LAUNCHED!

In Common, my novel of (excessive) love and (undeserved) sacrifice is out.

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Briefly,

Lillian Creekmore grows up at her family’s popular rural spa. She successfully runs an entire hotel, yet longs for a husband. Then she meets Will Hughes. Velma Vernon accepts life on a small, struggling farm until a boy she barely tolerates proposes marriage. To accept means duplicating her parents’ hard life. Alone, she leaves for the city and triumphs, not as a wife, but by being best at her job. Velma is content until the most beautiful man she has ever seen walks into her office. This moving and darkly humorous novel follows the intertwined lives of women willing to surrender everything to a man more in love with success than any female.

“… the great American novel, only this time it’s from the woman’s point of view, and this time it’s set in the South. The dexterity of plot and insights into character are matched by language that surprises and delights … a significant literary achievement.” –Michael Hettich, The Mica Mine; To Start an Orchard