THE MEASURE OF ENOUGH
THE MEASURE OF ENOUGH
Deonna Kay
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GENRE: Psychological Fiction/Women’s Fiction
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BLURB:
Thirty-four-year old social worker, Kacee Robinson, runs a non-profit agency helping women and children move away from bad situations. Kacee moved away from her own bad situation years ago and pledged never to return to her hometown of Glendale, Texas, or to the mother who abandoned her right smack in the middle of her hateful pre-adolescent years—just when she needed her most.
Now it is Kacee’s mother who needs something from her. With the entire town rallying behind the cry, Kacee has a decision to make. She can put aside everything she thought she ever knew about this woman who made a feeble attempt at raising her, return to the town, and conduct the necessary business like the grown-up professional she knows she is. Or she can stand her ground, continuing to struggle with the nagging questions and residual scars of her childhood.
Before she can make a decision, Kacee fears her life may be in danger and a rapid turn of events prompts resolutions that cannot be undone, setting into motion a slide of events as slick as the oil-engendered family from which Kacee was born.
The echoes of the past reach out to her while in Glendale, grabbing on and not letting go as they wind her down a country road through pages of her mother’s journals and twisting her into an unexpected new fate from which she will never be the same.
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EXCERPT
Nobody ever expects to get the one phone call that will change their life. They expect it less to come from a crotchety old biddy regarded as the town gossip. Yet, sitting at my desk at TrueU, the non-profit agency I own, on a perfectly good November day in the perfectly good town of Glendale, Texas, my perfectly good life (okay that part is a lie), but my reasonably mundane life was disrupted by none other than the infamous Edna McIntyre.
Having already dealt with a domestic violence situation and spoken with child protective services over a custody battle—all prior to ten a.m.—I slumped behind my large mahogany desk in exhaustion, head buried in my hands and noted those same fingers to be in desperate need of a manicure. The southern drawl of my assistant Dottie broke through the intercom like the shattering of glass, tearing me out of concentration.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Deonna Kay is a native Texan, the proud mom of a young adult daughter, an over-sized dog, and the fuzziest cat you’ve ever seen. Her passion of writing began as a child and has carried over into her adult life. She is a business owner and loves to travel, particularly to Disney World. If you enjoyed THE MEASURE OF ENOUGH, please visit the author on her website to follow her future endeavors and updates
Website: http://www.deonnakay.com
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/deonnakaybooks
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/writingdreams25
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DTJGWQT9
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Q & A With … Deonna Kay
Tell us about you as a person.
Thank you for having me on the show. I am a middle-aged southern woman from Texas who loves reading, animals, and has a weird obsession with numbers. I enjoy travelling, particularly to Disney World, and I’m living out one of my lifelong dreams of authorship as we speak.
If you could hang out with one famous person for one day, who would it be
and why? If I could only choose one person, I’d have to say Walt Disney. He’s inspired so many generations with his creativity and vision. Long beyond his death, his legacy lives on in the hearts of millions of children and adults and continues to motivate others to harness their inner goodness.
What’s the story behind your latest book?
The Measure of Enough is a story about Kacee Robinson. She’s a thirty-four-year-old social worker from Texas who is struggling with a jaded past and a request to return to her hometown and assist her mother, to whom she credits most of her childhood trauma. As she explores the depths of town whispers and past transgressions, she realizes that everything she thought she knew about her childhood may not be exactly as she remembers. Through the help of her beloved aunt, she unpacks years of memories and finds more than she bargains for while juggling her own dangerous circumstances. In the end, she must decide if she’s written the correct villain to her own story or if she needs to change the ending.
What advice do you have for other writers who want to get the word out
about their latest book? I’d say you need to build your community and start with a newsletter. My newsletter jumpstarted my own building blocks.
List 5 things on your bucket list.
1. Write another book.
2. Visit Paris, France.
3. Visit all the Disney resorts.
4. Retire from my full-time job by the time I’m 60.
5. Write a series.
Any final thoughts?
Thank you for having me today, and thank you to everyone who takes the time to read The Measure of Enough. You will never know what it means to an author to have someone read their book!
