Pocketful of Paradise (previously published as The Soul Collector)

by Maureen Child

Overview

Also published as The Soul Collector, which was produced as a movie on CBS TV…
Beautiful young widow Rebecca Hale is too busy caring for her young son and their Colorado ranch to admit to the loneliness that keeps her awake at night – until the arrival of a mysterious, dark-haired stranger with heavenly blue eyes. The cowboy has no horse, no last name… and no memory, or so he claims. He may not remember how to ride, but he certainly hasn’t forgotten how to kiss.
To teach him compassion for the people in his charge, Zacariah is sentenced to live one month as a human. As a Soul Collector, a being who escorts souls from earth to the afterlife, Zack insists it’s not his job to coddle the souls who light candles to keep him at bay.
But Rebecca is...different. She makes him feel true emotions for the first time. Shows him what life really is. Makes him wish that he could stay. Except, his month is running out. He'll have to leave soon and when he does, he will be taking a soul with him.
Whose? Rebecca's? Her son's?
No matter what happens, at the end of his month on earth, Zacariah faces an eternity without the woman who made him believe in love.
Originally published as A Pocketful of Paradise by Kathleen Kane.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015550740
Publisher:	Maureen Child
Publication date:	10/03/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	916 KB

About the Author

USA Today best selling author Maureen Child is the author of more than ninety romance novels and novellas. Maureen is a five time nominee for the prestigious Rita award from Romance Writers of America.

SOUL COLLECTOR, originally published as A POCKETFUL OF PARADISE, was made into a CBS-TV movie starring Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Greenwood and Ossie Davis.

Maureen was not only on the Texas set to watch her characters come to life in front of the cameras, she was also tossed into the last scene by her husband and the producer, who both thought this would be a fun way to humiliate an author!

When her kids were small, Maureen started writing as not only a way to stay sane, but in the hopes of finding a job she could do and stay at home with them. Sanity is still an issue, but she did manage to write her way into a career she wouldn’t trade for anything.

Over the years, she’s written under lots of different names and she prefers the term ‘pseudonym’ to ‘alias’. As Ann Carberry, she wrote western historical romances. As Kathleen Kane, she wrote not only Americana romances, but western paranormal romances as well. Many of her Ann Carberry and Kathleen Kane historical romances have seen new life as ebooks. As Sarah Hart, she wrote one really spectacular western paranormal that is still one of her favorites. And once, Ann Carberry even wrote a Victorian historical which she absolutely loved doing. Under her own name, Maureen writes short contemporary novels for Silhouette Desire—books she loves to write because of their fast pace and condensed storytelling.