This Time Love: a Classic Love Story

Publisher Marketing: Joy Anderson was innocent, young, and trusting when she met Gabe Venture. An aspiring journalist with worlds to conquer, Gabe came to New Mexico to explore the natural wonders of Lost River Cave, with Joy acting as his guide. Surrounded by staggering beauty they both surrendered to a passion too powerful to deny and Joy gave herself freely to the most extraordinary man she had ever known. But Gabe was destined for great things, and even the intensity of their shared feelings could not bind him to this place or this romance. And so he left Joy with memories, a broken heart and months later, with a cherished, if painful, reminder of their lost love: a daughter. Seven years have passed, and Joy now a respected professor has put what once was behind her, though the memory will always remain alive in the light that shines in the eyes of her beautiful child. Still, the life they have made has no room for shattered dreams. But now Gabe has returned. At the pinnacle of his profession, having tasted the fame and adventure that lured him away, he has never been able to fill the inner emptiness that has rendered his achievements bittersweet. The opportunity to revisit the endangered Lost River Cave and a second chance at the young love he so heedlessly tossed away is something he cannot let slip by. But the Joy awaiting him is not the same naive and eager innocent he once left behind. Worldly and independent, she has nursed her wounds and moved on. And he has arrived far too late, she tells him, to be welcomed back into her heart. But is it ever too late for love? Perhaps not, when there is still magic in a breathtaking world of natural wonder and mystery waiting for them once more beneath the rolling New Mexican desert the place where a miracle was born." Review Citations: Romantic Times 01/01/2003 pg. 100 (EAN 9780060533298, Paperback) Publishers Weekly 12/16/2002 pg. 46 (EAN 9780060087357, Hardcover) Library Journal 12/01/2002 pg. 179 (EAN 9780060087357, Hardcover) Library Journal 06/01/2003 (EAN 9781587882654, Analog Audio Cassette) Publishers Weekly 03/03/2003 (EAN 9781587882647, Analog Audio Cassette) Contributor Bio:  Lowell, Elizabeth Elizabeth Lowell's acclaimed suspense novels include the New York Times bestsellers Die in Plain Sight, Moving Target, and Running Scared, as well as the four books featuring the Donovan family, Amber Beach, Jade Island, Pearl Cove, and Midnight in Ruby Bayou. Lowell has more than thirty million books in print. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband, with whom she writes mystery novels under a pseudonym. Contributor Bio:  Merlington, Laural Laural Merlington has recorded well over one hundred audiobooks, including works by Margaret Atwood and Alice Hoffman, and is the recipient of several "AudioFile" Earphones Awards. An Audie Award nominee, she has also directed over one hundred audiobooks.