Title:
To Fall in Love Again
Author:
David Burnett
Release
date: February, 2015
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Book
Description:
Drew Nelson did not plan
to talk with anyone that morning. He did not plan to make a new friend. He
certainly did not plan to fall in love.He resisted all of Amy’s attempts to
draw him out− at the hotel, at the airport, on the airplane− giving hurried
responses and burying his face in a pile of papers. It was only when the flight
attendant offered coffee, and a muscle in Amy’s back twitched as she reached
for it, and the cup tipped, and the hot liquid puddled in Drew’s lap that they
began to talk. Earlier in the year, each had lost a spouse of over thirty
years. Drew’s wife had died of a brain tumor, Amy’s husband when his small
airplane nose-dived to earth, the engine at full throttle − an accident, it was
ruled.They live in the same city. Both have grandchildren. They are about the
same age. Consciously, or not, they both are looking to love again.
But relationships do not exist in vacuums. Drew is wealthy, and Amy is middle class. Amy is “new” in town – she and her husband moved to Charleston twenty-five years ago – while Drew’s family has lived there for three centuries. Drew lives below Broad, a code word for high society, old families, power, and money. Amy’s home is across the river.
Class warfare may be less violent than it was in the past, but when Drew invites Amy to the St Cecelia Ball, battle lines are drawn. In a city in which ancestry is important, the ball’s membership is passed from father to son, and only those from the oldest families attend.
Family, friends, co-workers all weigh in on their relationship and choose sides. Allies are found in unexpected places. Opposition comes from among those who were thought to be friends. Though they are gone, even their spouses − through things they have done and things they have said − wield influence in the conflict that follows.
Amy begins to suspect that Drew is one of them, the rich snobs who despise her, while Drew concludes that Amy neither trusts him nor cares for him. As each questions the other’s motives, their feelings for each other are tested, and Drew and Amy are challenged to consider if they truly want to fall in love again.
But relationships do not exist in vacuums. Drew is wealthy, and Amy is middle class. Amy is “new” in town – she and her husband moved to Charleston twenty-five years ago – while Drew’s family has lived there for three centuries. Drew lives below Broad, a code word for high society, old families, power, and money. Amy’s home is across the river.
Class warfare may be less violent than it was in the past, but when Drew invites Amy to the St Cecelia Ball, battle lines are drawn. In a city in which ancestry is important, the ball’s membership is passed from father to son, and only those from the oldest families attend.
Family, friends, co-workers all weigh in on their relationship and choose sides. Allies are found in unexpected places. Opposition comes from among those who were thought to be friends. Though they are gone, even their spouses − through things they have done and things they have said − wield influence in the conflict that follows.
Amy begins to suspect that Drew is one of them, the rich snobs who despise her, while Drew concludes that Amy neither trusts him nor cares for him. As each questions the other’s motives, their feelings for each other are tested, and Drew and Amy are challenged to consider if they truly want to fall in love again.
About
the Author:
David Burnett lives in Columbia South
Carolina, with his wife and their blue-eyed cat, Bonnie. The Reunion, his first
novel, is set in nearby Charleston.
David enjoys traveling, photography, baking bread, and the Carolina beaches.
David enjoys traveling, photography, baking bread, and the Carolina beaches.
He has
photographed subjects as varied as prehistoric ruins on the islands of
Scotland, star trails, sea gulls, and a Native American powwow. David and his
wife have travelled widely in the United States and the United Kingdom. During one
trip to Scotland, they visited Crathes Castle, the ancestral home of the
Burnett family near Aberdeen. In The Reunion, Michael's journey through England
and Scotland allows him to sketch many places they have visited.
David has graduate
degrees in psychology and education and previously was Director of Research for
the South Carolina Department of Education. He and his wife have two daughters.
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