Ending Up

by Ellen Dye

On her fortieth birthday housewife Wanda Jo Ashton is expecting her husband's standard gift of an E and E from T---that being Elegant and Expensive from Tiffany's. However, what she gets is the news that her formerly successful, dependable, corporate attorney husband is leaving her to pursue the rich life of a kept man. Left with nothing, she has no choice but to escape the San Francisco area, with her sixteen-year old daughter in tow, and head toward the mountains of West Virginia and the quirky family she left behind twenty years ago. Here Wanda Jo must carve out a future, complete with career and home in the midst of family feuds, computer phobias and the occasional homebrewing explosion before she finally figures out that ending up is just a place to start.

Genres: Romance, Amazon, Chick Lit

278 pages, Paperback

First published September 19, 2013

About the author

At the age of nine, Ellen decided she was going to be a writer after she found her Aunt Nettie's trunk of True Confession magazines and spent untold hours reading the lot, a bag of Munchos potato chips and a frosty RC Cola at her side. Then she became lost in the pesky business of growing up and forgot all about it. Many years later she spotted a confession magazine on the grocery store shelf and began tapping out her own stories which were a joy for her to have published. Ellen now spends her day creating happily ever afters for The Wild Rose Press.
Ellen currently makes her home in the mountains of West Virginia with her son and their large extended family of kitties. A city transplant, Ellen is constantly amazed at the solitude of the woods, the complete lack of neighbors and the incredible variety of wildlife, that she'd previously only glimpsed in nature films, strolling by her very own deck.
When not writing, Ellen enjoys reading, cooking, gardening and is hopelessly addicted to Lay's Classic potato chips.

Reviews

[Cici · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really quirky story. Had to skim large portions. But enjoyable!