Portraits series (books 1-3) by J. B. Chicoine
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Overview:J. B. Chicoine was born on Long Island, New York, and grew up in Amityville during the 1960s and 70s. She has lived in New Hampshire, Kansas City and Michigan. She enjoys setting her stories in New England.
She has been writing stories since she was a girl, but didn’t complete a novel until she was nearly thirty. Since then, she has completed six more novels; UNCHARTED: Story for a Shipwright, SPILLED COFFEE, BLIND STITCHES and the Portraits Trilogy: PORTRAIT OF A GIRL RUNNING, PORTRAIT OF A PROTEGE, and PORTRAIT OF A GIRL ADRIFT.
J. B. Chicoine’s novels are character driven, (though she does love a plot twist). She writes good clean fiction but does not skimp on the complexities of relationships and character depth. Her writing does not contain graphic sex or violence, and her work has been described as positive and uplifting while exploring human foibles.
As a watercolor artist, people are one of her favorite subjects. She says that developing a character is so much like painting a portrait–adding layers as she goes–creating depth.
She also enjoys designing covers and binding her novels. She blogs about her painting and writing, and also has a Website–www.JBChicoine.com. When she’s not writing or painting, she enjoys volunteer work, baking crusty breads and working of various projects with her husband. Please feel free to contact her–she loves interacting with her readers.
Genre: Fiction > Romance
Portrait of a Girl Running
All Leila wants is to get through her senior year at her new high school without drawing undue attention. Not that she has any big secret to protect, but her unconventional upbringing has made her very private. At seventeen, she realizes just how odd it was that two men raised her—one black, one white—and no mother. Not to mention they were blues musicians, always on the move. When her father died, he left her with a fear of foster care and a plan that would help her fall between the cracks of the system. Three teachers make that impossible—the handsome track coach, her math teacher from hell, and a jealous gym instructor. Compromising situations, accusations of misconduct, and judicial hearings put Leila’s autonomy and even her dignity at risk, unless she learns to trust an unlikely ally.
Portrait of a Protégé
Four years after the close of Portrait of a Girl Running, Leila is twenty-two and living on a pretty little lake in New Hampshire. A new set of circumstances throws her into a repeating cycle of grief that twists and morphs into unexpected and powerful emotions. Leila must finally confront her fears and learn to let go while navigating the field of cutting-edge psychology, protecting herself from the capricious winds of Southern hospitality, playing in the backyard of big-money art, and taming her unruly heart. Even her ‘guardian’ has a thing or two he must learn about love and letting go.
Portrait of a Girl Adrift
Just when Leila thinks she has everything under control, her deepest insecurities resurface when she must confront her unresolved issues surrounding the mother who abandoned her as a baby, and the men who raised her. Not even Clarence Myles can show her the way, and so Leila embarks on a journey of self-discovery that sends her drifting from place to place in search of answers.
In the process of zigzagging her way between North and South, Leila encounters a series of intense psychological twists and turns that send her reeling, grappling with more questions about her identity. Embarking on a final quest for what it means to be ‘whole,’ Leila risks everything she knows about maintaining control; on a calculated whim, she boards a boat with a young woman who is everything Leila is not. While navigating her own heart, nothing could prepare Leila for the biggest truth she’s about to learn.
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