<p><strong>The Discovery of Destiny&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Laura Michaelson knows the expected course of her life. The right education. The right guy. The bright future.&nbsp;</p><p>None of it fits quite as well as it used to.&nbsp;</p><p>Connor Griffith's path detoured for work he loves. Now pressure to get back on track builds to uncomfortable levels.&nbsp;</p><p>Resisting the proper choices grows tougher every day.&nbsp;</p><p>The instant Laura and Connor meet, their lives and plans dissolve into chaos.&nbsp;</p><p>Will they find their true joy, and their true way forward, together?&nbsp;</p><p><strong>An excerpt from <em>Storms of the Heart</em>: </strong></p><p>One glance, and everything changed.&nbsp;</p><p>Connor turned away to check out the big red brick high school and stopped. He was surprised and a little embarrassed to realize his jaw had actually dropped, but that didn't change the effect.&nbsp;</p><p>An absolutely gorgeous woman walked toward them, with a smile brighter than the leaves on all those autumn trees.&nbsp;</p><p>She was around his age, and moved with all the strength and confidence he'd ever seen from women in the city and more.&nbsp;</p><p>The early evening sun seemed to start a fire all its own in her curly blonde hair, caught back in a bouncy ponytail that struck Connor as a real shame.&nbsp;</p><p>He wanted to see her hair loose and falling around her shoulders, shifting with every move of her body.&nbsp;</p><p>Every <em>breath</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>He shook his head, not sure where on earth such thoughts could be coming from inside his normally calm and pretty much orderly mind.&nbsp;</p><p>But no one had ever struck him so deep and hard on first sight.</p>