Based on the poem - On Finding Someone by Joel Nelson
Fate has her wicked way in this compelling trilogy set in modern day Texas. Encompassing strong family bonds within a powerful, yet light hearted romantic saga, from the first lost note and missed telephone call Evan and Ginny fight against the odds to find their own little piece of heaven. Seemingly influenced by an old arrowhead and the sweet scent of jasmine, their lives swirl within a whirlwind of laughter and heartbreak as they rush headlong towards their destiny.
The second book finds Ben - Ginny and Evan’s son – following in his father footsteps as he turns twenty-one. Brought up by his Aunt Charlotte and her son - JD - on Creek Ranch and haunted since birth by the scent of jasmine, Ben feels something is missing from his life. History begins to repeat itself when Jeannie, inextricably linked by a strange quirk of fate to the doomed Adams clan, meets Ben on his birthday. Love is the result - but like father, like son - serendipity has a few tricks up her sleeve.
The third book awakens the arrowhead - after eighteen years - to the present as the young girl, Jodie's, birthday approaches, it sets events in motion, which pull on Ben’s heartstrings. Across country, the jasmine blooms and its scent drifts on the breeze in search of his soul. When a glimpse of the past gives fate a nudge, Ben yet again, finds himself chasing the fragments of a dream. The final book in the series sees the conclusion to generations of fated Adams boys who hope that happiness lies in their destiny, which waits just around the corner, over the hill...
The fourth book begins the second trilogy and time has passed yet the arrowhead remains buried beneath the jasmine vine, until the spring rains thirty years later. Rodeo fever is the backdrop to the latest seductive tale of the fated Adams family and Evan Jnr is following in the trail of his ancestors. His craving to re-kindle the one night of ecstasy drives him to the brink of insanity as jasmine scented Georgie seeps into his soul. However, fate is up to its old tricks, determined to push the lovers to the edge of endurance. Malevolent undertones threaten to destroy the tempestuous yet endearing affair of another doomed Adams boy whose only hope is that happiness lies in his destiny, which waits just around the corner, over the hill...
Book five begings shortly before the twins’ ninth birthday when the jasmine vine erupts from the earth, bringing disruption to the peaceful life at Jasmina. Across country, the arrowhead awakens, and passion runs rife when Evan and Georgie attempt to rekindle their love. Life’s usual quirks complicate the situation for Georgie who now has two boisterous boys in tow, and along with Tom Johnson’s latest scheme to throw the Adams family into a whirlwind of confusion, nothing is ever as simple as it seems. Continuing in the family tradition, intriguing twists and turns, the usual lost phones and breathless encounters form the backdrop to the fifth book in the continuation of this delightfully frustrating family saga, where the men, seeking no more than their little piece of heaven, hope that love is waiting just around the corner, over the hill…
Scented Heaven - Book 6
Eleven years had passed and the sleeper remained out of reach, however, eyelids fluttered as the new occupants, stepping beneath the withered vine, set the wheels of destiny in motion.
This was his twenty-first year, and apart from disturbing dreams of late, which he put down to too much work, drink, and too many women, life was good. Simple pleasures were all he required, and certain that he had a few more years of fun left before he met the perfect girl, marry, settle down and have a gaggle of rug rats, Josh breezed through life without a care in the world.
Fate though had other plans as the tendrils of change curled beneath the door of the old cupboard. Housing memories of past generations, it unsettled the dust and disturbed the cobwebs, which mostly remained untouched by human hand. Few ventured into the dark hole in the center of the ranch where the red box, now a mere memory, silently waited for his coming of age.
Serendipity called as the arrowhead awakened a new love, which waited just around the corner, over the hill…