Elsie Hollander Series: When the Heart Screams NO!

Can the tender yet passionate love Elsie and Dean have had for each other spanning sixteen years be destroyed by the intense romantic intentions of super-efficient, straight-laced, Catholic Phyllis? Does being charitable mean the object of Phyllis's love is to be shared? Does faith in God translate to suppressing the heart's desires?Set in Tennessee, this short story (about 20,000 words) tells about another episode in the life of the utterly ravishing Elsie Hollander. It tells of how...
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Can the tender yet passionate love Elsie and Dean have had for each other spanning sixteen years be destroyed by the intense romantic intentions of super-efficient, straight-laced, Catholic Phyllis? Does being charitable mean the object of Phyllis's love is to be shared? Does faith in God translate to suppressing the heart's desires?Set in Tennessee, this short story (about 20,000 words) tells about another episode in the life of the utterly ravishing Elsie Hollander. It tells of how she digs deep to be the strength for her beloved husband, one of the richest and most influential men in the world, as he recovers from heart surgery.Fighting demons of her own and physical scarring from a horrific high-school graduation party of over twenty years past, she plucks up the courage to try to give Dean that which he wants most in the world - a son. Fate transports Elsie-and the reader-through a heady mix of tender love, passionate encounters, unexpected vicious violence ... and death. But ... can bullets really end passion?