Before there were blogs, there were journals. And in them we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d write as we really were, not as we wanted to appear. But there comes a day when journals outlive us. And with them, our secrets.<\/strong><\/p>\n Summer vacation on Great Rock Island was supposed to be a restorative time for Kate, who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d lost her close friend Elizabeth in a sudden accident. But when she inherits a trunk of Elizabeth’s journals, they reveal a woman far different than the cheerful wife and mother Kate thought she knew.<\/p>\n The complicated portrait of Elizabeth\u00e2\u20ac\u201dher troubled upbringing, and her route to marriage and motherhood\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmakes Kate question not just their friendship, but her own deepest beliefs about loyalty and honesty at a period of uncertainty in her own marriage.<\/p>\n The more Kate reads, the more she learns the complicated truth of who Elizabeth really was, and rethinks her own choices as a wife, mother, and professional, and the legacy she herself would want to leave behind. When an unfamiliar man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name appears in the pages, Kate realizes the extent of what she didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about her friend, including where she was really going on the day she died.<\/p>\n Set in the anxious summer after the September 11th attacks, this story of two women\u00e2\u20ac\u201dtheir friendship, their marriages, private ambitions and fears\u00e2\u20ac\u201dconsiders the aspects of ourselves we show and those we conceal, and the repercussions of our choices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You can receive an entry for the giveaway by leaving a comment naming your favorite vacation spot (or where you’d like to go on vacation) until 8pm Eastern on Monday June 11th.\u00c2\u00a0 Contest is open to US and Canada.\u00c2\u00a0 The randomizer at Random.org will pick a winner at 11pm Eastern\u00c2\u00a0on 6\/11\/2012.<\/p>\n Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow! It doesn’t look like I’ve held a giveaway since October 2010. Guess I’m overdue for one! In a few more weeks summer will officially start. Would you\u00c2\u00a0enjoy a new beach read which will make you forget the time?\u00c2\u00a0The Crown Publishing Group has sent me a hardcover copy of Nichole Bernier’s debut novel The Unfinished… Continue reading Giveaway of The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D. by Nichole Bernier<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[803,616,617],"class_list":["post-3883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giveaway","tag-giveaway","tag-nichole-bernier","tag-the-unfinished-work-of-elizabeth-d","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3883"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3896,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3883\/revisions\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Unfinished-Works-of-Nichole-Bernier.jpg\" "\\"The")
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