Three Days on Mimosa Lane

Written by Anna DeStefano

Narrated by Janet Metzger

Book Two in the #1 bestselling, award-winning Seasons of the Heart series.

Don’t miss recurring characters in Love on Mimosa Lane and the #1 bestselling Echoes of the Heart series: Here in My Heart, Let Me Love You Again, Christmas on Bellevue Lane, and His Darling Bride.

One day can change your life forever… Three days can change a painful past into a beautiful tomorrow…

Once, Sam Perry had it all. A loving marriage, an amazing job she adored as a preschool teacher, and a beautiful home. She was safe, happy and secure.

Then the unthinkable happened…

Watching his once carefree wife withdraw into herself was almost more than Brian Perry could handle. The only thing that kept him going was knowing that he loved her more than life itself. Moving her out of New York to Chandlerville, a small, quiet suburb of Atlanta, felt right. Anything, to get her away from the memories of the buildings, and her world, crashing around her.

Now, two sons and many years later, Sam cherishes the new life on Mimosa Lane that Brian built for them.

Until lightning strikes twice…

Called a hero by her small community, Sam feels more like a coward than ever. Instinct draws her into an altercation at her children’s school—an instinct that also drives her away from the warm cocoon of her family.

Brian refuses to lose his wife again. He agrees to give her the space she asks for, but he soon realizes space isn’t something they and their children can afford. He knows their love can still conquer all. But this time he’ll need their entire community to help him win his wife back.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Jul 23, 2013
• ISBN: 9781480531802

Anna DeStefano

AnnaDeStefano brings to life heartwarming, emotion-packed stories about community, family and second chances. Her award-winning, nationally bestselling small-town romances spotlight family, friendships, and the forgiveness that nurtures her characters’ dreams…as they explore the issues all contemporary family face. Anna’s imagination is forever inspired by our ability to claim an unlimited and exciting future—by first facing and overcoming the setbacks of the past. She’s the author of more than twenty-seven books, including the Echoes of the Heart and the Mimosa Lane novels, all set in Chandlerville, Georgia, and her Atlanta Heroes series. Look for her other titles featuring the reader-favorite Dixon family: Here in My Heart, Let Me Love You Again, His Darling Bride, and Book Three of the Seasons of the Heart series, Love on Mimosa Lane. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Anna’s lived in the South her entire life. Her background as a care provider and adult educator in the world of crisis and grief recovery lends itself to the deeper psychological themes of every story she writes. A wife and mother, she currently writes in a charming northeast suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, not all that different from her characters’ beloved Chandlerville. She is also a workshop and keynote speaker, a writing coach, and a freelance editor. Get to know Anna at annawrites.com/blog and the Anna DeStefano: Author page on Facebook, where she shares her inspirations, her challenges, a healthy dose of honest optimism, and tidbits about upcoming projects.

Reviews for Three Days on Mimosa Lane

[courtney_chance-1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

so far I liked this book. But im going to go and read the first book because I feel a bit lost going to see of that will help. then ill reread this book and review! but I do recommend book 1 first

[pamelabarrett · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I would have trouble suggesting this as a stand alone book—it would have been better if I had read the first book. As it is, I had problems emotionally connecting to the main characters, Samantha and Brian, a married couple with two boys who live on Mimosa Lane in Chandlerville. The mother Sam was a teacher close to ground Zero during 9-11, and for 12 years she has struggled to get her life back to normal. The dad Brian has done everything he can to keep her and the family together; thinking that in time it will be okay. Then a shooting at their sons’ school sends them and the whole community spiraling out of control: exposing cracks in their perfect-from-the-outside lives. This should be a great page turning story, but I felt something was missing. There are rough transitions around the dialog, not enough dimensions in the characters, and very little lightness to offset the darkness, and also over analyzing of the characters feelings. There is also an inconsistency in how Sam reacts to situations which maybe the author’s intent to show the depth of her suffering, but to me it came off jarring; stopping the flow of the story. As a reader I needed time to discover what the people were feeling and to not be told the “why” of what they were feeling. Still the last few chapters make the story come alive. 3 stars.