Eve Moore leaves her abusive husband and falls in love with Paul Connors. The problem is that they live 300 miles apart.
Eve Moore becomes a volunteer at a neighborhood hospital. Here she meets Patrick O'Malley who be comes a friend.
He helps her leave her abusive husband.
Patrick moves to Quincy, IL, a town 300 miles away. He has throat cancer. Eve calls him regularly and tells him about her new life as a registered nurse.
She travels to Quincy to see Patrick when she isw told be his friend, PAul Connors, that Patrick is dying.
She and Paul are immediately attracted to each other. Patrick dies of his cancer and Eve and Paul begin a relationship that lasts many years. She travels to Quincy to see him and he, in turn, travels to Chicago, where Eve lives.
The story takes them to the end of their lives.
Excerpt
I knew my marriage was over the night Samuel killed Skip.Strange how he loved that dog, with an affection I never saw directed toward me or the children.It was abnormal, as if everything lacking in his life was embedded in the animal.
Skip went everywhere with him, to the construction site where he checked on the progress of a structure his company was building, to the liquor store, where the dog sat proudly guarding the car for his master, and at the side of the bed where Samuel slept.My husbands hand would reach down his hand and stroke the dog as he had once caressed me. Those days were a distant memory now, as if they had happened in a different time and place.
Professional Reviews
By Jeff Biggers, author of Reckoning at Eagle Rifge
Withe the endearing voice of a master storyteller, Helen Osterman has fashioned one of the most unforgettable love stories in years. From its gripping opening pages, Song of the Rails sends the indefatigable Eve Moore on a search for a second life of redemption, friendship, and true love. At once heartbreaking and full of unbridled joy, this powerful novel is a rare inter-generational journey of friends and lovers in the final seasons of their lives.
Zara’s Bois:
When the powers-that-be make the decision to return a selfish party-girl to Earth on three missions of redemption, can romance and mayhem be far behind? One hot and trendy gay nightclub, two bickering angels and three unlikely p
