title: A Bright New Place: Triumph After Trauma
author: Fiona O'Branyll
description: Fiona O'Branyll is a survivor of childhood violence. She helps others take that difficult look back, then move forward in strength and joy. Fiona delights in being the mom of Logan and Emma, and celebrates life with abandon. Her bright new place is to live at peace with her past.
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  THE DARING TWIN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  DONNA FLETCHER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "I will wed Fiona. She will step forward”
  
  
  
  
  
  Aliss and Fiona glared at Tarr, neither making a move.
  
  Tarr folded his arms over his chest and circled the twins slowly. He lowered
  his arms and walked
  
  up to stand only inches from Fiona.
  
  She noticed that the warm color of his sun-drenched skin made the scar cutting
  through one
  
  eyebrow and another on his jawbone below his right cheek more prominent. His
  dark brows
  
  arched over eyes she had first thought black, but were a deep brown, with
  faint gold specks that
  
  were visible only when the fire's Tight caught them and turned them brilliant.
  
  He was, she decided, a handsomely compelling man.
  
  "Now that you have assessed me, what say we wed, Fiona?"
  
  She laughed in order that her shock at him guessing her identity would not
  show. She moved
  
  next to her sister so that they appeared mirror images of each other. "