Eva Fischer-Dixon

eBook, ePUB

The Price of the Game (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

Beschreibung

Addison Brooke Theron considered herself a fortunate woman. She had a great career as an immigration attorney, a loving and successful husband, and two beautiful children. Unexpectedly, her entire life was shattered one rainy night with unspeakable consequences. After almost a year of trying to recover physically and mentally, she returned to work at her friends law firm. No longer her psychiatrist, Dr. David Cooper confessed his feelings for Addison, but she was not quite ready to date yet. Her life changed when she met a group of Navy SEALs in a bar owned by a friend of her colleague. One of the Navy SEALs, Lieutenant Logan Matthews, invited Addison for dinner, and it was evident that they had an overwhelming physical chemistry. When she finally confided in Logan about her own tragic past, another tragedy was about to be unleashed when Logan disappeared during a mission in South America. Addison travels to Bogota, Colombia, with a client and makes a surprise discovery in a jungle village that would endanger her life if she could not outsmart the head of a notorious drug cartel, a relative of her client. She succeeded but paid a heavy price. She became engaged to Dr. David Cooper, who was always there for her, but after meeting with Logan again, Addison must make the ultimate decision between the two men who loved herthe man who offered her stability for life or the man who offered her undeniable passion but an uncertain future. It all comes to a life-altering decision during an award ceremony where Addison is being honored at the Coronado Island Naval Base.

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Autor

I came into this troubled world during the early morning hours of June 17, 1950, in the city of Budapest, Hungary. I was the first and last child of my forty-one-year-old mother and forty-five-year-old father at the time of my birth. As I did not know any better, I could not possibly understand that we were living in poverty as I was growing up with loving parents and there was always a bite to eat. My childhood was poor and saddened with tragedies. As a six-year-old child, I witnessed the bloody 1956 revolution and received the first taste of true prejudice by those of whom I thought liked us yet turned against my family. That tragedy did not match the untimely death of my beloved father when I was not yet seven years old on February 14, 1957. My mother remarried in 1959, and our financial situation was upgraded from poverty to poor. After finishing elementary school, I made a decision to earn money as soon as possible to ease our financial situation, and I enrolled in a two-year business college (high school diploma was not required). I began working as a sixteen-year-old certified secretary/bookkeeper. During the same period I began my high school education, which I completed while working full-time and attending night school. I discovered my love for writing when I was eleven years old after a movie that my childhood friend and I saw in the movie theater. We were not pleased with the ending, and Steven suggested that I should write a different ending that we both liked. Voila, a writer was born. With my family's encouragement, I entered a writing contest given by a youth-oriented magazine, and to my genuine surprise, I won second price. My desire to live in a free country and to improve my life was so great that in 1972, leaving everything, including my aging parents behind, I managed to escape from Hungary during a tour to Austria then Yugoslavia and Italy. I spent almost ten long months in a rat-infested refugee camp, located in Capua, Italy, while I waited for official permission to immigrate to the country of my dreams: the USA. In 1975, I met and married a wonderful man, my husband, Guy. Thanks to his everlasting patience, he assisted me in my task of learning the English language. He is truly my partner for life, and I remain forever grateful to him for standing by me in some tough times. It is difficult for me to describe my love for writing. I cannot think of a bigger emotional joy for an author than to see a published novel in somebody's hand and to see a story come alive on the screen. I yearn to experience that joy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514474242
• Artikelnr.: 52579905