A Storm Rising

A Storm Rising is the eleventh book by Roseanne Bennett. Keely O’Brien is a highly skilled Nurse Practitioner who works for the US Army. She is also running away from a devastating loss. Only her pretty white boxer, Lily, and her friends, Molly, and Molly’s Gran, have been able to keep Keely from disappearing into her own grief over the last few years. She is unaware of the reality that she has created a world that is devoid of color and depth for herself, but her soul knows…and it will resist that end on her behalf. Her greatest place of healing has been at Gran’s beach home.
Cullen Hawke is a renowned journalist who covers wars, poverty, famine, and the results of natural disasters all over the world. He too is working to avoid his own demons from the things he’s seen. His one source of escape is the annual family gathering at the home of Molly’s Gran on Folly Beach, South Carolina. Events collide that force Keely and Cullen to be alone at the beach, and to face the storm of the century together. They make it through the fierce storm…both changed in important ways, but neither able to embrace those changes. They part, and attempt to resume their lives…but those changes press against the routines of safety. Keely joins Molly on a medical mission at the Texas border and soon finds an even more deadly storm rising. That storm isn’t made of nature, but rather greed and hatred. If they can survive it, the storm will give both of them what they have been seeking and needing.