The Half-Life Party

Laurel Sinclair has carved out a quiet life for herself in the sleepy town of Sussex, Connecticut. By day she runs a thriving antiques shop, but her night job is an entirely different story. Spurred by a personal ghost experience, Laurel recently added the title of PAI to her resume - Paranormal Activity Investigator.

Her new cable show, Team PAI, is the talk of the town, and her antiques business has never been better. But soon it will be the second Saturday in May, Loser's Day, an annual celebration commemorating the town's historic loss to the British in the War of 1812, which also happens to be Laurel's 41st birthday. For some unknown reason, Laurel has always believed she will live to be eighty-two, making this her half-life birthday, and the party her friends have goaded her into is adding kerosene to the flames of panic.

Out of nowhere, life is pressing in upon her, forty-one years down and forty-one to go. Driven by the pressure of time, Laurel is forced to dredge up some ghosts from her own past, not all of which are easy to leave behind. She becomes obsessed with trying to understand why her grandfather has never kept his promise to contact her from beyond the grave, and launches a life-changing quest to discover what really happens to us when we die.

Riddled with a cast of eccentric New Englanders, including a ghost named George, and a painting Laurel recently acquired that no one seems to like, but everyone wants to own, The Half-Life Party is a comical, yet thought-provoking, race against the ticking clock of time to find peace in life and hope in the afterlife. Because life is full of possibilities ... you just have to go out and look for them.

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Wetherton - "Powered by a diverse trio of endearing and self-empowered women, this delightfully entertaining novel I a highly palatable blend of mystery, historical fiction and (unlikely) romance ... a humorous and deeply poignant novel about friendship, community, honor, and love." - Publishers Weekly

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