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Book Blurb

Jazz pianist Liz Randall is reeling from her wife’s death and struggling to keep their band together. An invitation to play at the prestigious Monterey Jazz Festival is an opportunity she can’t turn down, and a challenge she might not be up to until she enlists the help of a mysterious neighbor who’s surprisingly knowledgeable about jazz.

When Jac Winters reluctantly agrees to help, a past she wants to forget threatens to destroy the carefully ordered life she’s built with her guide dog, Max, in the quiet town of Carmel-by-the-Sea.

With music and love swirling around them like ocean currents, will Liz and Jac play it safe or risk everything on making a comeback?

 

Book Review

Oh my goodness, this book has music at its heart and foundation. There are two astoundingly gifted women each battling different pressures that come with mind-boggling intricacies. They cope as best they can while attempting to maintain a functional equilibrium that allows them to sustain a lifeline to the world of music, preserving and protecting talents and creative treasures hanging in the balance. This book unquestionably blew me away and I definitely recommend it. Exquisitely enveloping!

Liz Randall has suffered a devastating loss. Her wife, who was oh so much more, succumbed to leukemia. Liz seems so lost and appears to be dangling by a thread. That thread is born from music, takes its strength from music, and I think it puts her in just the right place at just the right time. She literally bumps into possibly the answer, the light, and maybe the most cantankerous entity on the planet! Surprisingly, this woman who is now blind is a link to Liz's musical soul and a guide to Liz's musical reincarnation. Nevertheless, Liz still has a staggering journey to make, family historical bonds to break free from, and a purely amazing rebirth to live through. I cried and soared on the wings of Liz Randall's thoroughly enthralling journey. Melodiously mesmerizing!

Jac Winters is blind and has muscular skeletal difficulties because of complications from a car accident approximately ten years ago. She inadvertently encounters Liz because of a miscalculation Liz makes as she is carrying a large painting. This painting extraordinarily links Liz to a family member of Jac's. Phenomenal! However, it is Jac's mysteriously astute technical skills as if she were a musician that provide a much needed lifeline for Liz as they assembled Liz's first live album. Jac assists Liz through that rigorous process that must be completed as soon as possible. During this exhilarating collaboration it is definitely Liz who appears way more incapacitated than the clearly physically disabled Jac. Yet they both seemingly have deeply troubling emotional issues with tendrils thick and complexly woven through their personal, public, and professional lives. Jac is a puzzle wrapped in a disguise, hidden and withdrawn from the world. Staggeringly splendiferous!

This story is definitely a roller coaster ride with soaring highs, gut-wrenching vertical plummets, and it is not to be missed. Plus all the sublime musical complexities put this book in a rarified world usually not open to many in life, yet here everyone gets to live the magic as two women make a comeback!

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook and print
Length	Novel, 312 pages/93400 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	01-July-2015
Price	$9.99 ebook, $16.95 paperback, $19.99 bundle
Buy Link	http://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/9781626393578B.html