Abagail Summers
Biography
I received my Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. My work experience is in Equipment Finance as a Credit Analyst. I reside in my hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina with my husband and two young cutie pies who keep me terribly busy. Blog is located www.growingwthepast.blogspot.com. The author of three novels, Life with a Bird Out the Window, Forgiving the Past, and The Untold Legacy which are sold on Amazon.
The Untold Legacy
The Untold Legacy is told using alternating perspectives between the past and the present.
She had life dangling from a string…all she had to do was grab onto it.
Quinn Anne Douglas moves to Charleston, South Carolina to find a part of herself that she’s been missing. But the further she goes…the more lost she feels. Her family is broken. But as secrets are revealed…so is mending revelation.
Only time and truth can give her back what she’s lost. But will she let it?
Lois Anne Griffin (Quinn’s Grandma) lives in a small town just outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a determined, strong-minded, senior in high school in the year of 1955. Her passion for writing is unmerciful as she will do whatever it takes to not be ignored. At a young age she gets instant success. Her article is published in the New York Times. But life as she knows it…is not that easy. She lives in a society that has limited options for a woman. The future she has laid out for herself is painfully pulled in other directions by the people she loves.
LIFE with a Bird Out the Window
Claire Woodward is at a crossroads. She thought she was happy, a good career, nice apartment, but after she sees a devastating car accident on her way into work she is forced to reexamine her own existence.
When Claire goes to visit the woman hurt in the hospital she soon learns the woman has been battling cancer for seven years. When the two strangers cross paths, over time their connection grows into a beautiful friendship. But as Rose fights for her life, Claire starts to question her own existence.
Sargent Haden is the officer that took Claire’s statement. He’s also Rose’s son. But in the immersive days that follow, they both will be met with choices that pit duty against true love.
FORGIVING THE PAST
Torn between the pain of her past and the future that won’t let her live.
Claire McGuire a divorced thirty-five-year-old workaholic finds herself full of anger after her mother’s unexpected death instead of sadness. She struggles internally so much so that it causes her to collapse, almost having a heart attack. Even with such challenges before her. She ignores the pain of what her past has caused her. She continues to work long hours as her mother did as head of the marketing department with a well-known company Brown and Jones Agency. Pretending everything is fine, she tries to hide the fact that she can no longer deal with her pain by herself. She knows she needs help but is unsure of what to do.
She finds herself drawn to going to church, which is something she’s not accustomed to doing. The church she chooses is her parents old church where they are now buried. Her first visit is awkward and gives her no relief from her pain. The anger within is more than she can handle. She knows she needs a miracle to overcome her grief—so she prays to God.
On one of her visits to her parents church she meets an older gentleman named Joe Bradford who is a businessman. He owns a civil engineering company called Bradford Development. She learns that he too is looking for resolution from living a past of regret. He worked so much to build his company. In the routine of working day and night he lost sight of what it was doing to his family. Only in his old age did he see the damage it had caused. He feels so alone. He never hears from his two children and after his wife died, he realizes he is left with the pain of not being a good father. Overtime they become friends and with twist and turns Claire soon learns they have more in common then she first realizes.
Further complicating her emotional pain, she feels physical pain and suffers a heart attack which is the same thing that took her mom from this world. She is rescued by a stranger. Claire isn’t prepared to fall in love with a stranger, but after their first encounter she finds herself captivated by him in a way she cannot explain. The more she gets to know him, the more she can see something in him she can’t ignore.
But as time passes, she is once again faced with a harsh reality that she’s not in control. Is it too late or will she learn to move forward with forgiveness in her heart and defeat the war within that wants to take her under?