Matters of the Heart
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Dr. Andrea Trapani would like to forget the past too. Being a full-time medical caretaker for a cantankerous woman is not where she expected her career to take her. But when Andrea sees that Darcyβs frustration will have serious medical consequences, she vows to bring peace and stability to Darcyβs world.
As two wounded souls fight to overcome their past and face the fears of the future, will love be the right medicine?
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Catherine Maiorisi lives in New York City and often writes under the watchful eye of Edgar Allan Poe, in Edgarβs CafΓ© near the apartment she shares with her partner, now wife, of thirty-eight years.
In the seventies and eighties while working in corporate technology then running her own technology consulting company, Catherine moaned to her artistic friends that she was the only lesbian in New York City who wasnβt creative, the only one without the imagination or the talent to write poetry or novels, play the guitar, act, or sing.
Since she found her imagination, writing has been like meditating for Catherine and it is what she most loves to do. But she also reads voraciously, loves to cook, especially Italian, and enjoys hanging out with her wife of thirty-nine years and friends.
When she wrote a short story to create the backstory for the love interest in her two unpublished NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli mysteries, Catherine had never read any romance and hadnβt considered writing it. To her surprise, βThe Fan Clubβ turned out to be a romance and was included in the Best Lesbian Romance of 2014 edited by Radclyffe.
Another surprise was hearing the voices of two characters, Andrea and Darcy, chatting in her head every night, making it difficult to sleep. Reassured by her wife that she wasnβt losing it, Catherine paid attention and those conversations led to her first romance novel, Matters of the Heart.
Catherine has also had two mystery short stories published in the Murder New York Style Anthologies, βJustice for Allβ in Fresh Slices and βMurder Italian Style" in Family Matters.
An active member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, Catherine is also a member of Romance Writers of America and Rainbow Romance Writers.
