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Synopsis
When successful bookstore owner, Shelly Keel, is returning to her home in Boston from a business trip, she recognizes a fellow passenger on her flight as David Street, the man that broke her heart ten years before. Although tempted, she resists confronting him and quickly goes about living her life which is very full except for love. A few weeks later Shelly comes face to face with David at a North Side restaurant. When David indicates to her that he would like to get together with her, she turns him down cold. David, a private detective, finds out where Shelly works and comes to see her at her store. Reluctantly, Shelly agrees to have lunch with him and hear his explanation of why he walked out of her life ten years before. David wants to reestablish a relationship with Shelly, but she wants no part of it. When problems at the bookstore, create a need for a detective, Shelly's partner convinces her reluctantly to allow David to enter the scene in his professional capacity. The close proximity and a developing relationship between Shelly's partner and David's associate draw them closer together. A sudden crises forces Shelly and David to confront their feelings for each other and their future.
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Rod is a retired former Junior High School social studies teacher and retail manager. He first tried a hand writing in the seventies. While still teaching, he co-authored a mystery novel with another teacher. That novel received some interest from two different publishers, but was deemed to be of insufficient length to publish. Rod and his co-author said on several occasions that someday they would dig it out and try to expand it. However, Rod left teaching for a management position in the hardware/home center field, and his co-author passed away. Still, every once in awhile, Rod would say to himself that someday he would give writing another try. A few weeks after he retired, Rod decided that “someday” had come. He dusted off the manuscript from the mid seventies and rewrote it. He revised and expanded it. He is currently working to see that work published. After finishing that project, Rod decided to dive into another idea that had been lurking in the back of his mind for some time. He wanted to try his hand at a mystery/romance. The result of this effort is When Pasts Collide. As he started the story, he thought that he would weave a romance into a mystery story. However, as the project evolved and reached a conclusion, the story ended up being more a romance novel with some mystery woven in. More than one person told Rod that a romance written by a male author would have no chance of acceptance by the readers of romance novels. Being something of a romantic at heart, he rejected this train of thought and forged ahead. Rod lives with his wife of forty-two years, Joyce, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has three grown children and seven grandchildren. He is an avid fan of professional football and hockey. He has been an enthusiastic reader and collector of mystery novels since his early teens. His home library contains well over four hundred and fifty novels from a variety of authors including complete or nearly complete collections of Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Rex Stout, Emilie Loring, Margaret Truman, Dorothy Gilman, Sue Grafton, Catherine Coulter, and Lilian Jackson Braun. Rod spent his childhood in Muscatine, Iowa, and moved to Lafayette, Colorado at the start of high school. After a hitch in the Navy, mostly at the Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor Hawaii, Rod returned to Colorado to attend college at Colorado State College (now University of Northern Colorado) in Greeley. He has lived in Colorado Springs since graduation from college. Rod also enjoys traveling around the United States whenever he can. Much of the research for When Past Collide was conducted on visits to his son and daughter-in-law in the Boston area.
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When Pasts Collide
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Crystal Dreams Pub (edition ), 2005
ISBN 10: 1591460433
ISBN 13: 9781591460435
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