Dragonflies And Dinosaurs (Harlequin Next Tall) [Paperback]

Kate Austin (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (December 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373230540
• ISBN-13: 978-0373230549
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,753,666 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Even though I'm an Aries (the fire sign), I think of myself as a water baby. I can't resist the ocean; it sings to me. Every day, I spend at least a few moments watching the water, and on good ' or very bad ' days, you can find me walking the Seawall for hours, rain or shine.

I've worked as a legal assistant, a commercial fisher, a brewery manager, a teacher, a technical writer, and a herring popper, while managing to read an average of a book a day. Go ahead ' ask me anything. If I don't know the answer, I'm more than happy to make it up because I've been reading and writing fiction for as long as I can remember.

I blame my mother and my two grandmothers for my reading and writing obsession ' all of them were avid readers and they passed the books and the obsession on to me. And I read everything, from fantasy to mysteries to literary fiction to romance. I devour books.

I write the same way ' with passion. It's part of my day, every day. I love writing, the process and the product, and am astonished and delighted that 20 years on, I'm finally getting paid for it.

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4.0 out of 5 stars deep psychological drama, December 15, 2005

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This review is from: Dragonflies And Dinosaurs (Harlequin Next) (Mass Market Paperback)

Two years ago her mother died from breast cancer shaking up then forty- years old Randy Roman, who already suffered from panic attacks and other anxieties. Now her sister Susan suffers from the same illness sending Randy's stress level to the stratosphere. Increasing her sibling's anxiety exponentially, Susan asks Randy to escort her two sons Mickey and Eric to their hometown of Cranberry Portage, Canada to sprinkle their mom's ashes over the turf the woman cherished.

Unable to say no, Randy screws up her courage, takes leave from the bank she has worked at for two decades, and begins the quest accompanied by her nephews and Dexter the canine they found on the trail. Along the way Randy becomes comfortable with her charges and much of her stress vanishes. In Cranberry Portage, she meets biologist Tom Webb, who lives in what was once her mom's home.

DRAGONFLIES AND DIAMONDS is a captivating look at a woman who finds anything outside of her narrow comfort zone debilitating, but shows courage as she treks with her nephews on a journey that turns into one of self discovery. Randy is a crippled person unable to do much more than work at the bank when her sister hits her with the only task that she cannot refuse in spite of the crippling fear that threatens to drown her. Readers will sympathize with the embattled heroine trying to overcome her phobia though the ending is too simple for such a deep psychological drama.

Harriet Klausner