When Ryan Kendrick comes into her life, she realizes that there is a spark missing. But love will come along and show her more possibilities for her life. She's not mooning around and living a half-life. I liked that this book doesn't come from the perspective that poor Bethany's life is over after she had the bad fall from her cutting horse. She is very much protected and adored by her brothers, and loved by her family, so she's not a sad girl.

While she has not given up on life, and maintains a healthy outlook, she has no expectations to fall in love and get married. Bethany Coulter is permanently paralyzed from the waist down.

Phantom Waltz is the first romance I read that has a heroine with a serious handicap. Catherine and her stateside family will celebrate Christmas on the north island with Sidney, his wife Mary, and their two sons, Liam and Jonas. Her older son has lived in Japan, Australia, and now resides in New Zealand. She presently has two Australian shepherds, six cats, and a very old canary. She has kept Cinnamon Ridge as her primary residence but divides her time between there and her son John's farm, where she has the support of her loved ones and can enjoy his horses, cows, and raise her own chickens.Ĭatherine loves animals and birds, both wild and domestic. Sadly, Catherine lost her husband to a long-term illness in 2014. She named it Cinnamon Ridge after the huge ponderosa pines on the property, which sport bark the color of cinnamon. It was her dream home, a wonderland in the winter and beyond beautiful in the summer. In 2001 she and her husband purchased a central Oregon home located on a ridge with incredible mountain views and surrounded by forestland honeycombed with trails. Anderson, an industrial electrician and entrepreneur.

Nine books later, she did her first single-title contemporary.Ĭatherine married Sidney D. In 1988, she sold her first book to Harlequin Intrigue and went on to write three more before she tried her hand at a single-title historical romance. The morning that one of her professors asked if she could use samples of Catherine’s creative writing on an overhead projector to teach was a dream come true. She always yearned to be a writer like her mother. See this thread for more information.Īdeline Catherine was born and raised in Grants Pass, Oregon, USA. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

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