Author: A E Woodward

A E Woodward writes contemporary romance centred on grief, family ties, and emotional recovery. Kismet opens the Kismet series with Katie returning to her childhood home, a horse farm where her family rehabilitates animals. She has withdrawn from others after losing her husband, daughter, and unborn child, and the familiar landscape becomes part of her slow attempt to reconnect with life. Parker McKenzie, her brother’s longtime friend, also returns to her world, bringing unresolved history and difficult questions about guilt. Book records identify Kismet as the first series volume and place its original publication in 2013. Woodward structures the novel around Katie’s interior struggle rather than a rapid change of fortune: healing develops through family presence, work with horses, and choices about trust. The result is an emotionally focused relationship story in which the title’s idea of fate is tested against responsibility, secrecy, and the possibility of beginning again after profound loss.