Angeline M. Bishop

North StarBook One of the Sheridan SeriesCaresse Aldana has already survived one marriage that nearly cost her everything. She isn't looking for another. But when her job puts her across the table from Graham Sheridan, the magnetic, maddeningly charming editor-in-chief of Psyche magazine, business starts to feel like something else entirely, and her heart, guarded for eight hard-won years, begins letting him in one careful inch at a time.
Graham has never met a woman he couldn't manage. Then he meets a woman who won't let him. Caresse doesn't need rescuing. She needs a man who shows up, tells the truth, and chooses her again on the ordinary days, not just the beautiful ones. Whether Graham can become that man, before his own fear costs him everything Caresse has already survived once, is the real question at the heart of this story.
Then someone starts targeting the Mason Community Center, the place that saved Caresse's family when her marriage nearly destroyed it, and the danger closing in threatens to take away the one thing she trusted to stay standing when nothing else did. This edition has been newly revised and expanded, deepening the Sheridan family's story with richer emotional interiority, a fuller cast, and the kind of hard-won grace longtime readers will feel right away, and new readers will fall into completely.
North Star is a story about the courage it takes to love again after loss, the family you choose alongside the family you're born into, and a faith that doesn't erase fear but sits with you inside it. Rich with Black love, sharp with Southern warmth, and honest about what grace actually costs, this is the first book in the Sheridan Series, a family saga readers won't want to leave behind.