Katrina's
Destiny
ISBN# 1413749984
Release Date 2/28/05
Book Synopsis.
After the death of her grandmother Katrina goes to Denver, Colorado to escape
all the memories. Settled in with her new job and content with the new life she
had made for herself, Katrina wanted nothing more than to have a peaceful quiet
life. But all of that is turned upside down when in walks Noah. Noah can’t
believe he has met the woman of his dreams. Unable to suppress the feeling of
panic overwhelming him he runs like always. Why can’t he just let one person
into his life? Leaving Denver for the small town of Rambling Hills, he has no
idea how much his life is about to change. Katrina can’t believe that Noah is
the new Doctor in Rambling Hills, Colorado. Can she forgive the man that hurt
her? Will she be able to find her destiny with Noah?
Book Excerpt. Chapter 1
The funeral was almost over, Katrina thought despairingly. Now there was no one
but her, what was she going to do without her grandmother? If it hadn’t been for
Renee Barlow, Katrina wouldn’t have survived the awful death of her parents
eighteen years before. Renee had taken the heartbroken five year old Katrina
into her home and her heart. Katrina waited until Paul Sloan, the Preacher at
Rambling Hills Community Church finished the final prayer, then she let out the
heartfelt sobs she had been holding back.
Here it was the first week of June, it should have been sunny and bright, but
instead it was dark and gray, the rain was coming down slow and steady.
She felt someone put an arm around her, but she couldn’t look up to see who it
was. But then she heard her best friend Angela Ramsey’s voice by her ear. "It’s
all right Kat, cry all you want."
Finally pulling herself together, Katrina realized that a parade of people were
stepping in front of her to tell her how sorry they were that Renee was gone,
she would be sorely missed by all.
When Katrina got back to her grandmother’s house, it was full of people; someone
had set food out on the table in the dinning room. Katrina passed by the table
without glancing at it, the last thing she wanted to do was eat. She wanted her
grandmother to walk into the room and tell her it was all a big joke, she really
wasn’t dead, but Katrina knew that wouldn’t happen, so she went back into the
living room to visit with the people that had cared so much about her
grandmother.
She was sitting on the sofa a short while later when Edward Lang, her
grandmother’s attorney walked up to her.
"Katrina, my dear, I’m very sorry about Renee, she was a very special lady," he
said.
Thank you, Mr. Lang. I think so too."
"I hate to bring this up right now, but could we meet tomorrow morning around
ten-thirty. I would like to go over Renee’s will with you; we could meet here
instead of my office if you would rather.
"Thank you, I would appreciate that."
"If you need anything before then, just give me a call," he said before turning
to leave.
Finally everyone was gone except Angela. Katrina was relieved; all she wanted
was to be left alone with her memories of her beloved grandmother.
"Come on Kat," Angela said. "Come stay with me at the lodge, please," she
pleaded.
"I can’t stand the thought of you being here in this house all alone."
"It’s okay Angie, really I like being here, I feel closer to grandmother here."
"I know you do, but it would make me feel better if you were at home with me,
just for a couple of days, at least until you decide what you are going to do.
That was the hardest thing for me when mom and dad died in the car accident last
year, remember? If it hadn’t been for you and Granny Ramsey I don’t think I
could have gotten through it. Please Kat," she implored one more time. "Come
with me to the lodge."
"All right, but just for tonight, I have to be back here in the morning, Mr.
Lang is coming to go over grandmother’s will with me."
"Okay, let’s get you an overnight bag packed then we’ll be off."
That night lying in bed Katrina thought back to the day she had been told her
parent’s were dead. She had been five years old at the time. Her father had to
go to California on a business trip and he had convinced her mother to accompany
him. He had even wanted Katrina to go with them, but Renee had talked them into
leaving Katrina with her. She had told Thomas Barlow that she didn’t get to see
her granddaughter as much as she liked. This would give Thomas and Molly some
time alone, and Renee could have some time with her granddaughter. Katrina still
remembered the loving kiss that her mother and father had given her before they
had left. That was the last time she had seen her parent’s alive.
The next morning old Sheriff Ben had knocked on Renee Barlow’s door, telling her
the plane that Thomas and Molly had been on had crashed before it had reached
California. There had been 362 people on the plane and there were no survivors.
Her world had turned upside down that morning, but she had spent the last
eighteen years with the most loving woman in the world. And now she too was
gone.
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