Laurie Van Dermark

The Battered Heiress Blues Laurie Van Dermark

*Award winning Producer/Screenwriter Chase Chenowith, President of Back Fence Productions, has optioned this book for a future feature film. WINNER 2013 LOS ANGELES BOOK FESTIVAL WINNER 2012 NEW YORK BOOK FESTIVAL RUNNER-UP 2013 PARIS BOOK FESTIVAL THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW: "A single bad decision can wreak havoc on one's life. 'The Battered Heiress Blues' is a novel of a mother facing the tough decisions that may result in the death of her unborn child. With the results of a poor choice in husband, acts of violence, and the one chance at happiness in her future, 'The Battered Heiress Blues' is a riveting novel of the pain of the choices mothers make. RECOMMENDED." AUTHOR DESCRIPTION: When the life of her child is threatened, philanthropist Julia Spencer is faced with a most difficult decision- do nothing, thereby saving herself, or forge ahead and lose everything she holds dear. While one child is spared, another is lost forever. Surviving a brutal assault in a small and desolate Peruvian town, Julia wakes to find that her unborn child has perished in a desperate, violent attack. Returning to the safety of her family's Savannah estate, she prepares to bury her tragically murdered son. Forced to confront the choices that led to her son's death, she is bombarded with resolving the details of her poorly conceived marriage, estrangement from a powerful and disapproving patriarch, and navigating the sudden renewal of a long forgotten flame- Henry Walker. Unable to find her way out of the grief and sorrow, those who profess love eventually leave one by one, but not before a precious gift is left behind that will change everything.