Before Ever After: A Novel
Good news! I know someone who is a published author!
Samantha Sotto is releasing her novel 'Before Ever After' on August 2, 2011 from Crown/Random House. I had lunch with Sam and her husband Joseph (who was my classmate for 9 years in grade school and high school) last Summer when they told me the good news -- and I'm so happy that the book is finally coming out.
This is Sam's first novel and Random House picked her up -- so impressive!
Visit Samantha Sotto's Web site
Before Ever After: A NovelImage: (Amazon.com)
Synopsis:
A modern fairy tale about true love, happy endings, new beginnings, and everything in between. Available as a hardcover and eBook August 2011.
Three years after her husband Max’s death, Shelley feels no more adjusted to being a widow than she did that first terrible day. That is, until the doorbell rings. Standing on her front step is a young man who looks so much like Max–same smile, same eyes, same age, same adorable bump in his nose–he could be Max’s long-lost relation. He introduces himself as Paolo, an Italian editor of American coffee table books, and shows Shelley some childhood photos. Paolo tells her that the man in the photos, the bearded man who Paolo says is his grandfather though he never seems to age, is Max. Her Max. And he is alive and well.
As outrageous as Paolo’s claims seem–how could her husband be alive? And if he is, why hasn’t he looked her up? – Shelley desperately wants to know the truth. She and Paolo jet across the globe to track Max down–if it is really Max– and along the way, Shelley recounts the European package tour where they had met. As she relives Max’s stories of bloody Parisian barricades,medieval Austrian kitchens, and buried Roman boathouses, Shelley begins to piece together the story of who her husband was and what these new revelations mean for her “happily ever after.” And as she and Paolo get closer to the truth, Shelley discovers that not all stories end where they are supposed to.
Before Ever After: A NovelImage: (Amazon.com)
