Under the Blue Moon

✍ Scribed by Joan Schweighardt

• Book ID: 111649558
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 113 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781947044357
• ASIN: B0C2LFG32N

✦ Synopsis

When Lola, a dog trainer/groomer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, crashes her car near a homeless shelter, she lands amid a crowd of well-wishers eager to help her yet transfixed by the sight of the guy who broadsided her running from the scene pursued by police. Amid the drama, the pain, the noise, and her own confusion, a man concealing something—a gun? a bomb?—under his shirt catches her eye. She has no idea that the “terrorist” is Ben, a former architect intent on ensuring himself and his eighteen-year-old cat, Siggy, a good meal and a safe spot to sleep—away from the ledge where he lives under an overpass with two other homeless guys.
The shock of Lola’s brush with death forces her to confront an old grief, sending her on a hunt for a second chance at a meaningful life. Ben yearns to find a job and get back on his feet (thereby regaining both his dignity and his daughter’s love). Their individual pursuits put them on parallel paths that offer not only chance encounters with each other but glimpses into the mysteries of luck, love, art, compassion, and what it means to be human in difficult times...M.F