Linda mather

Linda mather

About

I am a therapist. clinical supervisor, trainer and behavioural family therapist and author. I have three children and eight grandchildren.I love holidays, amateur dramatics and reading.

Vital Temptations: A Heart's Betrayal

Vital Temptations: A Heart's Betrayal

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<p>Dr. Bethany McNeal is living her dream as a pediatric resident in one of the most sought-after medical centers in Seattle. Beautiful and intelligent, she’s missing only one thing—love, which she put on hold to focus on her career after ending a tumultuous relationship. Everything changes when she meets Dr. Brent Anderson, a charming and handsome fellow resident. Despite her reservations, Bethany falls for Brent—hard. When she learns Brent is married several months into their relationship, she immediately breaks it off. After graduating residency and going their separate ways, Bethany tries to move on with another man—real estate broker and personal trainer Charles Blakely. But just when things get serious with Charles, she realizes she’s still in love with Brent, and she finds herself caught between the two men, facing a series of difficult decisions and harrowing events that will change her life forever. Will she be able to recover from the vital temptations that turned her perfect life upside down?</p>

Story Behind The Book

“I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio” I’ve never forgotten that quote, I’d read it in one of my mothers magazines, it was Joan Rivers and I had spent hours admiring her photograph believing that this was what I should look like, be like. I was about thirteen at the time. She, Joan Rivers, had the same kind of mother as I had. I no longer felt so alone in the world, knowing there were others just like me. One day I will be famous I had thought, and I will say things like that, let them know exactly what my mother was – a whore, a child abuser and a nonentity, at least she was now. I’d had dreams, dreams that never came true, my life, and my waking hours had been one long nightmare and my sleep had been my respite where I could wish for happier times, when I could dream about blissful times, about becoming someone like Joan Rivers. My dreams are what kept me sane, kept me from wanting to die, when I awoke from the dream I would want to sleep again to go back into the dream that helped me to escape my miserable life. Being born is like a lottery, you don’t know which mother you are going to get. I was number 326 lining up waiting to be embedded in some woman’s womb; ironically 325 didn’t feel well on the day of my consummation so was made to sit out. If he had been well then my life might have been so very different, I would have got a nice mother then. Instead I got ‘her’; instead I drew the short straw. Did your child get the short straw? Hey you! I’m talking to you! Put the book down, YES YOU! Did your child get the short straw or was he lucky and won the lottery! “We are not makers of history. We are made by history” – Martin Luther King Junior This means that I have been made by my history, my life has made me who I am and also my mother, she has made me who I am today. Or would I have been like this anyway, was it in my DNA, was it nature or nurture? Perhaps you will be able to answer my question after reading my story, after living in my world even if just for the time it takes to read this book, or after stepping into the shoes that I was forced to wear either by my upbringing or by my DNA. So please don’t judge me as you read my story as this could have been you, if you had drawn the short straw like I did.

Reviews

<font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Brilliant!!!</span></strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">, November 16, 2012 </span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">By </span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A2ISCS4DX247OL/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp"><strong><span style="color:#004b91;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Mrs. H. Mcconnell &quot;brodie&quot;</span></strong></a><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"> (UK) - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A2ISCS4DX247OL/ref=cm_cr_pr_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&amp;sort_by=MostRecentReview"><span style="color:#004b91;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">See all my reviews</span></a><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"><br /></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=cm_rn_bdg_help?ie=UTF8&amp;nodeId=14279681&amp;pop-up=1#RN"><span style="color:#004b91;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">(REAL NAME)</span></a><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"></span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color:#e47911;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">This review is from: </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:7.5pt;">Gut Instinct (Kindle Edition)</span></strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:7.5pt;"></span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">I was engrossed right from the start. Excellent piece of writing, keeps you hanging on the whole way through! I love psychological thrillers, this is one of the best I have read in a long time! What an ending, well done, the author fantastic read!!!!</span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"></span></p><p> </p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Twisted tale!</span></strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">, November 24, 2012 </span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">By </span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A15KOCJOI95B3O/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp"><strong><span style="color:#004b91;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">RoJo</span></strong></a><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"> - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A15KOCJOI95B3O/ref=cm_cr_pr_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&amp;sort_by=MostRecentReview"><span style="color:#004b91;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">See all my reviews</span></a><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"></span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color:#e47911;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">This review is from: </span></strong><strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:7.5pt;">Gut Instinct (Kindle Edition)</span></strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:7.5pt;"></span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">I was sucked into the story early on and spent the rest of the day reading. Easy to read, amusing, puzzling, sad, savage, insightful AND with a twist in the tale. I am looking forward to the next book.</span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"></span></p><p> </p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Brillant</span></strong><span style="font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">, 15 Nov 2012 </span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">By </span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pdp/profile/A3Q72M1L2IGV9Q/ref=cm_cr_pr_pdp"><strong><span style="color:#004b91;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">claire</span></strong></a><span style="font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"> - </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3Q72M1L2IGV9Q/ref=cm_cr_pr_auth_rev?ie=UTF8&amp;sort_by=MostRecentReview"><span style="color:#004b91;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">See all my reviews</span></a><span style="font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"></span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;line-height:normal;" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color:#e47911;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">This review is from: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:7.5pt;">Gut Instinct (Paperback)</span></strong><span style="font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:7.5pt;"></span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Well I didn’t expect that at the end. i couldn't put this book down and read 30 chapters in one night. Well done on a brilliant book.</span></p><p></p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Verdana, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;"></span></p><p> </p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font>