Jackpot

By Anita Renaghan

Tom wants Vi. Vi wants stardom. Sean wants Sarah. Sarah wants out. William just wants to play the lottery. Can these five strangers navigate their twenties and connect on a long drive in the dark?

Before pagers and cell phones, and before Facebook and YouTube even existed, five strangers in Chicago meet in a car on the ride of their life. Vi is a songwriter on the verge of moving to Nashville, and Tom is her silent admirer. Sean is a drunken Irish boy ogling every skirt in the bar, and Sarah is a young, rich socialite trying to avoid Sean's gaze. The four strangers leave Baker's Tap in William's Towncar, caught up in his weekly superstitious quest for purchasing lottery tickets at an old country diner.

On their journey, Tom will try to stop Sean from making obnoxious passes at Sarah while he keeps one eye on Vi. Vi will try not to think of Tom romantically because she has her future planned out and no one can stop her quest as a singer. Sarah will avoid eating while staying aloof to everyone beneath her, and William will try to get to the diner by midnight so that he can buy his lottery tickets in time.

Between arguments and revelations, each of their stories will connect as they privately sort out their pasts. Each of their defenses are lowered long enough for introspection, and if they are lucky, a future that includes a jackpot.

Join these five on the ride of their life, buy Jackpot today!

"Simply stated, Jackpot is group therapy on wheels." – Jennifer Alison, Editor

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kitchen Entertainment
• Release date: Nov 16, 2015
• ISBN: 9780983870043

Anita Renaghan

Writing poems since she learned how to put pencil to paper, Anita Renaghan wrote her first novel in high school. She has worked as bartender, aircraft mechanic, and audiovisual technician in the past two decades, at the same time writing several novels, a screenplay, and hundreds of songs. Using her innate ability to notice patterns of human behavior, she loves a good character study. Anita Renaghan lives with her husband and daughter in the Chicago suburbs.