The Year I Left
by Christine Brae Published by: Vesuvian Books Publication date: August 20th, 2019 Genre: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Women’s Fiction “A thousand half loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.” Carin Frost doesn’t understand what’s happening to her. A confident businesswoman, wife, and mother, she begins to resent everything about her life. Nothing makes sense. Nothing makes her feel. Maybe it’s the recent loss of her mother in a tragic accident. Or maybe she’s just losing her mind. Enter Matias Torres. As their new business partnership thrives, so does their friendship—and his interest in her. Carin is determined to keep her distance, until a work assignment sends them to Southeast Asia where a storm is brewing on the island. In the midst of the chaos, Matias asks her to do something unimaginable, exhilarating, BOLD. Carin knows the consequences could be dire, but it may be the only way to save herself. An honest look at love and marriage and the frailties of the human heart, this is a story of a woman’s loss of self and purpose and the journey she takes to find her way back. 
From the outside, Carin Frost is a woman who appears to have it all – a successful career, a loving marriage and a beautiful ten-year-old son. On the inside, she’s barely holding on.
She feels as if her life has become a vast void of nothingness and every time she tries to claw her way out, she ends up falling even deeper. Until one day in San Francisco. I had been grateful once. These days I was impervious to the passion I used to have for life. I agreed that nothing made sense when you looked at me from the outside. Everything was so in place, it was ridiculous. I had no secrets, no scandalous past. Just an ordinary life with ordinary joys and ordinary sorrows. At least that’s how it looked to me.
Matias Torres is known for being shrewd in business. He became one of the youngest CIOs because of his hard work and persistence. And he’s going to use all of that to get closer to the beautiful Carin. The moment that he meets her, he knows that there will never be anything that he wants more than her. But first, there are still entanglements that he has to break free of back home in Spain.
As the chemistry between them grows even hotter, Carin comes to terms with the fact that her marriage is indeed over. Being with Matias again to close one of the biggest deals of her career could really be the brand-new beginning she’s been looking for. But just how much will they have to sacrifice to finally be together? You stood and took a seat next to me. You hooked your arm around my shoulder and I leaned on your chest. You buried your nose in my hair and kissed the top of my head. “Time is nothing. People can be married for fifty years and be dead inside for just as long. What you feel, Carina. What I feel, here and now. I could die tomorrow and it would have been a lifetime for me, to have held you like this for ten minutes.”
The Year I Left is so much more than just a romance. It’s one woman’s journey to find out who she really is.
The character of Carin struggles with what it really means to be a wife, a mother and a business force in her own right. Christine then masterfully blends this hidden battle together with the discovery of a love so strong and true that the emotions threaten to leap right off the page. With her soulful prose, she moves you to tears and fills you with hope. And in the end, her words will haunt you for a long, long time... 
About The Author ~
Christine Brae is a senior executive with a full time career, who thought she could write a book about her life and then run away as far as possible from it. She never imagined that her words would touch the hearts of so many women with the same story to tell. Christine has written six books since her first release in 2013. She is the author of The Light in the Wound and His Wounded Light (2013), Insipid (2014), In This Life (2016) and Eight Goodbyes (2018).
Her latest book, The Year I Left is scheduled for release in August 2019. When not listening to the voices in her head or spending late nights at the office, Christine can be seen shopping for shoes and purses, running a half marathon or spending time with her husband and three children in Chicago. Christine is represented by Italia Gandolfo of Gandolfo Helin & Fountain Literary Management. Visit With Christine ~
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