Violet
and Finn were “meant to be,” said everyone, always. They ended up together by
the hands of fate aligning things just so. Three years into their marriage,
they have a wonderful little boy, and as the three of them embark on their
first vacation as a family, Violet can’t help thinking that she can’t believe
her luck. Life is good.
So no one is more surprised than she when Finn
leaves her at the beach―just packs up the hotel room and disappears. And takes
their son with him. Violet is suddenly in her own worst nightmare, and faced
with the knowledge that the man she’s shared her life with, she never really
knew at all.
Caitlin and Finn have been best friends since way
back when, but when Finn shows up on Caitlin’s doorstep with the son he’s
wanted for kidnapping, demands that she hide them from the authorities, and
threatens to reveal a secret that could destroy her own family if she doesn’t,
Caitlin faces an impossible choice.
As the
suspenseful events unfold through alternating viewpoints of Violet, Finn and
Caitlin, Jessica Strawser's Almost Missed You is a page
turning story of a mother’s love, a husband’s betrayal, connections that maybe
should have been missed, secrets that perhaps shouldn’t have been kept, and
spaces between what’s meant to be and what might have been.
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About the author:
By day, Jessica Strawser is the
Editor-at-Large of Writer’s Digest magazine,
North America’s leading publication for aspiring and working writers since
1920. By night, she is a fiction writer with a debut novel, and, by the minute,
she is a proud wife and mom to two super sweet and super young kids in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Her diverse career in the publishing industry spans
more than 15 years and includes stints in book editing, marketing and public
relations, and freelance writing and editing. A Pittsburgh native and
“Outstanding Senior” graduate of Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of
Journalism, she counts her New York
Times Modern Love essay and her Writer’s
Digest cover interviews with such luminaries as Alice Walker, Anne
Tyler and David Sedaris among her career highlights.
She blogs at the WritersDigest.com “There Are No
Rules” blog and elsewhere, enjoys connecting on Facebook and speaks at writing
conferences and events that are kind enough to invite her.
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