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Wish Upon A Star (North Star Trilogy #1)
Author: Jim Cangany
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Description:
Annie
and E.J. are on top of the world. Her concert world tour as Cassandra
Lawrence was a smashing success and they've just announced their
engagement to the world. Now that they're settled in at Annie's Northern
California estate, it's time to relax and enjoy life. Until E.J. gets a
call from her with news that's as devastating as it is unbelievable.
Annie has breast cancer.
Their
love is tested in unimaginable ways as chemotherapy robs Annie of her
health and her hair, but not hope. She holds on to the hope of beating
the cancer and marrying the man she loves. While the key for Annie is to
hold onto that hope, their future together may be lost forever unless
E.J. can learn to let go. For its not until he can learn to forgive
himself and let go of the guilt that haunts him that he can truly move
forward and be the man Annie needs him to be.
Will
the chemotherapy, mastectomy and radiation be enough to help Annie beat
the cancer? Will E.J. face down the demons that haunt his past in time
to save their love? Will they ever get that happily ever after Annie so
desperately wants? While trust and faith in each other has gotten them
this far, they'll need one more thing to make it to their finish
line--hope.
** .50 From Every WISH UPON A STAR sale will be donated To the Avon Foundation and its Breast Cancer Crusade during the month of October**
Wish Upon a Star is the final book in a contemporary romance trilogy that
continues to follow main characters E.J. McCarty and Annie Wilson as their lives and their love is tested when Annie is diagnosed with breast cancer. The characters
of E.J. and Annie are realistic - they both have strengths and
weaknesses - that make them easy to identify with throughout the book. I've
enjoyed watching their characters grow both separately and as a couple. Their love (and lives) has endured rough patches, incredible highs, and the scariest of situations. The setting didn't really play a major part for me while reading the book. The events could have occurred in any city in the world and it wouldn't have majorly changed the plot. There's the
obvious and a bit cliched issues that the couple had to go through - individually and separately - and now they're a happy couple, newly engaged, who are ready to face life together. The topics like cancer, fear, strength, love, faith - are deep, but still felt a little overdone and expected. Although the plot wasn't exactly original, the characters and their relationship make the book stand out. The author included more to the
story than just the romance factor - it deals with issues like fear, strength, hope, love, faith, and family - among other things. I felt that these particular topics gave the book a more layered story line and made it
more interesting for me as a reader. Overall, this is a great final book in a contemporary romance trilogy with heart that fans of the genre will enjoy
reading.
A
lifelong resident of the State of Indiana, Jim Cangany is proud to call
himself a Hoosier. The youngest of eight children, he grew up in a
household full of books and people. Thanks to the influence of his older
siblings, Jim gravitated toward fantasy and sci-fi when looking for
something to read. He wrote his first story at age fourteen. A school
project, The Magic Coin was a fantasy that involved a king, some bad guys, and, not surprisingly, a magical token.
These
days, Jim writes romance on the sweet end. If you ask him what is a guy
like him is doing writing romance, he'll reply, "Those are the stories
in my head." A believer that the world has enough doom and gloom, he
likes stories with a happy ending, regardless of genre. He lives in
Indianapolis with his wonderful wife Nancy and his two sons, Seamus and
Aidan.
Author Links:
Twitter: @JimCangany
Website: http://jimcangany.com/
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