Publisher's Synopsis
Fall in love with "The Month of April."April and Abby had met and fallen in love during their freshman year. Now, seniors, they are set to graduate, leave Memphis and continue their education in Rhode Island. When April's reclusive mother Dani dies at the age of 41, it becomes her responsibility to respect her mom's last wish and to take her ashes to New Orleans. April believes her despondent mother, a functioning alcoholic, is finally at peace, and as her daughter, it's best to obey her mother's last request and move on. Whereas Abby's curiosity will lead her in discovering a story Dani had written about her life in the military in 1996 titled "The Month of April." Dani's story leads April and Abby on a journey to the bustling streets of the French Quarter in New Orleans, where they learn of an unrequited fairy-tale romance Dani had while on leave before being deployed overseas. For April, she is heartbroken it takes her mother's death and the story, if it's true, to bring them closer. For Abby, however, it's about the closure and the truth behind the story that would forever leave Dani heartbroken. Moreover, it will be a nineteen-year-old Dani's words written over twenty years ago about the love of her life, that will guide April and Abby in resolving a mystery time had long forgotten.From the Author: New Orleans. The Big Easy. Bourbon Street.-Hedonistic. Fusty. Beautiful.I chose this city as the setting because it's a place I'm familiar with, a city I fell in love with the first time I visited in 1994 and would go back to many times over the last 25 years. Moreover, it's not the voodoo, the hoodoo, or stories of vampires even. Then again, I've never ventured too far from Bourbon or the French Quarter. And why would I, because that is what I love about this city-the hedonism, and the "every hour is a happy hour", and "the I can leave right now, drive the ten hours and find it open as if it were waiting on me for the party to begin, and I have. I've shown up on a random weekday, two in the morning, and on a few occasions believed I had one too many shots of whiskey, and as soon as I walked off Bourbon, sobered up and went back for more.So of course, I'd want to take my character's there and show them around. Perhaps have a few shots of Jager and maybe even dance with them in the middle of the street, in the rain, as a jazz band plays "My Shining Hour." My wife would smile even, knowing, it's nothing more than a dance and I'll be going home with her when the dance is over.In Plato's "The Symposium" he writes: "Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature."So when it happens, if it happens, where the ever-ticking of the clock stops if only briefly, and two become one dancing blissfully under the starry skies of heaven. The wounds of human nature may heal, but often fate, who answers to no one, will leave one and take the other and in this story leaving Dani behind, without the chance of even saying goodnight, never knowing why the dance ended so soon and left standing alone and with a broken heart.Only Dani's story will not end when she passes from this world and into the other and is no longer forbidden to dance on, and into the end of moonlight. It will be her story she leaves behind; however, "The Month of April" her daughter April and her girlfriend Abby will find that will resolve many of Dani's unanswered questions and bring closure to a mystery time would have forgotten."The Month of April is a love story. It is as Plato said: "Love is born into every human being." So I hope you find the characters in this story as beautiful and as human, and as loving as I do. It is not erotica, or overtly sexual, and if anything it's playful and romantic. Moreover, I for one believe that romance and love and passion, all of that is important in a relationship.
