Until It Fades: A Novel

Until It Fades: A Novel

<b>€œTouching and complex€¦Tucker unerringly hits all the high notes of romance€"the spark, the emotional depth, the mental and physical struggles€"while creating a couple who seem perfectly attuned even when they are in conflict.€ €"<i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred review)</b><br><br>Twenty-four-year-old truck stop waitress and single mother Catherine Wright has simple goals: to give her five-year-old daughter a happy life and to never again be the talk of the town in Balsam, Pennsylvania (population three thousand outside of tourist season). <br> <br>And then one foggy night, on a lonely road back from another failed date, Catherine saves a man€s life. It isn€t until after the police have arrived that Catherine realizes exactly who it is she has rescued: Brett Madden, hockey icon and media darling.<br> <br>Catherine has already had her fifteen minutes of fame and the last thing she wants is to have her past dragged back into the spotlight, only this time on a national stage. So she hides her identity. It works. For a time.<br> <br>But when she finds the man she saved standing on her doorstep, desperate to thank her, all that changes. There€s an immediate connection, and it€s more electric than the bond of two people who endured a traumatic event. It€s something neither of them expected. Something that Catherine isn€t sure she can handle; something she is afraid to trust.<br> <br>Because how long can an extraordinary man like Brett be interested in an ordinary woman like Catherine...before the spark fades?