Miles Ryan’s life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah, but also longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah’s second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively Miles and Sarah reach out to each other, soon the are falling in love. But what neither realizes is that they are also bound together by a shocking secret, one that will force them to re-examine everything they believe in, including their love.
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Twenty-something-year-old twin sisters Heather and Heidi divide their time between designing their true birds fashion accessories, which sell at stores like Nordstrom, and freelancing for print and online magazines such as seventeen. One day they asked each other “where do fairy godmothers come from?” and voila!, fairy birds was born, the perfect intersection of the twins’ design and writing worlds. Their Fairy Birds book series teach children positive attributes like giving, loving, kindness and others. Fairy Birds is based out of sunny California and the co-authors are currently working on earning all of their fairy godmother feathers.