C T Bondurant

Fate & Forgiveness C T Bondurant

Smart capable Claire is a people fixer, paid to solve others' problems. But Fate won't let her repair her own when she moves to Arizona. And her world is heading south, faster than a speeding bullet. When all else fails, will magic stop the free-fall? At wits end, unable to find work, she seeks council of a friend's trusted shaman. But the help given isn't what's expected. Handed a puzzling riddle and a daunting ritual, Claire must review her painful past to understand her life's purpose and challenge a difficult family legacy. When she does, her prayers are answered with the arrival of two gifts. The first is just what's needed---the perfect job. But the second could be more than she can handle when she takes to roads untraveled with an attractive, hard-living mountain man. With her newly acquainted guide, ambivalent Claire undergoes a mystical journey, enhanced by the desert's Ancient Ones. Driving summer rains are the backdrop to the stormy love affair that develops between them. Tension builds as the lovers each try to undo a troubled past. Will an unforeseen climax give Claire a chance to close the door to old trauma? Or has Fate tossed her another seismic curve ball? C. T. Bondurant's first novel creates a deceptively simple tapestry, weaving modern psychology and elements of magic into a contemporary women's fiction that will appeal to readers of mystical realism. The story explores dynamics of opposite attraction between two people at the apex of their lives. Oblivious to how Fate has intertwined their passion over several lifetimes, the lovers struggle to confront their differences and sustain their involvement. The narrative speaks to every woman's taboo involvement with a bad boy trying his best to be good, who steals her heart but leaves it empty.