Book Description

Faith, Family, Frenzy!Three longtime friends explode apart and find their way back to each other in The Winner's Circle, a literary-commercial crossover novel in a genre entitled Boomer Chick Lit that is written to appeal to book clubs.Life in a rural small town can dull the senses. A trio of gal pals-mired in middle age, middle America, and other people's problems-long to escape. When, one of the friends, Bonnie Voss, wins the Boffo Lotto, her circle of friends urge her to lawyer up, invest, and sequester herself. But secrets are inconceivable in small towns, and the clamor for cash withers Bonnie's wallflower soul. It doesn't help that her former boss, the local pastor, is first to beseech funds for his church expansion plans.And so, Bonnie and her beau, Carl Edwards, invite close friends, Jackie and Steve Breeden, to witness their Vegas wedding and honeymoon in Hawaii with endless vagabond beyond. The sky's the limit!Meanwhile, the other gal pal, Fran Blackstone Rankin, the recently retired former high school administrator who married the local pastor, Paul Rankin, have agreed to supervise immature thirty-something son, Brandon Breeden's management of the Breeden Dairy in his dad's stead. The allure of travel is fun for a while-hilarious, in fact. A California trip segment, where Carl introduces Bonnie to his ex-wife and adult kids, proceeds fluidly. However, the Hawaiian honeymoon goes over overboard when a mai-tai-fueled hula performance brings unwanted tabloid and YouTube fame. The ex-wife reads 'The Enquirer' and immediately desires a piece of lottery pie.Bonnie's instant wealth didn't gain immediate status and respect, so her relationship with her travel partners is strained, and-back in Michigan-Fran finds that Brandon doesn't require her reins and her husband, the pastor, can not be dissuaded from his schemes.When the husbands are jailed on the travel foursome's first day in Australia, wanderlust is no longer a romp, and things get complicated when you're halfway round the world, untethered from all you know and love. Life has its consequences¿ and there's no place like home.With your circle of friends.