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Aspen's Ascent
Aspen's Ascent
Aspen's Ascent
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For most people, awakening from a coma after a year would be cause for joy—but what if you remember nothing, not even your own name? And open your eyes to only a blur of gray? Would you consider your renewed life a miracle or a curse?
For newly awake Aspen Windchase, the answer lies in the oblivion he finds in pharmaceutical drugs and the possibility they offer of a permanent exit. The claims of his twin sister Raven of a shared closeness and success as horse trainers mean nothing to him. He has even lost the link to his faith in God that might otherwise sustain him. When his former caregiver Allie offers him a place to stay and unlimited access to his pharmaceutical saviors, he jumps at the chance. But when the smitten young woman claims “Pen” is the father of her child, he can’t remember having made love to Allie—and doubts he would have been able to, given his increasing addiction.
When Allie lands in jail for buying drugs, another of Aspen’s caregivers comes to his rescue: Maura also takes the good-looking young cowboy into her home, but with the mission of helping Aspen kick his addiction. With the aid of Aspen’s pastor, Dave Benson, Maura leads Aspen out of his drug fog and back to his memory and faith in a loving, forgiving God, which she shares. What the woman doesn’t share is a belief that Aspen’s claim of love for her is anything more than misplaced gratitude. Having been twice disappointed by unfounded avowals of love from former patients, Maura flees. When Aspen, having gained personal and financial independence as a writer, goes looking for the woman he loves, she has vanished.
Aspen’s Ascent tells the story of how one man, having lost both his sight and his memory, manages to regain his faith in God, which is the missing piece he needs to rebuild his life on solid ground.

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Release dateMay 30, 2016
ISBN9781311513533
Aspen's Ascent
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Catherine Boyd

Mary Stormont BS, RN writing as Catherine Boyd is originally from Rockford, IL, but moved to Montana in 1965 to attend college in Bozeman, Montana. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Agricultural Production, Animal Science from Montana State University, and an Associate Degree in Nursing from Rock Valley College, in Rockford, IL. Married to a rancher for twelve years, she lived in the Wilsall, MT area and has ridden much of the country described in "Flight of the Crow", the first book in the Windchase family trilogy. After her divorce she worked as a general ranch hand and a sheepherder before going back to school to become a Registered Nurse, after which she worked in small rural Montana hospitals and nursing homes as Charge Nurse, Director of Nursing, Hospice, and Home Health nursing. Her other books include "Choosing a Nursing Home and Living With Your Choice" (hints and recommendations on how to make the nursing home experience the best it can be), and a short booklet on salvation entitled "Are You Sure? Are You REALLY Going to Heaven?. (free digital and paperback copies available)

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