Book excerpt: An Impossible Promise by Jude Deveraux and Tara Sheets

Book 2 in the Providence Falls Trilogy, is “An Impossible Promise” by Jude Deveraux and Tara Sheets, is a sweeping, epic love story that crosses continents and centuries. Author Deveraux and Sheets have teamed up to create a series in this women’s ficition and romance story. The premise revolves around a rogue thief in 1840s Ireland who is sent by angels to a small town in America to make amends for his crimes in the past. However, he is forbidden to tell anyone why he is there, and has to convince the woman he loves to marry another man or be damned to hell for all eternity.

With the woman he loves, she loved him in one century, and in another wants nothing to do with him. This second book of a trilogy tells the continuing story of Liam O’Connor and Cora McLeod, who were lovers in the past, and in the present do not have anything to do with each other. They’re both police officers and roommates in Providence Falls, North Carolina. Liam is trying to do what the angels commanded (have Cora fall in love with another man, although Cora is stubborn and strong-willed). During all of this, Liam must face hard truths about himself, firstly realizing that he isn’t the right one for Cora, although Cora is seeing him in a new light. Liam wants Cora all to himself, but with his choices dictating where his eternity is spent, he must choose.

Jude Deveraux has authored forty-three New York Times bestselling books, among those include “For All Time,” “Moonlight in the Morning,” and “A Knight in Shining Armor.” She has been awarded 2013’s Romantic Times Pioneer Award, and as of 2021, there are more than sixty million copies of her books in print worldwide. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri. Tara Sheets is also an award-winning author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction. Her work has awarded first place recognition in literary contests nationwide, and her debut novel, “Don’t Call Me Cupcake,” won the 2016 Golden Heart® award sponsored by Romance Writers of America. She lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.