To celebrate the release of Awakening Avery, Laurie is hosting a number of giveaways on her blog--who doesn't like a giveaway?Even more exciting is that THIS IS THE PLACE BOOKSTORE in DC (10335 Kensington Parkway, Kensington Maryland) is hosting a book launch for Awakening Avery, Saturday April 10, from 10am-5pm. With fabulous prizes every hour, this book launch will be the place to be!
“You’re depressed,” the doctor declared.
“Ya think?” is author Avery Elkins Thompson’s sarcastic response to the astute diagnosis for the malaise that set in following her husband’s untimely death. Avery’s carefully controlled world is imploding, and her adult children fear they are losing her too.
“You’re just a shadow of the person you used to be . . . We’d gladly give you up for a while if it meant getting you back.”
Avery can’t write, and questions about their father’s death leave the family mired in pain. “We need a healing place,” her oldest son tells her, suggesting she find it on Anna Maria Island, Florida, a former family vacation spot.
When Avery returns to Baltimore to sell the family’s waterfront condo, she meets rodeo-ers-turned-real-estate-brokers Teddie and Rider Davis, and Avery’s quiet life will never be the same again.
The Davises help arrange a short-term house swap with widower Gabriel Carson from Anna Maria, whose overprotective parenting has resulted in two self-centered, twenty-something daughters. Avery and Gabriel are in for the summer of their lives as they step into one another’s messy, complicated worlds.
Still, venturing out on her own again is challenging for Avery, whose experiences at the Ringling’s magnificent Cá d’Zan mansion, and with the quirky characters she meets there, eventually awaken her to truths she has long forgotten—that as crazy as life can be, it is possible to laugh and love again.
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