The Choice Between Safe and Brave (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781917778145)

When the woman you love is ripped from your life without warning, how do you pick up the pieces if you think it's all your fault?

Chris Darcy is a mountaineer on a mission to scale the world's summits, but when his world is shattered on a climbing trip with his fiancée Daisy, he is crippled by guilt, and dealing with demons that have plagued him all his life. Bereft and broken, he goes back to Teapot Cottage, where he'd been once before, with Daisy.

Tezzie Bostock is finally home from travelling. She is reeling from a badly broken heart and reluctantly drifting towards a career she doesn't want. When epiphany strikes, she decides to do something different. She knows she has to regain her self-esteem to make it happen, but she doesn't know where to start.

As Chris and Tezzie's lives intersect, they realize they've met before. Reeling from heartbreak of different kinds, they forge a solid friendship, and form an alliance that helps to push them both forward, towards an exciting future.

But even as they find themselves edging towards romance, Tezzie has plans to be somewhere else, where her own life will be at risk. Can Chris even contemplate losing another love? Can Tezzie make a compromise that can still let her have her chosen career? Or is it all too much of a challenge for two lost souls who seem to want different things?

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