Starting on January 1st (why not, right?) I will share chapter excerpts each week, leading up to the book launch - 10 weeks will give you some juicy bits from the first 10 chapters. During that time, I also invite everyone to share their best, most horrible, funniest, emotionally challenging or humiliating mental pause (aka menopause) moments. It's very reassuring to know that there are others out there feeling like they're losing their minds! It's just another phase like the terrible twos only it's not as acceptable to have a tantrum in the middle of the grocery store when there's no Nutella left on the shelf!
Welcome to Abbie's emotional jalopy ride! Here's a taste of Mental Pause - the novel:
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Abigail
Slocum, a forty-something, average, middle of the road, housewife and mother of
teenage twin boys, is trying desperately to keep her outwardly idyllic life
together while spiraling into a dark pit of menopausal insanity. Her mind races
with suicidal, murderous thoughts so outside of her normal character that it
frightens her. The only person she can share the graphic images from her
hormonally addled mind with is her recently separated best friend,
Rachel, and the mysterious and titillating Joan, a new friend from Rachel's
singles support group who left her husband after coming out of the
closet.
Women have survived
this female passage of life since the beginning of time! Why was Abbie
having so much trouble handling it? As the battle to maintain her sanity
rages on, Abbie, Rachel and Joan stumble into unfortunate, borderline comical,
circumstances that lead to all night parties, sex and drugs and two suspicious
deaths (three if you count the Pit Bull). Abbie’s cop husband, Conrad, tries
desperately to understand what’s happening to his normally sweet wife.
While Conrad vies for promotion, the Slocum family gets embroiled in a media
frenzy that swirls around a murder trial in which Abbie is the primary suspect. Will she plead temporary insanity?
