6x9 PAPERBACK EDITION: With zero hours towards her Senior Project, Sadey Leach is on the brink of failing. In a dreaded meeting with her teachers, Sadey learns that she is sentenced to twenty-four hours of volunteer work at Forest Hills Convalescent Center, the last place she swore she'd ever go...until she meets 78-year-old Minnie, the only person with the ability to see beneath her rough exterior.
Follow the characters as their lives unfold with tales of dark pasts that hold the power to break spirits and the uncertainty of the future, whispering of death and rebirth.
PRAISE FOR MINNIE: “Like chocolate in book form...it’s got feeling, it’s got depth. It deserves attention.” A. Granger; “This is a classic in the making. It has heart and intelligence.” M. Tyson
"Minnie" Your presentation is really well done. I like your opening line about the spicy food and the Pepto-Bismal, which reminds me of the some of the teachers I had in high school! Your writing is better than some of the books I've seen at my bookstore; it reads like you've honed your skills some time before publishing your work. Definitely is the sort of story that could be a word-of-mouth seller. Good luck with your book! Erik J. Kreffel
"great stuff" The first chapter is a good way of both setting up story and enabling the meeting of the two main characters, which promotes anticipation from the very beginning how interesting this relationship is going to be...two troubled minds, living unsatisfactory lives coming together from opposite ends of a life span. I instantly liked Minnie, understanding her loneliness and feeling of invisibility, which is so common the older we get, and though we may empathise with Sadey's life, there is a current of strength that runs deep. A great, 'character based' story. Julie Elizabeth Powell, author of Gone
It's great! I've finally finished the whole book (well, a couple of days ago) and I have to say it made me cry. More unusually, it wasn't from bad grammar that it made me cry, but through the incredible emotional journey it took me on. As I said to Ashley when I read the preview, it reads like chocolate, and you would be seriously missing out if you didn't buy it.
"Awesome Book!" The book is great! The characters are engaging and there are some surprises that catch you off-guard. I really enjoyed how the main character rose above her circumstances. I cried at the end!
