Homecoming Synopsis
The following synopsis is intended for the general reading audience only, and is not the same
synopsis prepared for potential agents and/or publishers.
Reluctant beneficiary Hannah Marsh is on a mission: travel to her estranged father’s hometown, pack up his
possessions and sell his property so that she can finally close the door on that chapter of her life. This is
easier said than done because let’s face it, a story where the main character gets to where they are going and
accomplishes the task they set out to do without any hurdles, obstacles or upset apple carts isn’t much of a
story, is it?
In her thirties, Hannah lives a temporary life. She lives in a rented townhouse, drives a leased car, and works
contract positions. Men? Forget it. Any time a man gets close, she finds a reason to call it off. After all, how
could she spend her life with someone who throws like a girl?
Once in Bradstoe Hannah meets people who have known and loved her father Loring all his life. She’d rather
not know anything about him aside from the misguided preconceptions she holds dear but the thing is, once
you learn something you can’t unlearn it. And try as she might,
Hannah can’t ignore the people and things that crop up in the fields
of rural Manitoba.
Like the heavily pregnant woman who tells Hannah that she knew
her father “very well.” Or the knowledge that Loring had been the
one and only witness to his own father’s murder, right there in the
now-collapsed barn, a stone’s throw from the house Hannah sleeps
in. The long-distance lover Hannah is desperate to avoid turns up
in town, a headache in itself, and wouldn’t you know it, he has a
secret.
And Hannah finds it downright impossible to ignore the vengeful
ghost who stalks her property anytime there’s a thunderstorm, and
on the prairies, in the humid heat of July, there are thunderstorms
aplenty.
The following synopsis is intended for the general reading audience only, and is not the same
synopsis prepared for potential agents and/or publishers.
Reluctant beneficiary Hannah Marsh is on a mission: travel to her estranged father’s hometown, pack up his
possessions and sell his property so that she can finally close the door on that chapter of her life. This is
easier said than done because let’s face it, a story where the main character gets to where they are going and
accomplishes the task they set out to do without any hurdles, obstacles or upset apple carts isn’t much of a
story, is it?
In her thirties, Hannah lives a temporary life. She lives in a rented townhouse, drives a leased car, and works
contract positions. Men? Forget it. Any time a man gets close, she finds a reason to call it off. After all, how
could she spend her life with someone who throws like a girl?
Once in Bradstoe Hannah meets people who have known and loved her father Loring all his life. She’d rather
not know anything about him aside from the misguided preconceptions she holds dear but the thing is, once
you learn something you can’t unlearn it. And try as she might,
Hannah can’t ignore the people and things that crop up in the fields
of rural Manitoba.
Like the heavily pregnant woman who tells Hannah that she knew
her father “very well.” Or the knowledge that Loring had been the
one and only witness to his own father’s murder, right there in the
now-collapsed barn, a stone’s throw from the house Hannah sleeps
in. The long-distance lover Hannah is desperate to avoid turns up
in town, a headache in itself, and wouldn’t you know it, he has a
secret.
And Hannah finds it downright impossible to ignore the vengeful
ghost who stalks her property anytime there’s a thunderstorm, and
on the prairies, in the humid heat of July, there are thunderstorms
aplenty.
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