Giving the Red Door a Kick Start

Hi, everyone! Today I am excited to announce that I put on my high-heeled boots and gave my indie-publishing career a Kick Start. Literally! My debut book, Kick Start, is now available for your reading pleasure. This contemporary romance/women's fiction hybrid was a 2006 Golden Heart finalist and has finaled in and won numerous writing contests over the years. It also sat, untouched, while I got my younger two kids through high school and into college. Now that the youngest just finished her freshman year (ahem!) I had no excuse not to fulfill my dream and put Kick Start in your hands.

Here's the scoop on Kick Start:

Linda Dowling is ready to shake the dust of her bitter divorce off her boots and Kick Start her life into action. She level sets her children, goes back to college, meets a younger man and starts her life rolling down the post-marriage highway. Until remnants of her old life freeze her new one mid-journey. Friends and neighbors in Linda’s suburban paradise do not approve of any divorce, much less one in their midst. And they certainly don’t approve of Linda’s new love interest.

Linda does not want to care what they think, but she spent the last 20 years trying to fit into Cross Springs society. It would be crazy to turn her back on the life she so painstakingly built–and her ex so abruptly knocked down–for an untried start-up relationship. Or would it? Linda reroutes her journey and decides to make a detour (including side trips to see her hairdresser, her mother, the homicidal Courtroom Barbie who wrecked her marriage and her suddenly psycho ex-husband) to see where else life might take her. All she needs is a hefty dose of courage and a good old-fashioned Kick Start.

Precocious kids, nosy neighbors, church friends, a crazy ex-husband and a younger man love interest. It's a recipe for disaster! I certainly threw Linda lots of curveballs in this story, but also gave her a great sense of humor, some pretty fabulous kids and an exceptional best friend. I hope you'll check out the book and see just how Linda handles all the ups and downs of her new life and figures out how to reclaim her old sense of self.

Happy reading!

Caren Crane
www.carencrane.com

 Available for Kindle -  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CLZ7VAE
Available for Nook from Barnes & Noble -  http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1115247361?ean=2940016757223 
Available at SmashWords - http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/311927