Book Blurb Friday/Summer of Angels

It is Book Blurb Friday at Lisa's Writing in the Buff (http://www.writinginthebuff.net/).

It is so hot here that everything is dying except the Japanese Beetles! The week has been a trial with heat added to issues. Had I not written my blurb last weekend, I would never have made it today. ( See previous post!)

Finally, I am on top of enough things around here to participate again. Lisa provides a picture and writers produce a book blurb cover at 150 words or less. For complete rules visit her blog. This weeks picture reminds me of The Midnight Garden of Good and Evil, but my story is vastly different.

Summer of Angels

After the fatal car crash, Sarah visited her best friend almost every day. She pedaled her Schwinn to the park-like Oak Hill Cemetery where Melody listened to Sarah spill buckets of adolescent angst and never criticized or censured. Their visits were never interrupted with more than red bird chatter in the cedars.

Then one sunny morning as Sally sat in the thick grass near Melody's headstone, she heard choking sobs drift up from the Nelson mausoleum. There Sally witnessed a young man’s shoulders shaking, his head in his hands. Should she step away quietly or offer comfort? Who was he anyway? No Nelson had lived in town for years.

With Melody’s silent support and encouragement, Sally plays Nancy Drew seeking answers. It turns out to be an astonishing summer full of revelations and bombshell surprises.