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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