Until she hit her head in a swimming accident, and obtained irreversible brain damage in the process. Five years ago, Laura had a great life: an exciting career, a boyfriend, and lots of friends. In this heartwarming story, Laura Townsend is the unsuspecting heroine who will find love in a very unlikely place. Catherine Anderson has made this kind of story her stock and trade, and she truly does it well. Like the sun comes up after a dark night, so love comes into the hearts of those who thought that they had no chance at being loved. Catherine and her stateside family will celebrate Christmas on the north island with Sidney, his wife Mary, and their two sons, Liam and Jonas. Her older son has lived in Japan, Australia, and now resides in New Zealand. She presently has two Australian shepherds, six cats, and a very old canary. She has kept Cinnamon Ridge as her primary residence but divides her time between there and her son John's farm, where she has the support of her loved ones and can enjoy his horses, cows, and raise her own chickens.Ĭatherine loves animals and birds, both wild and domestic. Sadly, Catherine lost her husband to a long-term illness in 2014. She named it Cinnamon Ridge after the huge ponderosa pines on the property, which sport bark the color of cinnamon.

It was her dream home, a wonderland in the winter and beyond beautiful in the summer. In 2001 she and her husband purchased a central Oregon home located on a ridge with incredible mountain views and surrounded by forestland honeycombed with trails. Anderson, an industrial electrician and entrepreneur. Nine books later, she did her first single-title contemporary.Ĭatherine married Sidney D. In 1988, she sold her first book to Harlequin Intrigue and went on to write three more before she tried her hand at a single-title historical romance. The morning that one of her professors asked if she could use samples of Catherine’s creative writing on an overhead projector to teach was a dream come true. She always yearned to be a writer like her mother. See this thread for more information.Īdeline Catherine was born and raised in Grants Pass, Oregon, USA. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

My Sunshine by Catherine Anderson