Rising Fawn - Paperback

by Estelle Ford-Williamson (Author)

Clare Connor enjoys personal and financial success by teaching people how to be their best selves-she's a professional life coach in a major Southern city. But her life starts to come undone when she experiences first one, then another major financial shock. Her husband has already been acting suspicious. Does he have a woman on the side? The financial fraud unravels the marriage, and he tells her to leave. Clare is thrown on her own devices and gets little help from a divorce lawyer. With the promise of work nearby, she flees to a remote area of the state to get her life together.

The earthquakes that forced up the mountains where she now lives reflect the seismic shocks in her own life. Without the financial security she had, Clare struggles with who she is and how she's going to make a comeback. Fate throws her together with some unlikely allies, some of whom are tied to Irish and Italian immigrants in these strange lands. She taps into the power of the area's natural wonders, what is left of her long-forgotten faith, and the tatters of her family's past to face a future that is forever changed.

Author Biography

Estelle Ford-Williamson is a novelist, memoirist, and writing teacher. Prior to Rising Fawn, she collaborated with Majok Marier to publish Seed of South Sudan: Memoir of a "Lost Boy" Refugee. She has won awards at the Sandhills and Atlanta Writers Conferences and performed readings and workshops for Poets and Writers, Inc., and the Pat Conroy Literary Center. Earlier in her career, she reported for UPI in Atlanta and worked as a management trainer and career specialist.