Donna K. Weaver’s “Torn
Canvas”
Great, complex characters, and tension-driving story
elements, make author Donna K. Weaver’s “Torn Canvas” a sweeping novel readers
can get lost in.
Olivia Howard, a media celebrity, overcame a challenging past
to get where she is, and she now wants to use her platform to present stories
with substance. But what have her producers assigned her? A fluff piece about up
and coming models—frivolous lightweights. Especially the blonde, Finnish-born
Juri Virtanen, a Viking-handsome adonis with a reputation for using his cover
model looks to lure women. Lots of women.
But after studying Juri’s headshot, Olivia senses a
vulnerability in his eyes, a theory that is strengthened when she gets a tip that
Juri risked his own life to pull a mother and child from a car in the path of an
oncoming train. Juri becomes the story she most wants to tell.
Juri’s self-loathing has its roots in his dark past, leaving
him a calloused rogue unable to build relationships. His conscience gets stirred
when a group of cruise ship friends, real people, adopt him into their loving circle.
When the group goes off on an excursion, pirates take over their catamaran, kidnapping
some, and killing others. In the ensuing battle to overpower one of the captors,
Juri’s face, the source of his career and infamy, is badly damaged.
The catastrophic experience tears lives apart, cements friendships,
and places an interview with Juri at the top of Olivia Howard’s must-do list. The
support his new friends offer him rips a crack in Juri’s cold heart, allowing personal
healing and growth to occur at time when his professional life is in tatters.
“Torn Canvas” explores what matters. It’s a great story of
the power of friendship, and how kindness and love can give a person the
courage to rebuild a life from the tatters of the past.
Available on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Torn-Canvas-Safe-Harbors-2/dp/0989992845/
Thank you for your kind words. I <3 Jori's story so much.
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