little had changed. It was still a small cluster of only a few homes that were long ago built by her parents and a few of their friends who wanted something different than what the big city in the distance offered.
They’d found this little corner of the canyon and made it their own.
Lizzie was still there. Mallie couldn’t imagine the canyon without the woman who was in all the ways that mattered a mother to her. Lizzie Patterson had reached the pinnacle of acclaim in Hollywood by stepping successfully into any role she played and making it her own.
She walked away the same way…when she chose to and on her own terms.
Clay Tobin was the newcomer to the canyon. He was also a newcomer to the business that had surrounded Mallie all her life…with the exception of the last ten years. She’d never heard of him but neither had she been in a movie theater for years.
And while she hadn’t been specific about her plans, Mallie knew it wouldn’t take long for her sons and daughters to find their way back to the canyon…if for no other reason to find out what their mother was doing there.
She knew each would question her reasons for returning. And while the answer to that was a simple one, Mallie knew it wouldn’t be to her children. She understood that too because she shared their memories of the canyon.
Some memories never faded.
The Heart of the Canyon series celebrates both older and younger heroines and heroes, second chance romance, life long love and friendship, and the twists and turns life can take every single day.
If you enjoy women’s fiction, clean romance, and lovable and sometimes quirky characters, this may be the series for you.
Years ago, Mallie Westin left her childhood home in the canyon because she felt she had no choice. As a mother her first instinct was to protect her four children. Now, years later, her children are grown, the choice is hers, and she’s returned to the place she has always loved. The Heart of the Canyon is an emotional and heartwarming series about the enduring strength of family, the unbreakable bonds of friendship, a journey of self discovery, and the acceptance that life is filled with new beginnings.
All We Keep is the first book in the Heart of the Canyon series, a story of the joys of homecoming, the reunion with a life-long friend, and finding a new friend is nothing like you expect. It is the first in the ongoing story of Mallie Westin, Clay Tobin, and Lizzie Patterson, neighbors in a secluded corner of the canyons they call home.
Heart of the Canyon series.
All We Keep – Book 1
Everything We Are – Book 2
Any One Moment – Book 3
Each Day Since – Book 4
All in Time – Book 5
Moments We Hold – Book 6
Ever So Dear – Book 7
Perfect for fans
145 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 17, 2017
About the author
Jacie Middlemann
436 books161 followersI fell in love with books when I was in the 4th grade and my free period was spent volunteering in the school library. I read every Nancy Drew book there was to check out, discovered collections of myths and fairy tales from around the world, Louisa May Alcott and C.S. Lewis, and decided I wanted my own library. By the end of that summer with the supplies our school librarian graciously provided me my books had due date slips, card pockets, book cards, and black electrical tape on the spine with the first three letters of the author's last name. I still have most of those books.
In the hope she could get me involved in something else my mother gave me a camera. Right around the same time my father told me I could use his typewriter when he wasn't using it. The typewriter won. We shared his typewriter but I also filled notebooks with stories scribbled before school, after school, and often when I was supposed to be asleep. Thanks to my mother, who saved just about every single one of those notebooks, I still have them as well.
Several years ago my father gave me his typewriter…the same one we shared all those summers ago. Every time I look at it I remember the young 4th grade girl who was quietly encouraged to do what she loved…and years later reminded with a box filled with notebooks crammed full of handwritten stories and dreams.
And it’s still not unheard of that I stay up way later than I should with a good book that’s just impossible to put down.
In the hope she could get me involved in something else my mother gave me a camera. Right around the same time my father told me I could use his typewriter when he wasn't using it. The typewriter won. We shared his typewriter but I also filled notebooks with stories scribbled before school, after school, and often when I was supposed to be asleep. Thanks to my mother, who saved just about every single one of those notebooks, I still have them as well.
Several years ago my father gave me his typewriter…the same one we shared all those summers ago. Every time I look at it I remember the young 4th grade girl who was quietly encouraged to do what she loved…and years later reminded with a box filled with notebooks crammed full of handwritten stories and dreams.
And it’s still not unheard of that I stay up way later than I should with a good book that’s just impossible to put down.
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April 13, 2019
Still trying to figure out what the story is about
The entire time I was reading this, I felt like a 5 yr old who was in a room of adults having a conversation but they didn't want to mention "the topic" in front of a child. Perhaps this is the 2nd or 3rd book in a series and I should have read the others first. There were phrases such as: "what. he d just signed up for...". The character is an actor...was it another movie? A tv series? A Broadway play? One character was an expert with computers and maybe worked for the government...'or the FBI'?
What is with all of the secrecy?
I kept waiting for the big "a ha!" moment to bring it all together... but it never happened.
The entire time I was reading this, I felt like a 5 yr old who was in a room of adults having a conversation but they didn't want to mention "the topic" in front of a child. Perhaps this is the 2nd or 3rd book in a series and I should have read the others first. There were phrases such as: "what. he d just signed up for...". The character is an actor...was it another movie? A tv series? A Broadway play? One character was an expert with computers and maybe worked for the government...'or the FBI'?
What is with all of the secrecy?
I kept waiting for the big "a ha!" moment to bring it all together... but it never happened.
December 10, 2017
A good story wonderful characters. Looking forward to the next book.
It was hard to put down to get things done for living in my real world. I feel these were real people i would enjoy visiting. But I will have to resort to the well written word.
It was hard to put down to get things done for living in my real world. I feel these were real people i would enjoy visiting. But I will have to resort to the well written word.
September 19, 2019
Great book
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