SUMMER OF FRANCE
by Paulita Kincer
An optimistic 40-year-old living in Columbus, Ohio, Fia Randolph spends her days corralling her 14-year-old boy-girl twins and appeasing her accountant husband Grayson. She wishes away the steadily increasing piles of bills on the kitchen table instead of looking for a new job since she lost hers at the local newspaper. A crackly trans-Atlantic phone call from her Great-Uncle Martin breaks the monotony.
Days later, Fia and her family arrive in France to relieve Uncle Martin and his French wife Lucie from running the bed & breakfast in Provence. Left without instructions and limited language skills, the family drifts apart as the twins and Grayson find French diversions. Fia works to keep the bed & breakfast afloat until she discovers the 60-year old secret that has haunted her uncle since WWII. Swept back into a world of mystery and intrigue, Fia must find a way to redeem her uncle’s guilty conscience and keep herself and her family safe from the people who would capture the secret for themselves.
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DEPARTURE
by Paulita Kincer
As Annie Sommer watches her workaholic husband slam out the door one Sunday afternoon, she wonders if ten years of marriage has been wasted time, treading water. Her life has turned black and white and she must go in search of the color again, but she can’t leave her three children behind. Being a mother is the one thing she is certain she does well. So, remembering the time she felt most alive when she traveled as a student in Europe, she sells the minivan, packs up her children and spirits them abroad.
The family travels to London, Loch Ness, Paris and Aix en Provence with Annie lured along the way by intriguing foreign men as she attempts to unearth the woman she was before domestic life consumed her. But weeks on the road with three kids is not as relaxing as a student’s laid back life. Annie lives in fear that her husband will send the police after her to retrieve the children or that she’ll lose one of them in a busy train station. Her greatest fear, though, is that she has truly already lost herself.
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TRAIL MIX
by Paulita Kincer
Deciding to hike the Appalachian Trail as the ultimate diet plan seems likes an inspired idea to friends Andi and Jessica. Their teenage children are rebelling, their careers are going nowhere and their husbands are just a little too controlling. What better way to escape all of that, plus the hot Florida sun, than a 2100-mile hike through the Appalachian Mountains?
Along with the physically harrowing trail and the basics of survival, comes a run-in with soldiers on practice drills, a nearly deadly thunderstorm and some inspiring hiking companions.
These 40-something women are hoping to lose some weight and get in great physical shape, but they hadn’t counted on all that time to think while they are hiking in the wilderness. The trail tests their friendship, a place they’ve always held back just a little. But the trail allows for no secrets from each other or from themselves.