Kirsten Pursell
Kirsten Pursell is a best selling and award winning indie author known for engaging narratives that often blend romance with deeper emotional themes. Released in November 2024, The Scarlet D is her fifth novel. Her fourth book, Long Enough to Love You, earned numerous awards in women’s fiction, divorce fiction and romance and has been an Amazon best seller. Previous works include her memoir, On Becoming Me: Memoir of an 80’s Teenager, and two additional novels: Harvard and Company Clown. Her books have been downloaded over 15,000 times and have been #1 in select Amazon categories.
Outside of writing, she is an avid swimmer who enjoys training and competing in open water and pool events near and far. She is fluent in German, loves to channel her inner mermaid through SCUBA adventures, and will travel just about anywhere given the opportunity. Time with her now adult children is her favorite (a nonfat latte a strong second). She lives in Southern California.
Kirsten Pursell is a best selling and award winning indie author known for engaging narratives that often blend romance with deeper emotional themes. Released in November 2024, The Scarlet D is her fifth novel. Her fourth book, Long Enough to Love You, earned numerous awards in women’s fiction, divorce fiction and romance and has been an Amazon best seller. Previous works include her memoir, On Becoming Me: Memoir of an 80’s Teenager, and two...
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The Scarlet D
From award-winning author Kirsten Pursell, follow Scarlet as she navigates self-discovery, love, and friendship later in life in this coming-of-middle-age romance.
Firebird Book Awards Winner (2025): Divorce-Romance-Beach Reads
Book Excellence Award Finalist (2025)
Literary Titan Silver Book Award (2024)
Reader's Favorite 5 Stars (2024)
New love. Old...
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Long Enough to Love You
*Amazon Best Seller*
Firebird Book Awards First Place: Fiction, Divorce Fiction, and Romance (2024)
Book Excellence Winner - Divorce Fiction (2024)
The BookFest Second Place Award Contemporary Romance (Spring 2023)
A Literary Titan Gold Book Award Winner (2023)
Reader’s Favorite 5 Stars (2023)
Jenn, fifty-something and empty-nesting, feels like a...
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Harvard
Helena “Harvard” Schmitt could not leave her life on the mountain soon enough. A life of academic rigor at Harvard was made possible by her extraordinary athletic gift: running. Thor Himmel was the Harvard equivalent of a movie star: attractive, intelligent, and unattainable. As Helena and Thor run from their demons, their paths inevitably and...
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I am incredibly excited to announce that I have been recognized as a Book Excellence Award Finalist for my book, The Scarlet D, in the Divorce Category.
Out of thousands of books...
Having immersed herself in romantic possibilities promoted by Nicholas Sparks' novels, Scarlet abandons a thirty-year marriage and staid life to search for love and drama that...
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