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HAPPY NEWS!

My new book, “Ten Kids, Two Lemon Pies, and a Miracle,” is available to pre – order. E-book now, and paperback on September 8th.

I so, so (very much) hope you like it.

It’s the second book in the Deauville Drive series. Here’s the short and sweet summary, below.

Well, sort of short…Actually, not so short. If you need a book to relax and laugh with, here ya go.

Here’s the link:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=ten+kids%2C+two+lemon+pies+and+a+miracle&crid=3PQMH2UWWN4F6&sprefix=ten+kids%2C+two%2Caps%2C204&ref=nb_sb_ss_p13n-expert-pd-ops-ranker_2_13

And here’s a little, well, a LOT, of information about Book Two in the Deauville Drive Families series.

Inspired by Cathy Lamb’s childhood, the amusing adventures of the Rossi and O’Brien families continue in Book Two of the Deauville Drive series.

1979. Deauville Drive, Huntington Beach, California. Ten kids, a singing mermaid, hundreds of pies, and a body in the kitchen.

Jesse O’Brien, twelve-years old, announces to her stricken mother, Annie, that the motionless man looks “pregnant” and may not be breathing as he lies corpse-still on the laminate floor. Annie clocked him with her favorite red pie pan which is now, sadly, cracked into tiny pieces.

Jesse knows that her mother will dearly miss the perfect pie pan, but the pregnant looking man, a sneaky friend of Annie’s weasel-face soon to be ex-husband deserved it, as he had angrily thundered through their screen door like a dump truck and Annie had protected them both.

Unfortunately, Annie is frazzled and upset. Clocking a man had not been on her day’s agenda! It had not been on her list of things to do!

Furthermore, there had been no sign of this upcoming calamity. Why, there were freshly baked apple and peach pies on the table, along with a Ball jar full of roses, with hummingbirds whizzing around and birds chirping on a fine blue afternoon.

With five kids, an upcoming divorce, a full-time job waitressing at Robby’s Big Boy, and a growing pie business, Jesse knew that her mother had enough on her plate. Falling in love with Vietnam veteran Tommy Rossi, who lives next door in a sprawling white house on an old orange orchard with his five kids offered up a sweet, if sometimes flustering, complication.

And now this! A body in their pretty yellow kitchen!

As Porky, the talking parrot, declares, “I want a beer!” and “I’m a cat!” Jesse and her close-knit family try to navigate a life that has been recently turned upside down and shaken.

The hilarious cast of Deauville Drive returns with quirky neighbors, a friendly stripper, and Liliana the singing mermaid, the one who brings peace and joy to all – unless she’s scaring the wits out of Annie’s almost-ex-husband with a high-pitched C note blast, right in his ears.

Whew.

“Ten Kids, Two Lemon Pies, and a Miracle,” will be available SOON, so very soon, to purchase, if you are so inclined.

It is Book Two in the Deauville Drive Series. Book one is already out and titled, “Ten Kids, Two Lovebirds, and a Singing Mermaid.”

Yes, you definitely need to read book one before book two so there is no confusion or bafflement.

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I want you to have fun and funny books to read this summer.

My gift to you.

Cathy

Julia’s Chocolates

No Place I’d Rather Be

10 Kids, Two Lovebirds, and a Singing Mermaid

Ruthie Deschutes O’Hara Has Ulterior Motives

Link to all my books: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cathy+lamb&crid=2ADOMSOK2DSV3&sprefix=cathy+lamb%2Caps%2C216&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

First, though, I had to find a new dress, oh woe is me.

Why? Because somehow my one “fancy wedding dress” had shrunk, on its own volition, without my permission, in my closet, and now I could hardly get the zipper up. In fact the zipper got stuck a little above my waist. My waist!

I envisioned yelling at Innocent Husband to run upstairs zippity-quick for my clothing emergency. I would suck my stomach in with all my might, ask him to put his foot on my buttocks, then yank the zipper up to my neck. It would be a marital moment.

I then envisioned my waist sucked in tight, like I was in a whale bone corset of olden yore.

I wouldn’t be able to breathe or talk, my lungs flattened in my suffocating dress, and I would have to mime to Innocent Husband to yank the zipper back down lickety split.

He would look at me curiously and say, “Why is your face turning red, honey? Why are you hitting yourself on the back?”

Then he would think – in a panic – that I was choking and he would, intending to be a helper, whack-whack me on the back between my shoulder blades.

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I still sometimes play outside with friends, I don’t climb trees because I will undoubtedly fall off, or break a branch with my buttocks, and if I start cartwheeling, I will throw my back out. But I still read books. And I write them.

These e-books are on sale for $2.99 for a short and sweet amount of time. Have a happy, book-filled summer.

This makes sense to me.