Title: Oregon Re-Released
Author: Clay Renick
Published in 2006 by: Romance at Heart Publications
Genre: Contemporary Romance
ISBN # 0-9785189-1-8
Chronic fatigue, a generic term, is a disease that strikes many people. The tremendous discomfort and languorous sensations wage constant war within the body. Sometimes it is hard to diagnosis and even harder to find some relief to do any simple chore or lively leisure activity. And with any hurting or troubling illness in one’s life the suffering can be quite significant.
On the lovely Oregon Coast, Julie Fox never imagined her life would be intertwining with someone from Atlanta, GA. When the Native American is asked to do an interview she assures she is not an information source but rather a doctor. Julie understands completely about the agony of pain in any shape or form. She suffers from a terrible loss that happened eight months ago to her dear fiancé in a drowning accident that still haunts her. In a way, she is in her own depressant stage and only desires to concentrate on her patients.
Julie chose to continue with her medical practice after the loss of her fiancé. Reaching out and helping patients is important to her. Wall pictures of the Oregon Coast hang with lighthouses in every one as a metaphor of hope. When she is approached by Kyle to help with a book he is composing, she is not certain that she has the answers he requires. She quickly informs that she doesn’t speak to any journalist. He refuses to budge desperately seeking some kind of answer, leaving her to finally confront him. The disease he wishes responses on is very complicated often with no solutions or prescription to fully take away the ache. In his quest to get facts most beneficial, their discoveries bring them closer together in ways they never imagined.
Kyle Summer is a journalist and a writer who quickly learns that the illness that disrupts his life also plays havoc with millions of others. He searches everywhere for any information that will help in his hunt about chronic fatigue and possible relief. It is a good distance from Atlanta to the Oregon Coast but one that he is willing to make. When his investigation leads him to Oregon to speak to a doctor he quickly finds that the door might very well be slammed in his face but rejection is something that he is not ready to hear.
Kyle use to be an American football player but anymore he is so weak he grows winded just climbing stairs. He has lost everything to him that is important because of the crippling disease. He is desperate with a life going nowhere but to the trash. The baffling disease is enough to make one lose their sanity. Feeling that Julie is his only help, he pushes until she will listen. He feels like she is an expert on the subject of acute fatigue. And after several months of investigation and a cross country trip he knows that she is his only help. After traveling twenty-eight hundred miles he is not ready to have the door shut in his face after learning that the disease is not only frustrating but affects the mind.
Julie finds a slow growing attraction after spending time with Kyle. For months she had been filled with loneliness. Now a sweet man enters her life and transports her to moments of joy she had forgotten. Kyle felt something with Julia that he thought he would never feel for anyone but she has not only helped with his book but make him alive in many ways. As a doctor, she has her patients, and as a writer, he has his skills to get the word across about the disease that inflicts many often causing a good deal of weakness. His writing often takes him away from her and leaves him wondering if that life is one she could accept. Then there is Julie’s mother. She quickly informs Julie if she grows serious about Kyle there really isn’t any future in his line of work. She wants her daughter to find someone of importance to make a better life for her. Julie wishes to follow her heart and inside she loves Kyle. Julie stands on her ground and explains she must make her own decisions in life even if they don’t follow her mothers plan. After being separated from each other for many months, they still feel a love for each other. On a book interview he reaches out to her on camera and when the two are joined again, will it be a business the two wish to engage in together always or will Julie decide her mother’s choice is better? Two lives, two different roles, yet hearts that are drawn together both sharing pain that sometimes has no cure as Kyle assures her that there is always more to life than moments of crisis.
Oregon Re-Released is a book that I believe will touch any reader. In a changing world filled with so much disturbing pain where a reply can not often be issued, this story has strong points that truly enlighten. The emotions vary as the characters each share a distress that neither can really understand without being in the others shoes. They can offer strength to one another but sometimes pain touches so deep that no one can take it away in any given situation. Julie and Kyle demonstrate that with love and commitment personal serenity can sometime be achieved. The two interesting characters give insight to a love and strength that many never share in life. The secondary characters insert elements to the story blending in more believability especially with the addition of Julie’s mother who insist on getting involved with her daughter’s life. This is a read that many will be able to relate.
Clay Renick composes a story around loss; suffering and severe pain that often has a misdiagnosis. There isn’t a day that goes by that a person doesn’t feel some sort of agony thrown into their daily living and some are more extreme than others. Even I connected in this moving read in more ways than one. Clay Renick shows how no matter what calamity circles around anyone, there is hope and love that can be shared when the right person is beside you lending much support. Days are few and hours short but no one should allow one minute to escape without doing what someone desires to do in life and this outstanding story demonstrates that a missed opportunity should never be overlooked. A wonderful read, a touching story and characters that will be remembered. This is a most touching read that stirs emotions. Be sure to get a copy today at: Romance at Heart Publications, and you will not be disappointed.
Sincerely good reading,
Linda
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