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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:05:19 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>BOOKS</title><subtitle>BOOKS</subtitle><id>http://julielessman.com/books/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://julielessman.com/books/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://julielessman.com/books/atom.xml"/><updated>2008-06-12T23:19:02Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>The Daughters of Boston Series</title><id>http://julielessman.com/books/2007/9/12/the-daughters-of-boston-series.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://julielessman.com/books/2007/9/12/the-daughters-of-boston-series.html"/><author><name>Julie Lessman</name></author><published>2007-09-12T15:52:02Z</published><updated>2007-09-12T15:52:02Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<img src="http://julielessman.com/storage/Lessman_final-cover-2.jpg" style="width: 363px; height: 563px;" /> <p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Book 1</strong> (January 2008)&nbsp; </p><p>Publisher: Fleming H. Revell, Baker Publishing Group<br /></p><p><em>A Passion Most Pure&nbsp;</em></p><p><strong>She's found the love of her life. Unfortunately, he loves her sister ...<br /> </strong></p><p>As World War I rages across the Atlantic in 1916, a smaller war is brewing in Boston. Faith O&rsquo;Connor finds herself drawn to an Irish rogue who is anything but right for her.&nbsp; Collin McGuire is brash, cocky, and from the wrong side of the tracks, not to mention forbidden by her father.&nbsp; And then there&rsquo;s the small matter that he is secretly courting her younger sister.&nbsp; But when Collin&rsquo;s affections suddenly shift her way, it threatens to tear Faith's proper Boston family apart.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span class="full-image-float-left"><img src="http://julielessman.com/storage/PassionRedeemed_3-2FrontSpine%20low%20res.jpg" alt="PassionRedeemed_3-2FrontSpine%20low%20res.jpg" /></span>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Book 2 </strong>(Coming&nbsp;Fall 2008)<br />Publisher: Fleming H. Revell, Baker Publishing Group<br /><em>A Passion Redeemed</em></p><p>Book 2 &nbsp;is Charity's story,&nbsp;a woman who puts her faith in her beauty rather than in God.&nbsp; It is a story of redemption and faith rising from the ashes of temptation, desire and shame. </p><p>Depth of beauty &hellip;&nbsp; shallow of heart, Charity O&rsquo;Connor is a woman who gets what she wants.&nbsp; She sets her sights on a man who wants nothing to do with her.&nbsp; Although the sparks are there,&nbsp; he refuses to fan the coals of a potential relationship with a woman who ruined his life.&nbsp; Charity burned him once, destroying his engagement to the only woman he ever truly loved. He won&rsquo;t play with matches again. But Charity has a plan to turn up the heat, hoping to ignite the heart of the man she loves. And she always gets what she wants&mdash;one way or another.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Book 3 </strong>(Coming&nbsp;Spring 2009)</p><p>Book 3,&nbsp; working title <em>A Passion Denied</em>,&nbsp; is the story of Faith and Charity&rsquo;s little sister, Lizzie, a shy bookworm who dreams of a fairy-tale romance.&nbsp; It unfolds a man&rsquo;s dark past and a young girl&rsquo;s shattered dreams &hellip; and the God who redeems it all. </p><p>Elizabeth O&rsquo;Connor is the little sister John always longed for. With a fire for God in his belly, he has been her spiritual mentor since she was thirteen, sharing her love of literature and her thirst for God.&nbsp; But when his gangly prot&eacute;g&eacute; blossoms into a beautiful young woman bent on loving him,&nbsp; he refuses to act on the attraction he feels.&nbsp; His past won&rsquo;t let him go there.&nbsp; Unfortunately, &ldquo;Lizzie&rdquo; won&rsquo;t let him go anywhere else &hellip; until his dark and shocking secrets push her away.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>]]></content></entry></feed>