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On the surface Junie Olson’s life looks
idyllic, from her handsome husband and beautiful daughter to her successful
business, the bakery she always dreamed of opening. But in the past few
months her world has slowly unraveled. Her precocious child is
withdrawing, showing unexplainable signs of emotional regression, a condition
that frays the bonds of Junie’s once impenetrable marriage. When her
father dies suddenly of a heart attack, Junie packs up her daughter and goes
home to help her mother. Her homecoming stirs up memories of the
nightmare she thought she had put behind her, the disappearance of her
childhood friend, Ellen. Haunted by recurring memories of what happened
on that fateful day, Junie must gather the courage to revisit her past and
untangle the secrets surrounding her missing friend, and the trauma that has
caused her little girl to climb back into herself. As the pieces come
together on the event that shook her small town, and at the risk of losing
everyone she loves, Junie will question everything she thought she could rely
on and everyone she thought she knew.
WHERE PETALS FALL is a gripping and
emotional novel with an undercurrent of suspense, featuring a determined mother
whose world slowly comes apart around her. Where Petals Fall will
appeal to fans of Lisa Scottoline's Save Me or Jodi
Picoult's Salem Falls, who love an emotional and gripping read.
They will root for Junie as they follow her transition into an indomitable
heroine who must reconcile what she discovers about her husband and family’s
tragic past, and find a way to put the pieces of her family back together and
carry on.
Review by Marlene Engel
Junie, Brian, and their four year old daughter, Sarah, recently moved into
a new house. But since the move, Sarah
has begun to regress … no longer talking and wetting the bed. They
have taken her to countless specialists and have yet to receive an actual diagnosis. Stressed out over Sarah, and the fact that
it’s put a wedge between her and her husband, Junie also learns of her father’s
sudden passing. Not wanting her mother
to be alone Junie and Sarah make their way to Pennsylvania to be with her.
But being back in her childhood home brings back flashes of memories
for Junie. When she was seven, her best
friend (and Brian’s sister), Ellen, went missing. She was never found and there weren’t any
leads to her disappearance. So why was
Junie all of a sudden seeing disturbing flashes from her past? A past that she can’t even fully
remember. She remembers the day that
Ellen went missing, but the details surrounding it and the days following it were
blank.
As Junie continues to have these flashes, she starts to question the
people in her life that she has trusted the most. She begins to ask herself if they had any
involvement in Ellen’s disappearance and questions the safety of her daughter
and herself. Will the past come back to
haunt everyone? And are the people she
loves really the people she thought they were?
Junie is determined to find out the answers. Even if it threatens to tear apart her family!
About the Author:
Melissa Foster is
a New York Times & USA Today bestselling
and award-winning author. She writes contmporary romance, new adult,
contemporary women's fiction, suspense, and historical fiction with emotionally
compelling characters that stay with you long after you turn the last page. Her
books have been recommended by USA Today's book blog, Hagerstown
Magazine, The Patriot, and several other print venues. She is
the founder of the Women’s Nest, a social and support community
for women, and the World
Literary Café. When she's not writing, Melissa helps authors
navigate the publishing industry through her author training programs
on Fostering
Success. Melissa has been published in Calgary’s Child Magazine, the
Huffington Post, and Women Business Owners magazine.
Melissa hosts an annual Aspiring
Authors contest for children and has painted and donated several murals to The
Hospital for Sick Children in Washington, DC. Melissa lives in Maryland with
her family.
Visit Melissa on The Women's Nest, Fostering Success, or World Lit Cafe. Melissa enjoys discussing her books
with book clubs and reader groups, and welcomes an invitation to your event.
Author Links
Website * Facebook * Twitter * My social network for women * World Literary Café * Fostering Success * Facebook (Fanpage) * Goodreads
