When your fate seems written in the stars, how far would you go to change your future?
Northampton House Press
August 2014
On Sale: August 1, 2014
Featuring: Valentine; Theresa; Caroline
212 pages ISBN: 1937997421 EAN: 9781937997427 Kindle: B00JWDPI0I Trade Size / e-Book Add to Wish List
Seventeen-year-old Valentine never imagined her life as a
fairytale. Growing up, she's barely getting by, spending
her time, energy, and money caring for her younger brother,
Jonathon, and herself. Her mother lives recklessly and
selfishly, occasionally sobering just enough to see her
children through glassy eyes. After yet another violent
episode involving her mother’s boyfriend, Valentine decides
to run away, taking Jonathon with her. In search of a
better life, she gets half-way across the country . . .
only to receive such shocking news, it forces her to turn
the car around.
Twenty years earlier, Valentine’s mother Theresa, the
privileged daughter of a small-town police chief and a
strict, repressive mother, finds herself desperate and
devoid of options when she lands in Los Angeles, 13 years
old, pregnant, and utterly without a clue. Life on the
street is ten times meaner than she ever imagined, and as
she struggles to get through each day, week, and month, she
holds on to the hope of finally getting herself back to
upper-class suburban bliss . . . if she can only make it
out of LA in one piece.
And twenty years before even that, in suburbia, Theresa’s
mother, Caroline, plays the part of doting wife like a pro,
but behind the designer skirts and lipstick smiles lies a
married life of severe physical and emotional abuse. After
having two children, Caroline settles into the idea of
living in home with a man who terrifies her…only to have
the love of her life show up on her doorstep, asking her to
make a choice that will forever change her path and those
of the women who will come after her.
NESTING DOLLS is the multigenerational story of three
women, how their lives connect and diverge, and how they
support or betray each other due to circumstances and the
choices they make. Their lives each span a different time,
a different life, but ultimately converge in a single
theme: how mothers and daughters are truly bound together
forever, no matter what they may imagine, dream, or regret.
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