title: Karin's Story: My Journey Through The Wilderness
author: Karin Beck-Beggs
description: Karin Beck-Beggs was a model in the clothing industry, an agent-interpreter for Scandinavian Airlines, a secretary for her husband's construction business, real estate agent, a labor and delivery nurse, and a pharmaceutical protocol specialist. In March 2010, she was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma. A wife, mother, and grandmother, the cancer took her life in December 2011.
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  _**She turned him down. Twice.**_
  
  Karin Killigan refuses to marry Liam Bravo solely for the sake of their
  pending baby. This time, the widowed mother of two is holding out for true
  lasting love. And even though she is knee-deep in kids and family chaos, Karin
  and Liam’s attraction is hotter than ever, but Karin won’t settle. Liam will
  have to prove he’s in it for love if he wants a family for his baby’s first
  Christmas.
  
   _ **“I’ve missed you,” Liam said, “since you dumped me last March.”**_
  
  “I didn’t dump you. How could I dump you? We weren’t together.”
  
  “Yeah, we were. From that first night, I wasn’t with anyone but you. How about
  you?”
  
  “No. But you know what I mean. It wasn’t serious. We weren’t even dating.”
  
  “Karin.”
  
  “What?”
  
  “Shut up.” He stole a quick, perfect kiss. Her lips burned at the brief
  contact. She yearned—she really did. Every molecule in her body hungered for
  more.
  
  And he knew it, too.
  
  He knew it and he gave her exactly what she coul