What the Heart Knows - Purl, Mara
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Is the heart smarter than the head? Artist Miranda Jones begins to trust her heart enough to escape from her life of privilege and start over in Milford-Haven, the small town of undiscovered beauty on California's Central Coast. She connects with environmentalist Samantha Hugo-a brilliant PhD twenty years her senior who gave up a son years earlier; and with restaurant owner Sally O'Mally who left Arkansas to create her own dream. Each woman wrestles with her own core issues while balancing demanding careers with the attentions of interesting men. None is aware that journalist Christine…mehr

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Is the heart smarter than the head? Artist Miranda Jones begins to trust her heart enough to escape from her life of privilege and start over in Milford-Haven, the small town of undiscovered beauty on California's Central Coast. She connects with environmentalist Samantha Hugo-a brilliant PhD twenty years her senior who gave up a son years earlier; and with restaurant owner Sally O'Mally who left Arkansas to create her own dream. Each woman wrestles with her own core issues while balancing demanding careers with the attentions of interesting men. None is aware that journalist Christine Christian has just been murdered while investigating a half-built house. Though the book stands alone, it is also Book 1 in the critically acclaimed, popular series, a multi-generational saga. Based on Purl's BBC Radio drama Milford-Haven U.S.A. Winner of 8 awards: Benjamin Franklin, ForeWord Book of the Year, National Indie Excellence, USA Book News Best Book, International, Pinnacle, Southern California, and Literary Titan awards.
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Mara Purl is the best-selling author of the Milford-Haven Novels, which pioneered small-town fiction for women. Her books have won an unprecedented 75 book awards, and Mara was named Fiction Author of the Year by The Authors Show, the preeminent podcast for indie authors. As one of the most respected and successful independently published authors of women's fiction in the U.S., she is a trend-setter whose work has been consistently noted as an example by fellow authors. In the newest publishing model, she exemplifies direct contact with readers as every new book in her series hits #1 on multiple best-seller lists on Amazon.Mara's beloved fictitious town has been delighting audiences since 1992, when it first appeared as Milford-Haven, U.S.A.©-the first American radio drama ever licensed and broadcast by the BBC. The show reached an audience of 4.5 million listeners throughout the U.K. and won the Finalist Award at the 1994 New York Festivals World's Best Radio Programs. What the Heart Knows (Book one), Where the Heart Lives (Book Two), and Why Hearts Keep Secrets (Book Three) all reached #1 on Amazon's best-seller lists, #22 on Barnes & Noble's best-seller list, have been ranked in Kobo's top-100. The newest novel in her series Whose Hearts Align makes its debut this autumn. Mara's novellas When Hummers Dream, When Whales Watch, and When Otters Play along with her Holiday Novelettes, Where an Angel's On a Rope, When Angels Paint, and Whose Angel Key Ring are all also best-sellers, and so is her paranormal Novella for the series What the Soul Suspects.Mara is a former journalist (Associated Press, Financial Times of London, Rolling Stone, et al) which gave her a strong foundation for her research-based stories. And as an actress on Days of Our Lives, she learned the long-form of story which helped her create her successful radio drama, which in turn led to the development of her richly complex novel series. Mara was named one of twelve Women of the Year by the Los Angeles County Commission for Women.