HADLEY & GRACE by Suzanne Redfearn PLUS two giveaways!

 

I love novels that keep you on the edge of your seat with characters so complex and multi-layered, you can’t help, but keep turning the pages. Suzanne Redfearn’s new novel, HADLEY & GRACE (LakeUnionPublishing) is such a book.

After fifteen-years of marriage, Hadley is ready to leave her abusive husband, Frank. They have a fourteen-year-old daughter, Mattie who is going through those “teen years,” and the son of her sister, Skipper is living with them.

Grace’s husband is in Afghanistan and she’s is sick of him gambling away their rent and food money. She’s ready to move on with their infant son, Miles and make a change for the better.

Through a score of coincidences, that somehow make sense, they end up in the same spot at the exact minute committing the same crime. Their story makes the news and the country is cheering on the mama renegades along with their kids. I liked all characters and was rooting for them to succeed, but wondering in the back of my mind, how this was going to end. I knew in my heart, having read several of Redfearn’s novels before, that she couldn’t have the book end in a shoot-out or prison.

I’m trying to write this without giving any of the story away, because it’s too face-paced and delicious. But what intrigues me most was how nearly all the characters transformed. They are so unique, yet each has a connection to the other, which created a family. It’s a novel about self-reflection and personal empowerment. As Redfearn shares in her notes, it’s partly about discovering a “better us under the one we show the world.” That alone should send you to the bookstore.

HADLEY & GRACE will be published Monday, February 1^st. You can pre-order it now on line or at your favorite independent bookstore.

Thanks to Suzanne and her publisher, we have two copies to giveaway. Just tell us what family means to you. We’ll announce a winner soon. Good luck.

GIVEAWAY: USA only please