BLURB:
Bad luck and worse
choices—that’s Irene. She’s been a widow half her life and now splits her time
between waitressing at the Rise and Shine café and singing in an oldies cover
band. And she’s having an affair with a married man—something that even her
eclectic, super liberal family can’t condone.
She’d be the first one to admit she has faults, but she’s not a bigot. The genetic pool in her nuclear family spans the globe. And it’s not that she’s prejudiced against people with disabilities but that doctors and wheelchairs give her the heebie-jeebies. So when a cute guy in a chair keeps showing up in the restaurant, she’s clumsy, awkward and strangely drawn. Can Irene let go of the past or is she too emotionally broken to find a future worth the risk?
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EXCERPT:
The restaurant buzzed with conversation and the
familiar clank of silverware on plates. Movement near the front made me glance
over. A massive, shaggy-haired creature stared up at me from under table one.
My heart pounded. It looked like a fucking bear. I screamed. Everyone in the
restaurant turned to look.
Adam trotted over, his face aflame. “Mom, get a grip.”
As I moved toward the table, I pointed to the bear
and scowled at the guy sitting beside it. “What the fuck is that?”
He looked up at me, a man about my age, who had the
most amazing blue eyes. “Um, it’s a dog, ma’am. A Newfoundland. He’s very civilized.
He’s a—”
“You can’t have a dog in here,” I shouted as he
finished “—service dog.”
That’s when I noticed the bear’s blue backpack.
“Shit. Oh, I’m so sorry…” Great. Now I was yelling
at the disabled. I moved to get out of the way of the huge dog. Something
jabbed into my hip, and the guy with the great eyes jerked sideways. He
clutched the table and swore.
I looked down and saw the wheelchair I’d just
bumped into—unobtrusive, low-slung, a nice red that blended in with our décor.
“Sorry.” I grabbed the handle to straighten it back
out for him.
“Don’t!” he barked.
I backed away, mortified. Adam glared at me.
Someone put a hand on my shoulder.
Edward smiled down at me. “I see you’ve met my
friend, Mark Redfield. Mark, this is Irene, the mother of our charming server.
She’s quite pleasant most of the time. Maybe you could bring us some pie?”
AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Tara
Woolpy is the author of The Lacland series, loosely linked novels set in the
fictional upper midwestern town of Lacland, including Releasing Gillian's
Wolves, Raising Wild Ginger and Midnight Supper at the Rise and Shine. Tara
earned her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Whitworth College after
which she spent a year at the Women Writers Center in Cazenovia, New York.
While pursuing her writing career she paid the rent through an astonishing
number of jobs—she’s been a waitress, a shop owner, a retail clerk, a half-way
house counselor and a commercial diver. Eventually, she took a midlife hiatus
from writing to become an aquatic scientist. As such she also holds a Masters
degree from Oregon State University and a Ph.D. from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. Now she teaches online for the University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay and has come back to writing fiction with new passion and wonder at the
long, serpentine beauty of life. In addition to the novels, her work has
appeared in Focus, Corymb, Kalliope, Alligator Juniper and the anthology The
Things that Divide Us from Seal Press.
Contact
information:
Email
– tlwoolpy@gmail.com
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