PLANET LARA TEMPEST by Eliza Gordon - Spotlight & Giveaway

 

“I am a work in progress, just like everyone else.”

The Dea Vitae cult might be gone from Thalia Island, but Lara and her grandfather's eco-utopia remains in peril. Rupert’s ongoing lymphoma treatment deposits Lara at Thalia’s helm with no idea of what to do with the problems ahead. Finan may be back from the mainland after two weeks of silence, but the sting lingers.

Beyond the grind of running her own “planet”—while privately grieving the loss of her beloved grandfather and worrying if the cancer will take Number Two—Lara must contend with the reappearance of Jacinta Ramirez, a fugitive Clarke Innovations has been shielding all these years. Jacinta unveils disturbing secrets that reshape the history Lara’s been fed about her late mother’s past—and how much that past threatens to derail their cumulative future.

When overwhelming stress sends Lara to the bottom of the whisky bottle, Finan gently reminds her that slipping into old habits won’t fix what’s broken. As she tries to pull herself together, tragedy strikes that brings her and Finan together, but with a series of cryptic clues arriving on the island, the mystery of Dea Vitae and its sought-after treasure deepens.

It's going to take Lara and Finan, along with some unscrupulous characters to restore the sanctity of Dea Vitae and that of Thalia Island itself.

FYI: TEMPEST includes medical scenes involving reproductive complications that some readers might find triggering.

A native of Portland, Oregon, Eliza Gordon (a.k.a. Jennifer Sommersby) has lived up and down the West Coast of the United States. Since 2002, home has been a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia. When not lost in a writing project, Eliza is a copy editor, mom, wife, bibliophile, Superman freak, and the proud parent of three very spoiled tuxedo cats.

Eliza writes stories to help you believe in the Happily Ever After; Jennifer Sommersby writes young adult fiction. Her debut, Sleight, was published in 2018 by HarperCollins Canada, Sky Pony (US), and Prószynski i S-ka (Poland). The sequel, titled Scheme in the US and The Undoing in Canada, released March and April 2020.

Eliza/Jenn is represented by Stacey Kondla at The Rights Factory.

Thanks to Kate Rock Book Tours we have one copy to giveaway. Just tell us your favorite "happily ever" story. We'll announce a winner soon. Good luck.

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