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Rosalie’s Apple Tree
“Each step closer became heavier with a hope he was afraid to embrace. It was a hope he didn’t want to mistake as his future.”
Rosalie’s widower, Aaron Keller, has adjusted to single fatherhood and yearns to give his only son a sibling, but finding the right mix of intelligence, maturity, and appeal in a woman who’d be a nurturing mother to his three-year-old with Down syndrome is bound to be impossible. The thought of his son growing up alone haunts Aaron daily—until the long-lost crush from his youth, Katrina Lopez, shows up on his doorstep.
Thirty-five-year-old Dr. Lopez, an associate professor of psychology, lives an independent and predictable life complete with her own farmhouse and a German Shepherd to keep her safe. All is well—except for her recurring intimate dreams about her childhood crush, Aaron Keller, the boy she swore she’d marry and the man she turned down fifteen years ago. When Katrina pays Aaron a surprise visit in hopes of sating her unexplored attraction, passion sweeps her toward a life-changing realization—something led her to his son, Isaac.
Falling in love too soon stirs emotional ghosts. Katrina, who’s coped with post-traumatic stress disorder since childhood, doesn’t trust Aaron’s motives. And her liberated sexuality, which captivates Aaron, awakens the dark obsessive-compulsive disorder he battled in the aftermath of Rosalie’s death. Failure to conquer the darkness within will destroy their lifelong dream of being together. And losing each other again, especially when Isaac needs them both, isn’t in their plans.
NOW AVAILABLE on Amazon in paperback and ebook.
Audience: Mature (erotic content)
ann garcia author artist
about ann
Ann Garcia has a Ph.D. in psychology and a creative drive that never rests. Her poetry and fiction, which are highly introspective and evocative, primarily explore nature, self, and love. She draws inspiration from waters and woodlands within the Great Lakes region of the USA and her life as a wife/artist/mother/scientist.
Ann is the author of Fantastical for Real (prose poetry) and Love Me Like October (poetry and photography). She is a contributor in publications by Humana Obscura, Sunday Mornings At The River, and The First Line Poets Project, among others. Her poetic writing style flows into her fiction. Rosalie’s Apple Tree is her first novel.
Ann is an active artist on Instagram where she shares her photography, poetry, and her newfound creative outlets, watercolor and digital art. Find her on Instagram @solaceinraindrops or in the nearest garden where she’s bound to be taking photos of blooms, bees, or slime mold while holding off two corgis and trying not to hear her kids yelling, “Mom!”
praise for ann's writing
"Such a sweet story. I enjoyed this book so much, especially the psychological themes and thoughts Ann Garcia took care to dive into so beautifully. A wonderful love story between characters who are facing very real-life hardships and are portrayed in a relatable way. Easy to read, captured my attention, and thought-provoking."
"What a lovely book! I thoroughly connected with, and enjoyed Ann's words of love, nature and self. The cover is beautifully designed as well. It would look amazing on any coffee table."
"Your words are like a portrait of autumn."
poetry & photography
Love Me Like October
“He’d been invited to dance with a poet, but his mind slipped through her words and scattered across the floor.
While their music played, she knelt to pick up his pieces and then strung them into a necklace she’d wear forevermore.”
Within her second poetry chapbook, Love Me Like October, Ann Garcia’s sensual words and nature photography weave themselves into a guide about how to love.
Audience: General
prose poetry
Fantastical for Real
Fantastical for Real invites you to escape adulthood, think outside life’s box, and join Ann Garcia on a (self) love journey via her unique brand of prose poetry. Inspired by a metaphysical connection that resulted in significant inner growth, Fantastical for Real weaves appreciation for nature into Ann’s concept of the creative’s self, the creative’s soul mate, and the potential found inside where hopes and disappointments play tug-of-war while the soul plans its triumph.
Audience: General
about river blossoms press
River Blossoms Press is my publishing house, which I founded for artistic expression.
river · ever-flowing life
blossoms · art that grows within
This house neither rushes nor expects and it grows in its own time. Just like my life.
Ann