BROKEN FORTUNE
Aly Mennuti
GENRE: Contemporary Women's Romance
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Elizabeth
Sunderland—a forty-three-year-old wife and mother of two teenagers—is the
oldest of five children in a blended family that never quite blended. The only
thing that has held them together is the iron will of their wealthy parents:
Benjamin Sunderland, a venture capitalist, and Kate Bernard, a partner of a
hedge fund. Together, Benjamin and Kate create and rule over a Manhattan
dynasty of which their children each bear their own unique scars.
Elizabeth
has been trying to keep the family together since she was ten years old, hoping
to convince everyone they have more in common than just their fortune. This
stance will be put to the ultimate test when Kate dies with one final request:
that the family travel together to the island of St. John and spread her ashes
in the ocean. However, Kate’s plan to fix the family will involve more than
just a family trip to the sea.
As
the hidden secrets and quiet betrayals built up over thirty years begin to
ripple and crash like the ocean surrounding the sinking family, Elizabeth not
only faces each of her sibling’s personal inflection points—moments that could
lead to reconciliation or ruin—but she has to face her own demons that have
laid dormant. What happens next will shock Elizabeth into recognizing a reality
she had no idea existed.
Excerpt
Two:
“How much money did you get?” Paul drops in, trying not to
seem as outright aggressive as my other siblings but still trying to ferret out
the information.
“It was nothing,” I say, trying to shut this conversation
down.
“Oh, it wasn’t nothing,” Benjamin says. “It was over five
million dollars.”
Everyone at the table looks ready to either spill their
drink, fall off their chair, or turn me upside down to try and shake the five
million out of my pockets.
“Can I have some?” Winnie says, shifting her attention for
the first time this evening from my father to me.
“No,” Benjamin says sternly to Winnie. “Your mother is
giving that back.”
“What about,” Paul says, daring to get between Benjamin and
his money, “if you give us all five million dollars, so Lizzie doesn’t feel so
alone. I mean…I’m sure my mother left something for all of us and Lizzie’s just
came through first.”
“No,” Benjamin says. “Lizzie won’t feel alone when I have it
back. Because none of you are getting any extra money. Everything that was
Kate’s is now mine. That’s what we decided. And upon my death—which should be
noted, won’t be happening anytime soon—you will all receive the entire
inheritance split into five.”
“Wait,” Paul says, clearly upset. “Wait. She’s our mother.
Mine. I’m her son. I mean, no offense to your kids Benjamin, but me…and Julian,
we should get something now. Not have to wait until you die. You’re not my
father.”
Paul’s words visibly cut through Benjamin, like an
unexpected knife in the back. Even I can’t help but wince on his
behalf—considering he’s spent the last thirty-three years trying to convince
Paul he’s a reasonable, viable father. Meanwhile, he’s made not one
corresponding overture in my direction, relegating me to the status of just an
afterthought that will always linger…
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
However, she's always had a desire to express herself creatively and carve out her own role as a writer in a writing family. Finally, upon turning 40 (and with two children hitting their teens and deciding Mom is really uncool and not needed to hang out with anymore) she had the time and head space, to tell her first story.
Broken Fortune is her second novel. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband, Nicholas Mennuti, a novelist and screenwriter and their two children, Charlie and Lilly.
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4 comments:
Thank you for featuring BROKEN FORTUNE today.
Great excerpt and the book sounds good.
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