Susan Schoenberger

A Watershed Year Susan Schoenberger

Publisher Marketing: Susan Schoenberger takes us to the softer places of the heart where love in all its forms and glory transforms grief into grace. Patti Callahan Henry, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Driftwood Summer" Lucy never confessed her love to her best friend Harlan before he passed away. Two months after his funeral, she is haunted by the power of things left unsaid. But then she receives the first of his e-mails arranged to be sent after his death. So begins the year that everything changes Lucy s watershed year. In an e-mail, Harlan says something that consumes her: He s certain Lucy is destined for motherhood. In her grief, she suddenly rediscovers hope, journeying to Russia to adopt a four-year-old boy. Just as they re learning to trust each other, they must face a threat that might shatter their fragile little family forever. Susan Schoenberger s breathtaking and powerful story of love, loss, redemption and what it means to be a mother will leave you in awe as Lucy, in the depths of her despair, somehow finds joy and embraces the beauty of second chances. With subtle humor and grace, "A Watershed Year" draws out the ways in which our closest relationships can be imperfect and yet continue to transform us. Juliette Fay, bestselling author of "Shelter Me"" Review Citations: CBA Retailers 03/01/2011 pg. 36 (EAN 9780824948566, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Schoenberger, Susan Susan Schoenberger is a writer and editor who lives in West Hartford, Connecticut, with her husband and three (almost-grown) children. A Watershed Year, which won the gold medal in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, is her first novel. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Inkwell, Village Rambler, and Bartlebysnopes.com, among others. A longtime journalist, Susan has worked for the Baltimore Sun, the Hartford Courant, and many other newspapers and online publications. Please visit her website at susanschoenberger.com and follow her on Twitter @schoenwriter. Contributor Bio:  McFadden, Amy Amy McFadden has narrated over one hundred titles in many different genres. She is an Earphones Award winner and was a finalist for a 2014 Audie Award in Literary Fiction. She has been acting all over Michigan on stage for the last twenty years and in commercials and film for the last ten. McFadden is a founding member of Dog Story Theater in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she currently lives, acts, and laughs a lot.