Women's Intuition: Contemporary Fiction

Lark Summerville’s life has few surprises–and that’s just how she likes it. All she wants is to live out her angst-riddled life in her blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood punctuated by weekly trips to her local parish where Lark is organist and telephone conversations with desperate souls who dial her hotline at 1-777-IPRAY4U. . Then one night Lark’s home is destroyed by a fire forcing her out of her comfortable nest and back to the childhood home she has avoided for years. At Stoneleigh House Lark is surrounded by three very different women: her grown daughter Flannery; her barely tolerable socialite mother Leslie; and Prisma Percy housekeeper and family confidante all of whom believe Lark was widowed years before. . In this circle of women Lark’s carefully constructed existence begins to unravel even as the promise of a new one unfolds. But when her contrite ex-husband shows up longing to assume his role as Flannery’s father twenty years after his desertion Lark finds that she must face her own lies–and her past–before a new life can unfold.