SOUTHERN BLEND is a new kind of romance about two brokenhearts struggling to bring their life, families and dreams together. RachelAllan was perfectly content with her life. She was a hard working, singlemom who was healing from her divorce and raising her three daughterswhen she met the man who would change her smallcountry-girl-world forever. Troy Keyton is America's number one countrystar and also raising three daughters by himself after the death ofhis wife/business manager. Rachel and Troy are introduced by mutualfriends and drawn together through the healing work Rachel does in thelives of children and families. After meeting the famous country singer,Rachel's life became a surreal blend of the impossible and reality. Hernew relationship blooms with love, life struggles, and healing as shehas to decide where she wants to go and what she must overcome to getthere. SOUTHERN BLEND is the story of Troy and Rachel, theirmeeting, their struggles in bringing their lives and families together. Itincludes many of their firsts, from first dates to first kiss, their weddingand their first year together. It also lays the groundwork for the deeperstory of how they both overcome their own childhood abuse and go onto adopt two boys who have been also been abused. FROM THE INSIDEOUT is a stand alone story that will explore the inner world ofhurt children and the adults who live to help them.