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Kate Vaughan is no stranger to tough choices.
She's made them before. Now it's time to do it again.
Kate has a secret, something tucked away in her past. And she's getting on with her life. Her business is thriving. She has a strong relationship with her family, and a devoted boyfriend whom she wants to love with all her heart. If Kate had ever made a list, Rowan would fill the imagined boxes of a perfect mate. But she wants more than the perfect on paper relationship; she wants a real and imperfect love. That's why, when Kate discovers the small velvet box hidden in Rowan's drawer, she panics.
It always happens this way. Just when Kate thinks she can love, just when she believes she can conquer the fear, she's filled with dread. And she wants more than anything to make this feeling go away. But how?
When the mistakes have been made and the running is over, it's time to face the truth. Kate knows this. She understands that a woman can never undo what can never be undone. Yet, for the first time in her life she also knows that she won't fully love until she confronts those from her past. It's time to act.
Can she do it? Can she travel to the place where it all began, to the one who shares her secret? Can the lost ever become found?
And Then I Found You gives new life to the phrase "inspired by a true story." By travelling back to a painful time in her own family's history, author Patti Callahan Henry explores the limits of courage, and the price of a selfless act.
Author Notes
Patti Callahan Henry grew up in Philadelphia and graduated from Auburn University with a degree in nursing, and from Georgia State with a Master¿s degree in Child Health. She left nursing after having her family and began writing stories. She had always wanted to be a writer.
Her enthusiasm for writing lead to publishing ten novels. They include Losing the Moon, Where the River Runs, When Light Breaks, Between the Tides, The Art of Keeping Secrets, and Driftwood Summer. Her title The Stories We Tell was released in June 2014 and made the hot Book Club List for 2014.
Patti Callahan Henry has also appeared in several magazines including Good Housekeeping, Skirt Magazine, and Southern Living. Two of her novels were Okra Picks and Coming up For Air was selected for the August 2011 Indie Next List. She is a frequent speaker at fundraisers, library events and book festivals.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Kirkus Review
A fictional work based on real-life events in the life of the author's sister. In the fictional version, Katie falls in love with Jack when she is 13 and makes a promise she will love him forever. He reciprocates, and they are a happy couple throughout high school and manage to get through four years at separate colleges. But when Katie wants to take a job in Arizona counseling disturbed young women in a therapeutic wilderness program, Jack finds it hard to wait for her return. She visits but must go back to help a young woman who needs her. He meets someone he doesn't love like he loves Katie, but he wants to settle down and have a family. By the time Katie realizes she is pregnant with their child, Jack is married to someone else. Katie's parents do not condemn her out-of-wedlock pregnancy. They want, in fact, to have and care for a grandchild, but whether from a feeling of inadequacy or disappointment that Jack failed to wait, Katie decides to give the little girl to an anonymous couple who have been trying to have a child for years. She meets another man she'd like to love as much as Jack, but before she can open a new chapter in her life, she must see Jack to discuss and close the last chapter. In the midst of these developments, the daughter they continue to think about and love for 13 years finds them. Lives are rearranged, and cherished dreams are finally realized. In a forward to readers, the author characterizes her younger sister's decision to give a child up for adoption as courageous and heart-rending. She goes on to tell us that when this child, her niece, later found her birth mother's family via Facebook, she was inspired to write a novel that explores the emotions and life changes that such a miraculous reunion can bring to a family. A touching story.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
A Patti Callahan Henry (Coming Up for Air, 2012) story can be counted on to contain one or more of the following: secrets from the past, lost love, and a damaged heroine who keeps others at arm's length. Her latest novel sticks true to form, with a twist Henry drew inspiration from her own sister's true-life story. In the fictional version, the secret harbored by Kate, owner of an upscale boutique, is that she gave a baby girl up for adoption when she was young. This is news only to Kate's current boyfriend, Rowan, who's about to propose marriage. Before she can commit, Kate needs to find closure with Jack, the father of her child and the love of her life. When her daughter, now a teenager, manages to track Kate down, the situation grows more complicated. Henry instills her characters with precisely the complex emotions and erratic behavior one would expect in the situation. Though she presents an idealized outcome, Henry does effectively convey how such reunions are tinged with equal parts elation and fear.--Wetli, Patty Copyright 2010 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Katie Vaughn isn't sure she wants to continue her relationship with Rowan, even though he seems ideal. So when she finds an engagment ring hidden in his drawer, she panics and casts her memory back to the first day of spring when she was 13. She had experienced her first kiss and first brush with love with classmate Jack Adams. She promised to love him always, but now, at age 35, Katie no longer has Jack in her life. A secret she shared with him so long ago has resurfaced, and this has caused Katie to revisit the past and reevaluate her life. Henry (Coming Up for Air) creates likable characters to whom readers can relate in this novel, which was inspired by a true-life incident in her own family. VERDICT Although readers will likely know how the story will end, they may not know how they will get to that ending. Recommended for fans of authors such as Elin Hilderbrand and Joshilyn Jackson.-Amber -Woodard, Cumberland Univ. Lib., Lebanon, TN (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.