Trailer Tuesday: A Father’s Letter to His Daughter from Dandelion Summer

Today’s trailer is from Lisa Wingate and is based on a segment from her novel Dandelion Summer. It’s being run in celebration of a special someone’s 21st birthday and for that someone’s daddy.

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All of her life, Epiphany Salerno has been tossed like a dandelion seed on the wind. Now, with the death of Mrs. Lora-the family friend who took Epie into her home-the sixteen-year-old must move to Dallas to live with her indifferent mother and new stepfather. Trapped on the low-rent side of Blue Sky Hill, the half-Italian and half-African-American Epie doesn’t fit in-and soon finds herself on the wrong side of the law. To make restitution, she’s sent to work in another place she’s not wanted: a home on the upscale streets of the The Hill.

When J. Norman Alvord learns that his daughter has hired a teenager to stay with him in the afternoons, he’s determined to nix the arrangement. Widowed and suffering from heart trouble, Norman wants to be left alone. But in Epie’s presence, Norman finds a mystery. Deep in his mind lie memories of another house, another life, and a young black woman, a housekeeper, who saved him…

As summer comes to Blue Sky Hill, two residents from different worlds will journey through a turbulent past
and find that with an unexpected road trip through sleepy Southern towns come a life-changing friendship…and clues to a family secret hidden for a lifetime.

Lisa Wingate is an award-winning journalist, magazine columnist, popular inspirational speaker and a national bestselling author.  Lisa is one of a select group of authors to find success in both the Christian and general markets in mainstream fiction. Her works have been featured by the National Reader’s Club of America, AOL Book Picks, Women’s World Magazine, Family Circle Magazine, and have been short-listed for various awards, including the American Christian Fiction Writer’s Book of the Year Award, which her book Never Say Never won in 2011.  Lisa also spends time on the road as a motivational speaker. Via Internet, she shares with readers as far away as India, where her book, Tending Roses, has been used to promote women’s literacy, and as close to home as Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the county library system has used Tending Roses to help volunteers teach adults to read.  Dandelion Summer was recently a finalist in the Oklahoma Book Award, Fiction category and Larkspur Cove was a finalist for the Christy. Lisa is a double nominee for ACFW Carol Award this year with Dandelion Summer and Larkspur Cove.

Find Lisa at:

Twitter:   http://twitter.com/#!/lisawingate  

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lisa-Wingate-Readers-Circle/132187520154779 

Blogging Mondays at: www.SouthernBelleView.com

Her website:www.Lisawingate.com

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