Her Sense of Place

It was all in the letter her mother left her when she died...the beginning of the end for Elaine, a successful therapist, who had trusted that her mother was a saint. Until now, the hard part had been trying to live up to such goodness.Faced with the shame of her mother's secret past with a dark, shadowy man in a California vineyard, there is nothing for Elaine to do but confront this demon that is threatening her now fragile sense of identity.But she is unprepared for the lure of the land, RJ Carter, the rough-hewn, uncouth, land manager, his beat-up dog, Grit, and the arrival of her troubled granddaughter who needs her more now than ever. Everything changes with three little words: "Hi, Gramma. Surprise."Her Sense of Place is about the barrier that judgment creates between people and how we turn that judgment on ourselves even more cruelly.