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The Chick Palace
by Leslie Davis Guccione
Kindle Edition : 204 pages
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The friendship of Boston bred Johanna Lawrence and Two Rock, South Carolina’s Lilly Covington spans, well, decades. From their days as college roommates through their years as lakeside neighbors, they’ve offered each other ...
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THREE DILEMMAS, TWO FRIENDS, ONE DESERTED TREE HOUSE
The friendship of Boston bred Johanna Lawrence and Two Rock, South Carolina’s Lilly Covington spans, well, decades. From their days as college roommates through their years as lakeside neighbors, they’ve offered each other sympathy, support and solace for life’s rough edges. Summer’s come round again and with a new crop of concerns, they commandeer their sons’ long-deserted tree house for morning coffee, evening margaritas and soulful contemplation.
Happily married Johanna has a family reunion to organize, a husband needing attention, a daughter wanting advice, and a son sweeping Grand Central terminal as community service for graffiti violations. Fresh from her mother’s memorial service, she carries her small bag of ashes on morning walks around the lake, “waiting for wisdom” as she grapples with her emerging role as materfamilias. Who has she become? How did she get there so fast?
Single again Lilly, bemoaning her fresh status as an empty nester and the second divorce from her only husband, hopes to seek refuge in her aging bungalow next door~~until “Ex-ex” announces that he and his paramour, graphic designer Cat Gallordi, intend to use it on alternate weekends.
All is not well at the far end of picturesque Lake Allamuchy and solutions evaporate when Johanna’s first love, the “local as the corn crop” bad boy she used years ago to defy her parents, suddenly appears. Quicker than he can dub the tree house The Chick Palace, he embroils Johanna and Lilly in a triangle and proves himself as capable of stealing hearts and turning summer upside down as he did one long-ago August.
With her trademark heart, humor and sass, Leslie Davis Guccione plunks us into a lakeside romp fueled by friendship, family, and one old flame not averse to once again testing the waters.
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