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The Association
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The security of Sam Bells gated community is jeopardized when a neighbor dies under bizarre circumstances. Then there is a grotesque discovery in the root cellar of an abandoned abbey located within the community. What changed the quiet streets of the Glenn Abbey Homeowners Association to a place of fear? Could it have something to do with the escalating battle over rule enforcement and civil liberties that began as a small disagreement between Sam and the association and became a tangle of deception? Or could a chilling secret from association board member Patty Lippets past explain the change and her hatred of Sam and friends on Carousel Circle? What did anyone know about her really, and why was she trying to silence them?
As the truth emerges, association rules collide with residents in a freedom versus security dispute. Sam, his wife Alba, and their friends on Carousel Circle decide to fight the association over this issue. Once this decision is made, their lives zigzag from uproarious protest demonstrations to media involvement, hair-raising escapes, murder, and a make-or-break trial.
Even though Alba knows the odds of defeating the powerful association are against them, Sams feisty attorney wife agrees to represent Sam and friends in the pending trial. Meanwhile, Patty Lippet lurks in the boardroom and streets of Glenn Abbey and decisions are made which lead to danger for Sam and his neighbors and ultimately places their lives in the balance.
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PublisherAuthorHouse
Release dateOct 2, 2012
ISBN9781456760458
The Association
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Pam Sutton

Born in Sioux City, Iowa, Pam Sutton has resided in Southern California for most of her life. She graduated from Arizona State University where she studied literature, drama, and speech. Pam lived in Jamaica for a while and taught in one of the island's rural high schools. Her poetry has appeared in the small press world and in a book of poetry entitled, "Nature, Me, and Other Notions." Pam's interest in individual civil liberties, especially freedom of expression, prompted her to write The Association. In this novel she addresses the challenges facing homeowners associations and their struggle with freedom versus security issues. Pam's two sons live in Central California and she lives in Cherry Valley, California where she is devoting full time to writing.

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