A Reason to Live is the first book in an emotionally moving four-book fiction series of family drama and challenges, romance, relationships, and friendship, titled Reasons for Loving. A Reason to Live is about love, loss, heartache, courage, and second chances. Nora Sheridan, a loving wife and mother and talented artist lives with her husband Dan, an architect, and their two young daughters, Suzie and Kristin, on their sprawling horse ranch in Akers Ridge, Oregon. Nora's world is shattered when her family is the victim of a violent crime, tragically taking their lives and ending hers in the ways that counted most. Now alone and in her mid-thirties, Nora struggles to cope with her life that hardly seems worth living, with the help of her best friend Marilyn and her father-in-law George. Years later, she reunites with her first love, Robert Logan, at a twenty-year high school reunion in Portland. Robert is a successful art dealer who recently returned to his hometown with a precocious teenage daughter, Steffi, after a failed marriage. He courts Nora, seeking more than a nostalgic trip down memory lane, but finds the going tough as he has to compete with the memories of her late husband and children. Slowly, but surely, Nora begins to let down her guard and open up to the possibility of a new yet old romance, giving her a reason to live and love again in this poignant novel. The tale blends horse country and city life with inspiring contemporary drama and complex romance and will tug at your heartstrings. The book includes an excerpt from book two in the Reasons for Loving series, A Reason to Love, and additional bonus material for readers.
About the Author: R. Barri Flowers is the international bestselling author of entertaining relationship, mystery, suspense, and thriller fiction, as well as young adult novels and children's books. Relationship fiction favorites include Forever Sweethearts and Billy the Kid's Wife. Mysteries and thrillers include the Leila Kahana Maui Mysteries, Murder in Hawaii Mysteries, and Riley Reed Cozy Mysteries bundles, Before He Kills Again, Dark Streets of Whitechapel, Dead in Pukalani, Justice Served, Killer in The Woods, Murdered in the Man Cave, and Murdered in the Gourmet Kitchen. Teen fiction includes Count Dracula's Teenage Daughter, Daughter of Count Dracula, Ghost Girl in Shadow Bay, Out for Blood, Summer at Paradise Ranch, Teen Ghost at Dead Lake, and the Transylvanica High Series, Teen Haunted House Mysteries, and Teen Time Travel Novels bundles. Children's titles include ABC's of Earth's Creatures, A Kangaroo's Pouch, Greeley the Mean Goat, Christmas and the Lost Elf 1 & 2, Abby Appleton's Apple Farm, Toby the Talking Tree, The Runaway Rabbit Named Robbie, The Mystery of Christmas Tree Village, Willa's Halloween Adventure 1 & 2, and titles from the popular A to Z Things learning series. The author's bestselling books can be found in audio, eBook, and print everywhere. Follow R. Barri Flowers on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest Goodreads, Google+, LinkedIn, LibraryThing, and www.rbarriflowers.com.