Böcker av Ruth Madison

Kevin Murphy is back in Cedar Harbor for a fresh start and totally not because he's running away from mistakes that cost him his professional sledge hockey career in Toronto. No, he's come to the small New England town to help others, not to hide.Ten years ago Kevin lost both his legs and discovering adaptive sports helped give him his life back. Now he wants to start an amateur sled hockey team for newly injured men. Cedar Harbor is home to Thatcher Memorial Rehab where Kevin did his recovery and it's the perfect place to give back to the disabled community.Dr. Wilson insists on bringing a professional fundraiser on board. Carly Jennings is, as Dr. Wilson says, the best fundraiser in the state. She is organized, professional, and excellent at what she does.Kevin takes an instant dislike to her, resentful of able-bodied people taking over his project and concerned that paying her will not be a good investment in the team.What Kevin doesn't know is that Carly has a very personal relationship to the disability community. Her younger brother Robbie is a quadriplegic from a car accident when they were teens and she knows exactly how important sports are for giving newly injured people their lives back.She also knows that she'll have to fight past some very ingrained ableism to get donors to invest in a hockey team instead of a cure...but she's up for the challenge.Kevin and Carly fight over the best way to build this new sled hockey team while denying the intense chemistry between them. Until a game of Truth Or Dare changes everything...

An artistic young woman dealing with an unplanned pregnancy... A quadriplegic CEO in need of a wife and child... Their worlds are miles apart, yet in this moment they need each other. Chloe's life is unraveling fast. Her grand plans to live the starving artist's life are brought up short when she gets a positive pregnancy test. Suddenly she's got to find real employment and figure out a new plan. Erik is on the verge of losing the company that he's poured his life into. Despite an attack that nearly killed him and left him paralyzed from the shoulders down, he's kept up with his work. But an archaic stipulation in his father's will might cost him everything he wants. When Chloe confesses her real reason for needing a job, Erik begins to suspect that they might be able to help each other out. But as they build a fictional relationship, are their feelings just for show or turning into something more?

Elizabeth Foster is a young woman with a promising future. She has the perfect family in a nice neighborhood and she is getting ready to graduate from high school and begin her life. The only problem is a dark secret that she has kept hidden all her life. No one would ever guess that the quiet and shy girl has a rare sexuality. She is only attracted to men with physical disabilities. After years of trying to make it go away, Elizabeth comes face to face with the paraplegic man of her dreams and can fight it no longer. As they begin a relationship, she works hard to keep him from finding out the truth about her initial interest. But she can't hide it forever. Stewart Masterson was a champion surfer before he lost the use of his legs. He has come to Massachusetts running away from his past and trying to remake himself as someone new. He can't escape from his own guilt so easily, though. Only three people in the world know the truth about how he became paralyzed and he disappeared from the surfing world without his fans ever knowing what happened to him. He is making a new life for himself when he meets Elizabeth and they start a relationship based on secrets. Together they begin a terrifying journey of self-discovery.Will Elizabeth and Stewart learn to accept the broken parts in themselves and each other? Will they be able to re-define what it means to be whole or will fear and guilt drive them apart? *** -The synopsis won an honorable mention from the Byline Novel Synopsis contest -The book was an award finalist in the romance category of the USA Book News's National Best Books Awards in 2009