Blood, Sweat and Fears - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jean Marie StanberrySeries:Heart of a PhoenixPublish date:4/19/2014Pages:708
When people lose faith they become hopeless, after hopelessness comes desperation. At this point it seems there is nothing left to lose. Herein, lies the danger. Betrayal stings, especially when those who have betrayed you, are your own parents. Jenna Bruce was excited travel to Paris for the summer, unfortunately, her excitement was destined to be short lived. Shortly after her arrival in Paris she realizes she is the unwitting victim of a huge scam, designed by her own parents. As the lies constructed by her own dysfunctional family begin to unravel Jenna feels her life may be on a crash course with disaster. She feels completely abandoned and alone. Alexander Peterov is a world champion figure skater and he has just won the gold medal in the 1980 Olympics, he should be happy, right? The truth is, he's not. In fact, he would like nothing more than to escape his dreary life in the USSR and his upcoming arranged marriage, which he wants no part of. Fortunately, Alexander has a plan and Jenna Bruce seems like an easy target. She's young, naive and he hopes, easily manipulated. His plans entail seducing her and eventually marrying her, in the hopes that he could use their marriage to secure American citizenship. When Jenna proves to have no interest in his advances, Alexander begins to get desperate, his entire life seems to be riding on his seduction of her. Soon his desperation deteriorates into a strange obsession and Alexander begins creating a grand web of deception that has even Jenna's closest allies convinced that her and Alexander are lovers. When Alexander finally melts down and resorts to violence everyone is shocked. But Alexander is a skilled conman, will he be able to talk his way out of this huge scandal he has created?
Jean has enjoyed literature and writing her entire life. Until recently, Jean has been a busy wife and mother who works full time as a surgical nurse. Eight years ago, Jean and her family left the hustle and bustle of their home town, St. Louis, and moved to a charming resort town in Northwest Montana. Still, her busy life didn't leave her much time to pursue her love of writing. In the past several years both her children graduated from high school and she began to pursue her love of writing part time as a guest blogger for International Figure Skating's website and writing features for Skating magazine and Fire on Ice magazine. Jean's lifelong love of figure skating has taken her from a competitive and professional figure skater with "Holiday on Ice" to an award winning choreographer for multiple venues including "Holiday on Ice" and "Disney on Ice". Jean still loves to skate recreationally, but traumatic injuries sustained in a car accident effectively ended her career in skating. Jean went on to graduate from Southern Illinois University with a degree in finance, working briefly as a stock broker and a finance manager for a St. Louis based corporation. When the company sold out to a Detroit based company, Jean chose to stay behind in St. Louis and go back to school and pursue what she really wanted to do, which was nursing. Jean attended nursing school at Jefferson College and later obtained her BSN from Webster University in St, Louis, Missouri. After working many years in a variety of nursing positions, Jean enjoys her job working in surgery in a small rural hospital. Jean lives in northwest Montana with her husband Gary, and their adult children Ryan and Lauren. The entire family enjoys the great outdoors in the Rocky Mountains of Montana. Their favorite activities are hiking, biking, kayaking, cross country skiing, boating and traveling.
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