A Heartbeat Away

by Barbara Rogan

Meeting a mysterious doctor who strongly resembles someone who died sixteen years earlier, widowed ER housekeeper Crow Durango becomes an unlikely target of romance to chief physician Thomas Graystone. Reprint.

Genres: Fiction

304 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published May 1, 1993

About the author

Barbara Rogan is the author of eight novels, including SUSPICION and HINDSIGHT (Simon & Schuster). Her next novel, A DANGEROUS FICTION, is the first in a new mystery series set in the high-stakes world of big publishing. It will be published in July 2013 by Viking/Penguin.

Her books have been translated into a dozen languages, featured by the major book clubs, optioned for movie and television and issued as audio books and ebooks.

Barbara has also worked extensively in publishing. She started as an editor for a large New York publisher. After moving to Israel, she was the founder and, for 12 years, director of the Barbara Rogan Literary Agency. During that period, she served on the Board of Directors of the Jerusalem Book Fair.

After returning to the U.S., Barbara taught fiction writing at Hofstra University and SUNY. She currently teaches for Writers Digest University and in her own online school, Next Level Workshops. She's a frequent lecturer on both the business and craft of writing and teaches seminars and master classes at writers' conferences.

Reviews

[Digby · Rating 2 out of 5]

Somewhat dated.

[Donna · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderful story. Sucked me in and dragged me into the characters' lives without overdoing the sorrow and misery.