• “Humor and poignancy go hand in hand in Sharon Potts’s latest, GOODBYE NEVERLAND. You can’t help but laugh out loud on page one when Potts’s forty-something protagonist, Wendy Wright, shares wry observations while lying spread eagle on the examining table in the gynecologist’s office. Yet that doctor’s visit is a watershed moment for Wendy, who begins to question the choices she made years before to forego a promising career and devote her energies instead to raising her family. No longer sure of her purpose in life or her value to family and society, Wendy decides to reenter the workforce, only to set off a chain of events – some humorous, some heartbreaking – that will leave the reader rooting for her all the way to the very end.” — Julie Compton, author of TELL NO LIES and RESCUING OLIVIA

If you’ve ever been a mom, or a daughter, or a wife…sometimes you just feel like flapping your wings and saying goodbye to Neverland. (Don’t ya?)

Wendy Wright, a stay-at-home mom, has a fairy-tale existence with three terrific teenage kids, a handsome husband, and a comfortable upscale lifestyle. She’s even won second place in the ‘Warmest Hearth in Our Hometown’ competition and makes a killer chili. But Wendy worries about finding fulfillment “after the kids have gone off to college” and decides it’s time to step off the ‘Mommy Track’ and venture out of Neverland. Despite her family’s misgivings, she takes a temp job that’s well beneath her abilities as a one-time successful MBA. But before long, hyper-competent Wendy is practically running things at the poorly managed company. Unfortunately, things aren’t so great at home. The kids are getting into trouble, Wendy’s widowed father has come to live with them, and her husband has lost his job and dignity in his own mid-life crisis.

Wendy feels the crush of the sandwich generation as she tries to juggle work, family and a marriage that’s fast unraveling. But Wendy’s not about to give up on her family, the company…or herself.

Goodbye Neverland will make you laugh and cry. But mostly you’ll be standing up and cheering for the moms of the world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Sharon Potts is the award-winning author of IN THEIR BLOOD and SOMEONE’S WATCHING, suspense novels about ordinary people in extraordinary situations set in South Florida, and SOUTH BEACH CINDERELLA, a romantic comedy. Her work has received numerous awards including the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Award for best mystery/suspense novel, as well as a starred review in Publishers Weekly. A former teacher-turned-CPA-turned-business-exec-turned-writer, Potts isn’t good with boundaries. She loves writing about people, relationships, and families, and is as comfortable putting her characters in tense, suspenseful situations as in unpredictable humorous ones. Because after all—isn’t that what life’s all about?

Entertainment Weekly called Sharon Potts an author who looks like she plans “to stick around for a while.”

Someone’s Watching

by Sharon Potts