On Loving

In 1972 Dr. Rose Hemmings has just finished her general surgery residency when a haunted stranger is shot in front of her in a New York City bar and their lives become forever intertwined. And when having been given the blessing of her adoptive father on his deathbed Rose travels to prerevolutionary Iran to discover the past her American family kept secret from her she finds a true Pandoras box. It is a world both foreign and familiar in which her primary place is as the heiress to a great tribe. In Iran Rose will find family she never dreamed of her own people and a man who loves her as passionately as he does the rare black roses of his garden. She will return to the United States carrying a new secret and torn between two men: the one she loves helplessly and the one who loves her unconditionally. Woven throughout with Persian poetry ancient and modern On Loving is the story of one womans lifetime of love and loss of societal change in a nomadic people and of overcoming personal challenges including mental and physical health to find true contentment. Above all it is a story of love: its physiology psychology and philosophy; the many forms it takes; its myths and truths; its challenges its joys and its gifts.-Winner of the 2020 Gold Independent Publisher Book Award for Adult Fiction E-book-Winner of the 2020 Silver eLit Award for Romance