Eva Carter

"What does it take to make a hero? Junior doctor Kerry Smith is addicted to rescuing others. Eighteen years ago, on the eve of the millennium, she saved the life of teenage footballer Joel Greenaway who 'died' for eighteen minutes. But life after death doesn't guarantee a happy ending"--

A Novel

How to Save a Life

Owner of a Lonely Heart

What are you most afraid of . . . ? Gemma is terrified of slowing down, because if she does, she’ll have to admit how lonely she’s felt since losing the love of her life. So she fills her days with work and taking her dog, Bear, to comfort young patients at the local hospital. That's enough, isn't it? Dan is scared of anyone getting to know the real him. He’s the life and soul of every party, but he’s certain that if people find out what he’s done, everything will fall apart. Casey is Dan’s twelve year old daughter – though they barely know each other. She’s starting four weeks of treatment for a benign tumour, and is scared this summer could be her last. When Gemma, Dan and Casey meet one scorching July, the connection is instant. Yet they’re all used to protecting themselves from heartbreak by keeping their distance. Now that fate – and a small, scruffy terrier – have brought them together, can they find the courage to connect? A story of bravery in all its guises, Eva Carter's Owner of A Lonely Heart is about taking the plunge even when it frightens you – because it's never too late to find the people who make your world make sense.

In this moving love story, three friends find out what it really means to save someone. “A heart-stopping, heart-wrenching, and heartwarming story that kept me reading well into the night.”—Clare Pooley, New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project Kerry Smith is going to save lives—and so is her best friend, Tim Palmer. After years of working toward medical school, they are about to take their entrance exams. But on the eve of the new millennium, a classmate goes into cardiac arrest, changing everything. For nearly eighteen minutes, rising soccer star Joel Greenaway is dead. For nearly eighteen minutes, Kerry performs CPR on her longtime crush. And for nearly eighteen minutes, Tim is too shocked to help. Though they don’t yet know it, those eighteen minutes will change the next eighteen years of their lives. Because, as it turns out, saving a life doesn’t always guarantee a happy ending. With his soccer career cut short, Joel lashes out and breaks Kerry’s heart by ending their burgeoning relationship with a cruelty that derails her future, while Tim struggles to reconcile his dream of becoming a doctor with the reality of failing to act. As each struggles to move on from the events of that fateful New Year’s Eve, their lives can’t seem to stop colliding year after year. Ensnared by their shared histories and her big heart, Kerry soon finds herself picking up the pieces after both broken men. But when Kerry is the one who needs saving, will anyone be there for her? As Kerry, Tim, and Joel discover what it means to love, to forgive, and to find your calling, How to Save a Life shows us that there is more than one way to save a life—and more than one path to finding meaning in your own.

From the author of How to Save a Life comes a heartfelt story of two people finding the courage to choose love, no matter how hard it may be. Gemma thought she had her future all mapped out—a wonderful husband, a cute apartment, plans to start a family. But just months after her wedding, illness took her husband from her. And now she’s trying to think up new dreams, when all she really wants are her old ones back. Across town, Dan’s also rethinking his life. He’s about to meet his twelve-year-old daughter, Casey, for the very first time. She’s tracked him down because she needs a place to stay for the summer while she receives treatment for a brain tumor at the city hospital, and Dan is terrified he won’t be up to the task of caring for her—after all, he's spent his entire life only having to look out for himself. But when fate—with the help of Gemma’s scruffy terrier, Bear—brings these three strangers together one hot July morning, cracks begin to appear in the walls they’ve each built to protect themselves. And soon it becomes clear that this summer could change everything. Will Gemma, Dan, and Casey be brave enough to let love in and build a new life together? Or will they let fear keep everything they’ve ever wanted just out of reach?

Joel’s heart stops as the rest of the world welcomes the start of a new century. What happens next will change the course of three people’s lives forever . . . It’s nearly midnight on the eve of the millennium when eighteen-year-old Joel’s heart stops. A school friend, Kerry, performs CPR for almost twenty exhausting minutes, ultimately saving Joel’s life, while her best friend Tim freezes, unable to help. That moment of life and death changes the course of all three lives over the next two decades: each time Kerry, Joel and Tim believe they’ve found love, discovered their vocation, or simply moved on, their lives collide again. Structured around the four simple steps involved in CPR, Eva Carter’s How to Save a Life is both a love story and an exploration of what it means to be brave – because bravery isn’t just about life or death decisions; it’s also about how to keep on living afterwards . . .

Kerry Smith vrea să salveze vieți - la fel și cel mai bun prieten al ei, Tim Palmer. După ani lungi în care au învățat ca să intre la Facultatea de Medicină, mai au puțin până la examenele de admitere. Dar în ajunul noului mileniu, un coleg de clasă intră în stop cardiac, schimbând totul. Timp de aproape optsprezece minute, Joel Greenaway, fotbalist în plină ascensiune, a fost mort. Timp de aproape optsprezece minute, Kerry i-a făcut masaj cardiac celui pe care îl iubește în secret. Și timp de aproape optsprezece minute, Tim a fost prea șocat pentru a-l ajuta. Și, deși nu știu încă, acele optsprezece minute vor schimba următorii optsprezece ani din viața lor. Pentru că, după cum se dovedește, salvarea unei vieți nu garantează întotdeauna un final fericit. Dar pe măsură ce Kerry, Tim și Joel descoperă ce înseamnă să iubești, să ierți și să-ți găsești chemarea, acest roman ne arată că există mai multe modalități de a salva o inimă - și mai multe căi de a-ți urma chemarea inimii. „Inimă salvată este un roman atât de bine conturat, o poveste de dragoste care curge frumos și este plină de curaj. Am fost prinsă încă de la prima pagină. Mi-a plăcut mult, merită toate stelele!“ Josie Silver „Inimă salvată este un roman care începe cu un eveniment extrem de viață și de moarte și care apoi urmează viețile a trei personaje complexe pentru a arăta cum acel moment a schimbat totul. Și acest roman te va schimba. Este extraordinar - într-adevăr o carte foarte, foarte specială.“ Julie Cohen

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