Welcome to

her eyes

were

on india

Emily’s cat became her best friend … Until she made a friend halfway around the world. With Rishat as a pen pal, a relationship grew from letters and messages, between two women who began to find emotional love that burned deeply in their soul.

about the

author

Mary Ann Parfitt

Born and raised in Greensburg, Pa., Mary Ann married young and divorced at age 30. As a single mom, she raised 3 kids while working part-time jobs and attending business school.

Working her way up, she built her career with AAA and retired after 30 years. A few months later she published her 1st book, Starting Over Single. Since then, she has published 2 more books. Her dream is to write a best-selling novel.

Mary Ann is involved in many social groups, co-organizing hiking, and women’s groups. She volunteers when she can help out in her local community. She loves photography, painting pictures of flowers, and traveling. Her passion is reading and writing.

She loves her family and spends time with her grandchildren often.

about the book

But Rishat has a husband and a daughter to be concerned about. Would leaving them to start a new life in America be a good decision? Making this decision would be the hardest of her life

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Acknowledgment

Though the story and characters are fictional, made up in my own mind, I received information about the language, culture, and area of India from her. Some of the conversations in this book are based on actual conversations we had during our email communication but are significantly altered to fit the storyline. This story is fiction. Thank you, my friend,  for your contribution to this book and to my life. You are a beautiful soul.

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