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Authors: Mary Campisi

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How can I ever forget it?
“I knew the man who died. Clay Maden. His family had a demolition business in town.”

“I see.”

“I’m going there to pay my respects to his widow.”
Kate. Remember her?
That got her attention. So, she
did
remember. He doubted she’d bring it up. Memories of her eighteen-year-old nephew crying until he puked were better left alone.

“Do you really think that’s necessary? Miles said there could be litigation. Aren’t we risking exposure?” She must have seen the determination on his face because she softened her approach. “Can’t you at least send a representative with a check instead of making a personal appearance? Money is all those kinds of people want anyway.”

Doubtful, but he wasn’t in the mood to debate the issue with his aunt who insisted everything started and ended with dollar signs. “I’m leaving as soon as Maxine can make arrangements.” Had her complexion shifted from pale to paste? The change was so minute he couldn’t tell but he’d swear it had.

“I see.”

“Just so you know, I’m making provisions to care for the child.”

This time her face downshifted to the color of soot. She coughed and sputtered. “What?”

“There’s a daughter.”
She probably has mud-brown eyes and red hair, just like the rest of the Madens.

“Rourke—”

“It’s time to make things right.” He dreaded the thought of seeing Kate again, but maybe it was time to do that, too.

When Diana left, Rourke retrieved the key from his middle desk drawer and fit it in the credenza behind him. He opened the drawer and shuffled through several folders, searching for the most current, which he removed and laid on the desk in front of him. The file tab was marked with his own bold handwriting—Kate E. Redmond. He refused to think of Kate by her married name. There were eight such files, all reports dating back as many years. He drew in a deep breath and buzzed Maxine. “Hold all my calls for the next twenty minutes.”

“Yes, Mr. Flannigan. Even your niece’s?”

“
Especially
my niece’s.”

“Very good, sir.”

Click.

Rourke ran his fingers along the tab, tracing the name on it twice before he slowly opened the folder and began to read.

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ISBN: 9781942158127

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 young 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 Affai
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Book Two:
A Family Affair: Spring
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Book Three:
A Family Affair: Summer
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Book Four:
A Family Affair: Fall
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