Torn

Allison Michaels never thought she could do it--be as callous and devious as her sister. Three weeks ago, she set out on an adventure that promised to leave her debt-free with a stacked portfolio and references that would allow her to break into the graphic design world. All she had to do was help destroy a horrible man.With her tail between her legs, debt-free, and opportunities to work at numerous design firms, Allison is running home heartbroken and with guilt comparable to her student loan debt. Allison is determined to start over. Now that Bryant knows what she has done she can never see him again. She never knew freedom would come with such a high cost to her dignity, values, and her very soul. Time would heal the wounds she caused herself as long as she could learn to forget him.However, when the police threaten to put a warrant out for her arrest, she begins to understand she never had a chance at freedom, as she just traded one prison for another. Not only do the police want to question her further, but now Martin Kirklen wants revenge and her hide. Before she makes it out the door and back to Chicago, Bryant shows up on her doorstep. With his beautifully masculine essence glaring down at her, Allison knows she will never be free.Torn is the final book in the Taste of Freedom Trilogy. The birth of Kate Oleander happened on a whim, a chance, and a forgotten dream. One day and several hours later the obsession took root deep in an elementary school teacher on a lazy summer afternoon. At the time the writer was nameless, and over the span of a week the pen name Kate Oleander became an alias to embrace and cherish. She breathes life into imaginary scenes, ideas, and characters bursting from a suppressed imagination. Many of the entities finding life on the pages of the novels have rattled around Kate's mind for decades.When not writing, Kate is a middle school teacher in the Midwest. She and her husband have four children and three dogs.Kate's favorite genres to write are paranormal romance and fantasy romance, but contemporary romances with suspense, danger, and a wicked antagonist are a close third to the others. All of her stories entertain the growth of a strong-willed female finding happiness and love at last while staying true to herself and fighting even when she thinks she has nothing left.Sometimes the most beautiful things arise out of the ashes of destruction, and Kate Oleander enjoys lighting the match. Debt-free, a dream job with adventure but one catch: destroy a bad man. It is worth the risk until Allie meets Bryant, a love she did not expect.All Allison Michaels ever wanted was to become a graphic designer, be like her big sister, and find the love of her life. But buried under mounds of student loan debt, working two dead-end jobs, she has no time for a social life. As things stand, she can't see how any of her dreams will ever come true. That is until an opportunity of a lifetime lands on her doorstep.Tempted by the seductive promise of being debt-free, walking in her sister's footsteps, and living it up in Chicago, small town girl, Allie takes a chance. If she is successful, she will be debt-free, and have real-world references from a big-time graphic design firm. It is a win-win-win situation. All she has to do is ruin a man. A very bad man.Finding the love of her life can wait, or can it?