About the Author

PATRICIA VIDO
Elevating the everyday.*

Pat honed her writing and editing skills on the staffs of newspapers in western Pennsylvania—always most interested in examining and trying to explain why people do what they do. She earned awards for writing and editing from three Pennsylvania press associations.

A married mother of adult twin daughters, she loves quirky independent films, playing mahjongg, and rooting for the Baltimore Ravens and Orioles from her home in Owings Mills, Maryland.

She’s a member of the Maryland Writers Association.

*Making the ordinary meaningful.

These works are as yet unpublished

MANUSCRIPTS

The Novel

FOR LOVE OF BILLIE

When twelve-year-old Finn Maguire is smitten by the beautiful Billie, his dad’s twenty-five-year-old co-worker and subsequent lover, he’s thrust into a rivalry with the father he idolizes until a tragedy on his thirteenth birthday cuts him off from Billie.

At nineteen, unmoored by his mother’s cancer diagnosis, Finn seeks consolation with Billie convinced she’s been waiting for him. Tempted, will he consummate the relationship that’s preoccupied him for years or overcome his obsession and choose true love with an age-appropriate partner?

The Sequel

FINN AT FORTY

What do you do when “the one who got away” comes back into your life?

In FINN AT FORTY—a work in progress—Finn Maguire begins what he believes is a harmless long-distance online and phone flirtation with his college freshman-year girlfriend.

But when he must invite the now world-renowned photographer Cassie Pierce Prescott to an exhibition and reception at his alma mater, her presence threatens his marriage and family. Tempted to rekindle his relationship with Cassie, will Finn resist or be unfaithful like his dad?

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