After
the Pain by Adrienne Thompson
About
The Book:
Genre: African American Women’s Fiction/Edgy
Inspirational Fiction/African American Romance
Release Date: Jan. 12, 2016
Blurb:
Barely grasping on to her sanity due to past trauma
and unhappiness, LaVonda Ingram leaves her home in search of peace and finds it
in the love of a beautiful man. But will she be able to hold on to the healing
and peace his love provides?
This is book one of the Latter Rain series—stories of
women over forty finding love.
Tagline: “After the Pain, she needed peace. She found it in his
love…”
Book Excerpt:
It
smelled like rain the day I lost my mind.
As
a matter of fact, the scent of rain clung to the air like an unfulfilled
promise until the sun set. I spent that day, the entire day, sitting on my
front porch, staring at nothing in particular. I can’t say I was deep in
thought because I wasn’t. As a matter of fact, all that seemed to fill my head
was static—white noise. It was as if someone had flipped the switch in my head
from on to off.
I
just sat there and rubbed my hand over my freshly-cut hair, the hair I’d had
cut because I just didn’t have the desire to keep it up, to go the beauty shop
every week like I had in the past. I didn’t eat or drink anything. I didn’t use
the toilet. I didn’t answer the phone when it rang. I didn’t smile or return
the mailman’s hello. I didn’t wave when my neighbor greeted me. I didn’t utter
a word or move a muscle until the sun began its daily descent. And once the
moon took its place in the sky, I stood from my seat, walked out into my yard
and fell to the ground. Pressing my face into the grass, I cried for the rain,
begged for it to stop playing around and go ahead and pour down on me. In my
mind, the rain would make things better, maybe water down some of the pain. I
writhed on the ground, pulling up handfuls of grass until my tears dried and
transformed into soft wails.
“LaVonda?
You all right?” my neighbor, Bunny, shrieked when she stepped outside her house
and saw me. What a dumb question that was. I was rolling around on the ground
begging for rain, wasn’t I? Of course I wasn’t okay. And then I saw the worried
expression on her face and the ugly dress on her body and all I could do was
laugh. I laughed so hard that I started to cry again.
Link
to Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/hSwfVQ75dc8
Link
to Book Soundtrack: http://ow.ly/X3mgH
Purchase
Links:
Kindle: http://amzn.com/B01AHWOI6W
Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01AHWOI6W
Amazon Canada: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01AHWOI6W
Amazon Australia: http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B01AHWOI6W
Nook: http://ow.ly/X35B4
Author
Bio:
Adrienne
Thompson has worn many titles in her lifetime–from teenage mother to teenage
wife to divorcee to registered nurse to author. This mother of three young
adults currently resides in Arkansas where she writes and publishes her stories
from the soul… for the soul, full time. Adrienne writes stories about
brokenness, healing, and redemption, because she has traveled those roads
herself.
You can connect with her at:
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/A_H_Thompson
Pinterest:
http://www.pinterest.com/ahthompsn/
Thank
you!!
Thanks for having me!!
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