Mattie Rose

Mattie Rose Tomlinson 43 (MR), PhD, and head of the Business Department at Ft. Lewis College in Durango, CO and owner of four vehicle dealerships in Montrose, CO she recently inherited from her father. A Joan Fontaine look-alike without her glasses, she lives alone in the small (pop. 436) mountain town of Sierra Bend, CO in the grand old family home. She is an exceedingly bright, most extraordinary woman who is in the process of selling her businesses and leaving academia to study for the Episcopal priesthood.

MATTIE ROSE Mattie Rose Tomlinson 43 (MR), PhD, and head of the Business Department at Ft. Lewis College in Durango, CO and owner of four vehicle dealerships in Montrose, CO she recently inherited from her father. A Joan Fontaine look-alike without her glasses, she lives alone in the small (pop. 436) mountain town of Sierra Bend, CO in the grand old family home. She is an exceedingly bright, most extraordinary woman who is in the process of selling her businesses and leaving academia to study for the Episcopal priesthood. Jack McKenna 49 (JM), an agnostic, is a very successful Management Consultant to Fortune-45 companies, who has just sold his private practice for $12.1 million that will be stolen by his best friend and CPA and lost forever in the fatal crash of the accountant’s private aircraft. Driving a new Jaguar in a raging blizzard, JM wrecks and is injured resulting in amnesia. On her way home, MR finds a comatose JM freezing to death by the roadside, saves him, gives him the new name of Ed Davis, and they fall in love and marry. On a trip to Denver, JM happens into an old business friend. The encounter results in his memory returning, but he has no recollection of MR who goes to work for him under the assumed name of Karen Ripley (KR). They conceive two major businesses: he the WHAT, she the HOW. Returning to the office after hours one evening, MR-KR discovers JM in the conference room with a woman. Stunned, hurt, and angry, she leaves and JM cannot find her, even with the help of private investigators. While he cannot understand his incessant preoccupation with Karen, he finally understands that he loves her. It is during the agony of not being able to find her, that he finds Christ. Two months later, JM receives a call from a deputy sheriff in Sierra Bend telling him his stolen Jaguar has been found. Even though a storm is gathering, JM has an inexplicable urge to immediately retrieve his car and hires a private plane to fly him to Montrose where the deputy sheriff meets his plane and drives him to Sierra Bend. On the way back to Montrose, instead of staying on the highway JM mysteriously turns down MR's street is not understanding why when he suddenly he is compelled stop in front of a large two-story red brick house where he finds and remembers MR. In an epilogue, we share their newly discovered deep love and their plans for the future.