Novel Magic: Burning Bridges

Lies and Love

by

Anne Krist

“Did you ever tell a lie for so long thateven you believed it? And then got caught? Ah… Then you understand Sara in AnneKrists’ Burning Bridges.”

We all know whatit’s like to tell a lie and how it can lead to other lies. We don’t mean themto grow. We don’t mean them to hurt anyone. We don’t mean them to entangle ourlives over and over until we can’t tell what’s true and what’s false.

But sometimes ithappens.

It starts off sosimply. You’re young, in trouble, and abandoned by the man you thought lovedyou. Your parents help because they love you and want you out of yourhorrible situation and back to living a normal life that everyeighteen-year-old girl should have. Instead, they start the ball rolling onthat lie. That first one. The one that leads to the rest of your life.

In BurningBridges, Sara Richards has spent half of her life telling lies. At thebeginning of the book, she hardly remembers what her life was like before the falsehoodsbegan. Then one day she receives letters she should have received more thenthree decades before, and her life turns upside down.

While drivingfrom South Carolina to Virginia to visit my mom once, I heard a news story onthe radio that told of a couple bags of mail found stuffed in the back of aman’s garden shed. The most the Post Office could figure is that a mail carrierdidn’t feel like working one day, so he went home and hid the bags. I foundthat so intriguing. It made me think about how many lives were changed by thatone act. Did someone not receive a bill that was overdue? Did someone notreceive a college acceptance? Or a wedding invitation?

Or a love letter?

We never knowwhat alterations strangers make to our lives, completely without our awareness.It was one of the things that made writing Burning Bridges fun. Asromance writers, we’re used to writing conflict that the protagonists bring onthemselves. Or even conflict instigated by friends or family. We don’t seeconflict brought on my players totally off the stage as often, yet Sara’s andPaul’s lives are undeniably different after Sara receives her three letters.All kinds of betrayals are revealed, along with the burning bridges theycreated.

Burning Bridges by Anne Krist

Consider the roleof strangers in our lives. An unknown postman in Virginia hides a bag of mailone day. His simple action set in motion untold consequences for manyothers—strangers—all over the country. How many bridges were burned in thatforgotten mail pouch?

Sara Richards’sworld is rocked when three love letters from 1970 are delivered decades late.The letters were written by Paul Steinert, a young sailor who took herinnocence with whispered words of love and promises of forever before leavingfor Vietnam. Sara is left behind, broken hearted and secretly pregnant,yearning for letters she never received.

Then Paul died.

Now, years later,she discovers the betrayal wasn’t Paul’s, when her mother confesses to a sinthat changed their lives forever. How can Sara reveal to Paul’s parents thatthey have a granddaughter they’ve missed the chance to know? Even worse, howwill she find the words to tell her daughter that she’s lived her life in theshadow of a lie?

Picking her waythrough the minefields of secrets, distrust, and betrayal, Sara finds thatputting her life together again while crossing burning bridges will be thehardest thing she’s ever done.

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Meet The Author of Burning Bridges

A few years ago,Dee S. Knight began writing, making getting up in the morning fun. During theday, her characters killed people, fell in love, became drunk with power, orsober with responsibility. And they had sex, lots of sex. She is the primarypersona of three pen names—triplets, if you will: Dee, Anne Krist, and JennaStewart.

As noted above,Dee S. Knight writes erotic romance—emphasis on the romance! She was part of ananthology named a Top Pick in Romantic Times magazine (Resolutions) and thesole author of another Top Pick designation, for the paranormal erotic romance,Passionate Destiny.

“Sister” AnneKrist does not write erotic romance. Her book, Burning Bridges, has receivedhigh praise and multiple 5-star reviews because of the depth of the romance andemotion. Burning Bridges is Anne’s first book but she has a series planned thatshe hopes to have out soon.

Third of thetriplets is Jenna Stewart. Jenna has tried her hand at ménage—in bothhistorical and shifter books. She wrote the Sisters O’Ryan series set duringthe westward migration in the U.S., the Great Wolves of Men-Edge, and UnlikelyBedfellows.

Regardless of thename she uses to write during the day, their dream man, childhood sweetheart,and long-time hubby are all the same guy. What happens during their nights aretheir secret.

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