What happens when an unlikely friendship turns to something more? This Special Edition of Becoming Emma includes two previously published, connected short stories, The Secret Well and The Christmas Visitor!
Dublin girl Emma Carey has just embarked on another fresh start—the job of her dreams at Ireland Place, a quirky Irish arts center in a picturesque Victorian mansion near Seattle. At thirty-one, sweet, plucky Emma is finally poised for career success…if she can only avoid her fatal flaw—the one that's ruined every other job: falling for her boss.
A dedicated family man, Declan O'Donoghue is an Irish dad devoted to his children, the lights of his life. But as the new manager at Ireland Place, he could never have guessed his earnest, endearing colleague could take his breath away. Yet he and Emma can never be more than friends...
Hazel Carey has always been protective of her elder sister Emma—at twenty, she's the practical one, while Emma is a dreamer. Yet seeing her sister's heart-melting fancy for her new boss, Hazel wonders: how to keep Emma from real heartbreak this time?
With humor and tenderness, Becoming Emma continues Emma's romantic journey from America and back to Ireland...toward her own happily-ever-after. The two novelette-length short stories, The Secret Well and The Christmas Visitor, link Emma, Declan and Hazel to the quaint little village of Ballydara, and bring you deeper into Declan's and Hazel's lives and relationships.This heartfelt, charming page-turner, the 2nd of Emma's trilogy, is part of Susan Colleen Browne's Village of Ballydara series, set in a cozy Irish village in the West of Ireland!
Watch for the next novel featuring Emma and Declan, The Fairy Cottage of Ballydara—to be released in 2022!
About the Author:
Susan Colleen Browne weaves her love of Ireland and her passion for country living into her Village of Ballydara series and Fairy Cottage Mini-series, novels and stories of love, friendship and family set in the Irish countryside. She's also the author of an award-winning memoir, Little Farm in the Foothills, and a sequel, Little Farm Homegrown: A Memoir of Food-Growing, Midlife, and Self-Reliance on a Small Homestead.
Susan runs a little homestead with her husband in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Her latest Little Farm book is a gardening booklet: Little Farm in the Garden: A Practical Mini-Guide to Raising Selected Fruits and Vegetables Homestead-Style.
When Susan isn't wrangling hens or tending vegetable beds, she's working on her next Irish book or gardening memoir!
