Choices, and the Courage to Risk — Mary Jane Forbes

Gillianne Wilder, twenty-four, struggles to build a business and fulfill her dream of becoming a top fashion designer. She finds herself confronted by a blackmailer, who, unbeknownst to her, is also blackmailing her lover in Paris threatening to divulge the existence of their love child. Maxime Beaumont, lawyer, is on a smooth glidepath to winning a senate seat in the French Parliament. Skip Hunter, newspaper reporter, has long been in love with Gilly. A runner, he immerses his mind and body into training for the Seattle Marathon, trying to deal with his going-nowhere relationship with Gilly. Gillianne faces a fork in the road-two men, one woman, whose lives, passions, dreams are on a collision course. In choosing her future path, does she have the courage to take a risk?