Edited to add that I now have my rights back and have Serendipity House up with a new cover and new, lower price that's half of my former publisher's price.
If your reading pleasure leans towards women's fiction, I invite you to read the first two chapters of my full-length novel,
Serendipity House, on my website,
joycedebacco.com.
Although
Serendipity House begins and ends like a romance, in between is a multi-layered story about the diverse relationships between family members as well as strangers who become like family. Besides a mystery and a romance, the characters deal with the realization that we’re all the children of imperfect parents, the growing friendships between people of dissimilar backgrounds, and the quest to be accepted and loved regardless of our flaws.
Sylvie was a pleaser. She did as her mother pleased, and she did as her fiancé pleased. Then she did as she pleased. Raised by a domineering mother, Sylvie doesn’t like the submissive woman she’s become. Determined to take back her life, she heads to the hills instead of to the altar on her wedding day. Coming across a quaint, country inn with an intriguing name, she impulsively checks into
Serendipity House. Peopled with an odd assortment of characters, the inn has clearly seen better days. Even the regulars have a bit of wear on them.
When attractive Alex arrives and is strangely comfortable vacationing among the geriatric set, Sylvie does her best to ignore him. But Alex will not be ignored, pushing her buttons until she admits, if only to herself that she’s falling for him. Not until she’s hired to manage the inn does she learn he’s not the businessman he pretends to be, but a streetwise PI hired by her ex to find her. Adding insult to injury, he’s bought the inn and asks for her help in restoring it to its former glory.
Forced to work together, both learn about relationships, expectations, and acceptance—among family members as well as strangers who become like family.
Thanks for reading, and I hope you’ll visit
Serendipity House.
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