Autumn Dreams
Registered by ReadingGal79 of Antioch, Illinois USA on 8/13/2003
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
2 journalers for this copy...
I received this book on 8/11 from Multnomah Publishers (Sisters, OR) to register, read, review, and release. My daughter is reading this now. Please PM me if you'd like to read it after me.
c. 2003 -- Seaside Seasons Book 3 {#1 Spring Rain, #2 Summer Shadows} -- Single people -- Baby boom generation -- Parent and adult child -- Adult children of aging parents -- Fiction / General / Contemporary
Back Cover: Somewhere between wishes and reality ... lie dreams. Her mother, father, and nephew all need her -- but have Cass's dreams gotten lost in the crunch?
They call it the "sandwich generation." Daughter, sister, auntie, innkeeper, employer -- but has Cass herself gotten lost in the crunch?
The proud proprietor of her own bed-and-breakfast in sleepy Seaside, NJ, Cass Merton is intrigued by Dan Harmon who arrives at SeaSong for an extended stay. After witnessing the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York City, the godly finance specialist is rethinking his life, career, and relationships -- or lack of them. God, Dan laments, I can't do this! 45 is too old to have no plan for the future!
Whatever possessed me to think I could do this? Cass asks, questioning her consent to care for her easygoing nephew and feisty teenage nice for a whole year while their parents work in the Middle East. Add Cass's four brothers, who don't take Dad's compulsive contest entries and Mom's increasing dementia one bit seriously, and her emotions swirl like the quickly rising hurricane that's fast approaching Seaside.
But everyday cares aren't Cass's only problems. A troubled young employee unknowingly endangers her as well. When an alarm sounds in the middle of the night, bullets fly and Cass is taken hostage by a gunman. Dan looks urgently to the Lord for help and recognizes a new emotion within himself: love.
c. 2003 -- Seaside Seasons Book 3 {#1 Spring Rain, #2 Summer Shadows} -- Single people -- Baby boom generation -- Parent and adult child -- Adult children of aging parents -- Fiction / General / Contemporary
Back Cover: Somewhere between wishes and reality ... lie dreams. Her mother, father, and nephew all need her -- but have Cass's dreams gotten lost in the crunch?
They call it the "sandwich generation." Daughter, sister, auntie, innkeeper, employer -- but has Cass herself gotten lost in the crunch?
The proud proprietor of her own bed-and-breakfast in sleepy Seaside, NJ, Cass Merton is intrigued by Dan Harmon who arrives at SeaSong for an extended stay. After witnessing the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York City, the godly finance specialist is rethinking his life, career, and relationships -- or lack of them. God, Dan laments, I can't do this! 45 is too old to have no plan for the future!
Whatever possessed me to think I could do this? Cass asks, questioning her consent to care for her easygoing nephew and feisty teenage nice for a whole year while their parents work in the Middle East. Add Cass's four brothers, who don't take Dad's compulsive contest entries and Mom's increasing dementia one bit seriously, and her emotions swirl like the quickly rising hurricane that's fast approaching Seaside.
But everyday cares aren't Cass's only problems. A troubled young employee unknowingly endangers her as well. When an alarm sounds in the middle of the night, bullets fly and Cass is taken hostage by a gunman. Dan looks urgently to the Lord for help and recognizes a new emotion within himself: love.
truly lovely book....its one of those that you can curl up on the couch with your cat and really enjoy...very relaxing and yet has a nice tone of suspense in there too..
Going through my bookshelves to lower Mt. TBR. I don't think I'll ever get to read this book, although it looks good. I'm sending it to kathleenk in NY through BookMooch.
