Things Are Going to Slide

This upcoming novel, set in south Alabama, features Marilee Carson Cooper.  Marilee, eight and half months pregnant and director of a clinical legal aid program at Alabama Southern University law school, discovers, within a matter of hours, that her first love -- who broke her heart -- has been chosen for the endowed law school chair she covets, that her emotionally solid, always reliable mother is leaving town, with no set plans to return, and that her adorable four-year-old-daughter, Ellie, may have developmental problems because she can’t hop on one foot.

And, if that isn’t enough to worry about, the law school clinic’s clients are proving more challenging than usual.  One of them -- an unwed teen mom -- is accused of child abuse, while another client’s DNA tests reveal that not only aren’t any of the three men tested the father of the child, but the client isn’t the mother either.

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Love Is Merely a Madness

Best friends Alexa Cunningham and Kat McDonald are enjoying a relaxing trail ride when a freak accident leaves former All-American diver Kat paralyzed. Alexa, desperate to provide Kat the emotional support she needs, is instead slapped with a lawsuit that almost pushes her beloved, tightly knit family into bankruptcy. Reeling from her best friend’s attack, Alexa leaves Carsonville, Alabama, her family, her fiancé Nick, business school and a future in the now struggling family construction company and heads for the Keys where she can hide from everything and everyone and try to forget the past.

While Kat struggles to create a life as a paraplegic, Alexa moves again, this time to Atlanta where she begins anew, without her family, her fiancé, and the career she’d envisioned. She finishes business school, meets and falls in love with the dashing jewelry designer David Lassiter, and becomes an investment banker. Her new life seems perfect until at her hometown engagement party she encounters Nick with his fiancé and Kat in her wheel chair. Alexa begins to question the wisdom of everything she’s done, every choice she’s made since the accident. An unexpected pregnancy only throws her life into further turmoil. When her father’s heart attack brings her back home to Carsonville, Alexa has to face the living ghosts she believed she’d left behind. So begins her quest to make sense of her life, to discover who she really is and what she really wants.

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