Loved - A Novel

Loved is an inspiring and poignant coming-of-age story as well as a moving portrait of the struggles that we all face as we grow up and find ourselves suddenly expected to have all the answers.

Kimberly Carlson is a quiet, optimistic dreamer when she trades in the golden fields of her youth for the busy big city streets of her future. She leaves behind a life of Sunday mass, good friends and homework for a world where skipping class, drinking, and friends who leave her alone on her birthday are the norm. On the road to building a career in the music industry and searching for true love, she instead finds loneliness, betrayal and heartache.

Just as she falls in love with the kind of man who would never break her heart and things are falling delightfully into place, everything is torn apart “like a shack in a hurricane.” Kimberly is faced with a choice: quit believing in the possibility of love and happiness, or fight for the woman she wants to be and the love she wants to have. Kimberly overcomes each setback with increasing grace and wisdom, proving that sometimes the wrong choices can lead us to the right places.