Susan has spent her life communicating: talking, reading, writing, listening.
A former college teacher, for the past twenty years she has been a marriage and family therapist in private practice. She has traveled extensively, read voraciously and written continuously--lesson plans, case notes, journals, grocery lists, stories, two published novels (as Susan Ross), some journalism and a bit of scholarship. This is her first “self-help book.” Living in Ohio near her three sons and their families, she is currently absorbed with the assignment of learning the names of Thomas’ friends who circle the train track under her piano.
Naked Courage
By Susan Ross
As a victim assistance advocate, Sara Miller devotes her working life to aiding victims of heinous acts. As much as she knows about trauma and survival, nothing has prepared her to become the victim. She is simply driving home from work one day, daydreaming about how happy she is with her new life, when she sees a woman stranded by the side of the road. She decides to stop and help. Life as she knows it ends with that decision. Sara, the social worker who tirelessly leads victims back to sanity, is swamped in a nightmare more evil and depraved than any she has ever encountered. And she fi nds herself alone in her terror, left to find her own way home.
Heart
By Susan Ross
It began one passionate evening. It had to end one bittersweet weekend. For Ruth was leaving for the grandeur of Italy and the career of her dreams. And Tom could never leave his caring wife and the son who needed him so completely. So Ruth and Tom parted, perhaps never to touch again. But though they could no longer be together, they shared a love more enduring than the ocean that separated them. A love more desperate than the tragedies they both had to face. And though Ruth and Tom tried to avoid it, though they knew they could not change the courses of their lives, something was drawing them together. Some undeniable longing burning deep within their hearts.
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