Libby Veronin thinks herself content until she discovers her daughter Meredith is in love with Aaron Murray—the estranged son of Libby’s first love, Dylan. As her memories of Dylan swell into an obsession, Libby realizes she is not happy at all; she’s traded all her dreams for the crushingly ordinary sort of life she left her hometown to escape. Just when Libby feels stretched to her limit, she learns Meredith is pregnant—and Aaron doesn’t want the baby.

Libby grabs this opportunity to meet Dylan at their children’s university, hoping to resolve both Meredith and Aaron’s situation and her own relationship with Dylan. Instead of closure for a buried passion, she finds the reopening of one that never died. If she and Dylan leave their families to pursue the life they always dreamed of together, Aaron will abandon Meredith and the baby. To salvage her daughter’s prospects of happiness, Libby will have to sacrifice her own—unless she can find another way to rebuild her dreams.

The Former Desolations is my first novel and is complete at about 115,000 words. Read the first chapter here:  Former_Desolations_ch_1.doc

Or download the onesheet here:  FD_onesheet.pdf