Young and naïve Cherisse Bridwell had focused solely on completing her college degree and beginning her career until one hot summer evening when her frightened older sister, Shelly, arrives looking for help. Cher's carefully ordered life quickly comes to an end. Trapped in an abusive marriage, Shelly is terrified and has nowhere else to go but to her overworked and oblivious sister. Though Cher is not prepared to handle the effects of a controlling and violent husband, fate delivers help via police sergeant Brandon Nicholson. With his strength and guidance, he shows Cherisse and Shelly how to survive and how to live life to the fullest. As both women find their inner strength, Cher and Brandon fall in love and build a future together. However, life is full of ups and downs, and through it all Cher and her family must continue to face every day with a feeling of hope and optimism, even when it seems as though all hope is gone. "Collette's emotionally charged fiction transports the reader so completely into her character's lives it is easy to become engrossed." Roxanne Smolen, author of Mindbender Voted #35 in Heart Press Publishing's Best of Women's Fiction 2011. Visit heartpress.com. For my wonderful readers! Due to the overwhelming requests for a sequel to FOREVER SUNSHINE, I wanted to announce that I am still hard at work with the Evans Family series. Book one, IF WE DARE TO DREAM (Nov. 2011), introduces the family, and Cher's story continues as the series evolves. I thank you all for sharing her journey with me and hope you enjoy learning more about Chuck Evans' relatives. Growing up, Collette always knew that she would be a writer. She began composing stories in her head at the age of eight and was soon putting them down on paper for her closest friends to read. Since then she has obtained her bachelor's degree in English and her master's in education while squeezing in her writing whenever she can. FOREVER SUNSHINE is her first published novel, though she is still writing actively. The New England native now resides in Arizona with her husband, three children and multiple family pets. Used Book in Good Condition