The Gambler’s Wife Trailer
House on Sand Book Trailer
Book Signing at Blue Valley Bistro
August 11th 2021
Thank you to all of you who turned out at Blue Valley Bistro. What a fun event! I am so grateful to my wonderful friends. I don’t want to be cheesy, but they truly are the wind beneath my wings.
Launch Party for House on Sand
July 31st 2021
These ladies treated me with the most wonderful book launch. Everyone of them was instrumental in helping me put this book together. There are no words!
Thank you to Alesha Culp Photography for the photos :)
Shout out to Melissa, Allison, Jewel, Harmony and Ruby.
About House on Sand
Ellie Gold did not know her house was built on sand until the storm arrived.
The rhythm of family life has lulled Ellie Gold into a sense of false security, allowing her to ignore the tremors beneath the surface of her marriage. She may not have a perfect life, but certainly a blessed one: two beautiful boys, a successful teaching career and a marriage to a charming minister. But a brutal collision with the truth will destroy her reality. When Davis, her husband of fifteen years and the pastor of South Hills Church confesses his affair with her nineteen-year-old niece, Mariah, he is not motivated by repentance. He needs Ellie to manage his out of control, emotionally unstable mistress because she now threatens suicide. Ellie, summoned by a sense of Christian duty stands on the pedestrian bridge and begs Mariah not to jump into the frigid water below. "He never loved you!" Her niece's words echo in her ear on automatic replay. Maybe she should just let her jump? In her moment of deepest humiliation, Ellie cannot help but wonder, where is God now? Ellie's pride lies in her identity as a responsible and mature Christian, yet this is her reward? When the secret of Mariah and Davis' affair is finally revealed to Ellie's family, her life will never be the same. Like a sparrow struck by lightning, Ellie Gold falls from the sky.
After a failed attempt to salvage her marriage, Ellie flees the wreckage like a wounded creature. Now a single mother, she moves her little family to the small town of Veneta, Oregon with the plan of rebuilding her life. The promise of new love with her neighbor Levi and a growing friendship with a sisterhood of prayer warriors offers a glimmer of hope. Levi is a widower, a father, and a man of strong character. He shows his love for Ellie through action whether building a chicken coop, repairing a broken pipe, and driving through a blizzard just to reach her, but she can only see herself as damaged goods. No man can heal her, but an eclectic group of female spiritual mentors might have a shot: Ruby an African America substitute teacher with a penchant for canning and impromptu prayer, Allison, a fierce mother with a love for chickens, Harmony, a gun toting barrel racing champ with a talent for numbers, and Jewel, a Korean American real estate agent who chats up homeless men in her four inch tiger heels form a circle of protection around her. These women are the unlikely ticket to a life of healing, laughter, and joy, a future where Ellie can draw on the strength of true friends to confront the people who have hurt her and learn to love herself.