SURPRISE! My New Book is Out TODAY!
Hello everyone,
I hope you are all doing well!
My new book, Ten Kids, Two Lovebirds, and a Singing Mermaid is now available, only on Amazon.
If you would like a book that will, hopefully, make you laugh, you can click on this little link right here…
I so hope you like it! It’s a happy, hopeful story about two broken families who heal their hearts together with a lot of laughter and love.
Ten Kids, Two Lovebirds, and a Singing Mermaid was inspired by my wild, somewhat feral childhood on Deauville Drive, in Huntington Beach, California.
However, the two families are straight out of my imagination. As you know, I daydream a lot. Maybe too much.
Here’s a little more info…
Set on Deauville Drive in Huntington Beach, California in 1979, the O’Briens and Rossis become next door neighbors and life is never the same again.
July 2019
Jesse O’Brien receives the phone call she never wanted and never expected. Her frightened sister, Joyce, tells her, “She’s missing.”
June 1979
On the day Jesse’s mother’s marriage fell apart, her face was slathered in snow-white cold cream, everything but her mouth and small circles around her eyes covered. She wore a plastic cap to dye a few gray hairs snaking through her thick brown waves and a pink polyester housedress.
Annie O’Brien, usually calm and cheerful, is livid as her husband tells her he’s leaving her and their five children for a woman who looks like Barbie.
Stunned, Jesse follows her furious parents outside as her father loads his suitcases into his Alfa Romeo and her mother loads a pie into her hand and heaves it at her father then waters his face with a hose.
When the dust settles, the Alfa Romeo roaring down the street, the cold cream now mixed with cherry pie filling, the shattered O’Brien family meets the Rossi family who have just moved in next door: Tommy, a Vietnam vet who looks like a motorcycle gang leader; his sister, Liliana, who believes she’s a mermaid; and Tommy’s five kids.
They are mildly surprised at the family drama, but eager to get to know their exciting new neighbors.
Five kids plus five kids equals ten, and the adventures begin with an ending no one saw coming.
Ten Kids, Two Lovebirds, and a Singing Mermaid is a funny, sweet story about life changing pies and Slip ‘N Slides, swearing parrots and sunny days, and mending aching hearts…together.
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This is my first book in four and a half years. I took a break, and a breather, from writing, went back into education, and the break ended up being a little longer than expected.
I am delighted to be writing full time again, my brain crammed with characters talking/laughing/throwing pies/talking to parrots, etc.
Wishing you all well,
Cathy
