Guide Us Home - Softcover

Thoma, Jesse J.; Frizzell, CF

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1636795331 ISBN 13: 9781636795331

Publisher: Bold Strokes Books, 2024

Synopsis

Nancy and Sam have no intention of playing nice. Each aims to win the bid for the abandoned Narragansett Island Lighthouse, and compromise isn’t in the cards. It’s preservation versus profit, but the lighthouse’s dissatisfied governing board insists on better from both women.

Ironically, a battered old book at the lighthouse just might provide the key to success. Inspiring parallels are discovered in the dog-eared pages: the struggles, dreams—and love—between two Danish women braving WWII’s desperate days, guided by a valiant lighthouse they know well.

The heroic tale could navigate Nancy and Sam to success, if they stop floundering long enough to see love coming to their rescue.

About this title

About the Authors

Jesse Thoma splits her professional time between graduate school and work. She is a project manager in a clinical research lab and spends a good amount of time in methadone clinics and prisons collecting data and talking to people.

Jesse grew up in Northern California but headed east for college. She never looked back, although her baseball allegiance is still loyally with the San Francisco Giants. She has lived in New England for ten years and has finally learned to leave extra time in the morning to scrape snow off the car. Jesse is blissfully married and is happiest when she is out for a walk with her wife and their dog, pretending she still has the soccer skills she had as an eighteen-year-old, eating anything her wife bakes, or sitting at the computer to write a few lines.

A recent telecommunications retiree, CF Frizzell (“Friz”) is the recipient of the Golden Crown Literary Society’s 2015 Debut Author Award for her novel, Stick McLaughlin: The Prohibition Years. Friz discovered her passion for writing in high school and went on to establish an award-winning twenty-two-year career in community newspapers that culminated in the role of founder/publisher.

She credits powerhouse authors Lee Lynch and Radclyffe, and the generous family that is Bold Strokes Books, for inspiration. A lifelong Massachusetts resident, Friz is into history, New England pro sports, and singing and acoustic guitar—and living on Cape Cod, just an hour from Provincetown, with her wife, Kathy. Follow Friz at her website, www.cffrizzell.com, and on Facebook at CF Frizzell.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1636795331
• ISBN 13: 9781636795331
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288