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deepdown-coverHi—thanks for coming, and thanks for your interest in Shelter Me and Deep Down True.

In Deep Down True Dana Stellgarten is newly divorced and running low on funds, as her happy-go-lucky son suddenly develops anger issues, and her daughter struggles to keep her head above the shark-infested waters of middle school. Things seem to be looking up as Dana finds work, starts dating and is befriended by the popular mother of her daughter’s new BFF. But she soon learns that the tension between being true to herself and being liked doesn’t end in middle school.

Shelter Me begins when a contractor arrives at Janie LaMarche’s house with plans to build a porch. shelterme-coverCommissioned by her husband shortly before his sudden death, she soon realizes he had meant to surprise her with this gift—his last, as it turns out. Though a construction project is the last thing she needs as she grieves, she can’t bring herself to cancel the deal. As the porch is built, Janie is slowly exhumed from the pit of her misery by an unlikely assortment of rescuers.

I’ve just finished my next novel, The Shortest Way Home, about a man who’s spent his adult life as a nurse caring for the poorest of the poor in developing countries around the world. Physically and emotionally burned out, Sean Doran returns home for a brief visit, only to find his elderly aunt, drama-loving sister and oddly quiet nephew are, as his sister puts it, “having our own little natural disaster.”

The Shortest Way Home returns to the setting of Shelter Me, and Cormac the baker plays an even bigger part as Sean’s best friend from high school. Though not exactly a sequel, readers will catch glimpses of Janie and Tug as their relationship progresses. It’s due in bookstores in October 2012.

I hope you’ll enjoy these stories, and that you’ll let me know what you think—email me or leave a comment on my blog. Sign up for the newsletter if you like, and I’ll send you fairly infrequent, but highly scintillating updates. Thanks again for spending a few moments with me.

Warm regards,
Juliette

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