A Love Story For Grown Ups
If you have ever wondered if a second chance at love was possible…this book will delight and charm you. Should you be in the midst of a relationship that includes the blending of families, requires a change in your life as you know it or if you simply like to read regional literature…A RING, A DANCE, A SECOND CHANCE will speak to you.
Allow yourself to be swept away by a host of characters that are approachable, realistic and yet challenging by design. You won’t be disappointed. The novel is a real Romantic Fiction: Slice of Life Story
Readers from every stage of life will be satisfied to finally have a work of fiction that is entertaining as well as thought provoking. From the first pages we engage with Katie as she answers the phone and finds her high school sweetheart on the other end of the line.
Certainly love moves mountains to manifest itself in amazing ways. What is unique to this story is that the characters are reunited for a second chance at love very much like the author herself was in real life. Jonell Kirby Cash hesitates to compare fact with fiction, but the similarities are compelling. Jonell went to high school with Tom Cash in 1947 and then life took them in different directions. Both adults married and had children before they were widowed and then found each other again in 2001.
Jonell herself is a mother and a grandmother. She is an adoptive parent, a stepmom and step-grandmom. She is an aunt and a sister as well as an educator and philosopher. Because Jonell is a woman of great expectations and lives with an absence of fear, she approaches love differently than others. Writing from a fully engaged perspective, Jonell brings her characters into a robust existence that is unique as well as introspective. Each chapter brings questions of personal growth, entertains the expectations of family members, and causes the reader to challenge their own life thoughtfully.
Within the pages of A RING A DANCE A SECOND CHANCE several story lines play out. Katie engages with other women her age, she nurtures relationships with her children and she falls in love. The opportunity to look at how adults interact with their grown children is rare because these conversations can be difficult ones. Most women worry what others will think and question how family members will react to their actions. At last grownups have a platform to discuss these hard and yet relevant issues amongst themselves and with the people that they love.
What would a great love story be without a happy ending? You won’t be disappointed, but as you close the final chapter you will be left thinking about the relationships in your life. Whether you have experienced a divorce, lost a loved one to age or illness or have been looking for love and missed out so far…be encouraged…life is full of second chances. This book offers a realistic look at love later in life, a jumping off place for open and loving conversations and is simply stated and enjoyable read. Pick it up today. You won’t be disappointed.
Excerpt
A. Setting (time period and location):
In 1998, in her sixties, Katie lives alone in the same home where she and her husband moved as a couple; they raised a family and planned their retirement and then suddenly her husband died. Katie is upset, and in the midst of frantically hunting her wedding band, the one she’d worn for over thirty years, when out of the blue, Taylor, her high school sweetheart, calls. Taylor tells Katie he is traveling through Georgia, on his way to a family gathering, and stops to call, hoping to locate her. Katie learns Taylor is also widowed and lives in Clermont, NC, about a four-hour drive north
Taylor’s voice stirs up memories of 1947 when they fell in love, and fills Katie with fantasies of what might have been. Taylor checks out the territory, questioning Katie if she is married or involved with someone and, though he hangs up abruptly, he intends to pursue Katie, and this time not let other concerns get in his way. Katie worries that if she sees Taylor her settled life will be disrupted.
What do you want people to take from your book?
First, I hope the reader enjoys the story and feels uplifted. If the reader is an older person and considering changing one’s living situation that involves another person, I hope he/she will learn from the story and think about the advantages and difficulties of marriage later in life, while at the same time understands some of the issues that should be discussed and perhaps resolved with one’s partner before they marry.
Young at heart? Jump In!
What is unique about this book is that it explores love after 50. Many people who have a second chance at love question how to talk to their grown children. This work of fiction addresses these conversations head on. A child or a child at heart...you will love every page and look forward to each and every chapter.
As the reader engages in the characters...opportunities unfold to look at parent child relationships, "grown up" dating, the blending of diverse families and to explore the modern reality that families come in all shapes and sizes and cannot be defined in any one way.
Enjoy the book because it is light and entertaining and then allow it to challange you as well. Use it as a way to say "this happened to me....How do you feel about this?" If you are looking for a second chance at love, be encouraged and fortified! If your parent comes to you "to talk" jump in! Need a chance to talk to your loved one? Here it is! A RING A DANCE A SECOND CHANCE is at your fingertips!
What is unique about this book is that it explores love after 50. Many people who have a second chance at love question how to talk to their grown children. This work of fiction addresses these conversations head on. Issues such as blended families, same sex marriages and dating after the death of a spouse are on the table at last!
As the reader engages in the characters...opportunities unfold to look at parent child relationships, "grown up" dating, the blending of diverse families and to explore the modern reality that families come in all shapes and sizes and cannot be defined in any one way.
Enjoy the book because it is light and entertaining and then allow it to challange you as well. Use it as a way to say "this happened to me....How do you feel about this?" If you are looking for a second chance at love, be encouraged and fortified! If your parent comes to you "to talk" jump in! Need a chance to talk to your loved one? Here it is! A RING A DANCE A SECOND CHANCE is at your fingertips!
Certainly this is a book about a second chance of love...ultimatley it touches on many important lif
Certainly this is a book about a second chance of love...ultimatley it touches on many important lif
What I found so refreshing is that generational issues are addressed in an open and honest format. My friends and family members that are 55 and older have expressed to me that they never felt comfortable discussing step children, divorce, blended families much less larger issues such as marital discourse, diverse relationships and evolving as a human being. Honestly doesn't everyone that has lived past thirty realized that there is either a gay family member, an interracial marriage in their midst or a divorse or two along the family tree? A RING A DANCE A SECOND CHANCE does not touch on every single one of these issues directly but it acknowledges that families are diverse and interesting and thus you are not alone! What a wonderful thing for 55 and older audience to have a platform to discuss previously "hush hush" issues! What an interesting concept that middle aged adults be able to talk to their parents and step parents about the issues that are relative to them! Read the book simply as a love story for adults. Read the book if it resonates with you and your search for love or if it reassures you that there is someone out there for you. Read the book if you have ever evolved and questioned yourself and who you are becoming. In a world where life is complicated...love does find a way
Family Relations
Jonell Kirby Cash writes with great feeling and insight into family relationships in her debut novel, “A Ring, A Dance, A Chance”. Readers, especially those who are wondering if marriage after sixty can be a part of their future, will identify with and root for Cash’s Katie and will come away with a positive belief in love at any age”.
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