Eileen Goudge

One Last Dance

Oh, gosh, I remember when I was writing One Last Dance – that tickle of excitement that quickly builds when you think, “I’m on to something here.” The concept: On the eve of their 40th anniversary, a seemingly contented wife and pillar of the community, picks up a gun and fatally shoots her husband. She won’t give a reason, leaving it to her three grown daughters to figure it out for themselves. Call it a why-dunnit as opposed to a whodunnit. But I had so much fun with it, the book practically wrote itself. Especially the part about Kitty Seagrave, who owns a teashop called, appropriately enough, Tea & Sympathy, and who stocks it with her own mouth-watering baked goods (what I’d be doing as career if I weren’t writing books). I still regularly hear from readers who want the recipes for those baked goods, many of which can be had in my cookbook Something Warm from the Oven. Though it doesn’t include Kitty’s recipe for country lemonade, which calls for blending whole lemons, pulverized in the blender, with lemon juice, sugar and water. (Just got a message from one of my Twitter pals who made up her own recipe based on my description).

Flash forward fifteen years…One Last Dance, which is no longer in print, is ready…drum roll please…for its encore. I’m releasing it as e-book, available on my website and on Amazon.com., starting the last week in July. Also available for download will be Welcome to Carson Springs, the never-before-published, short-but-sweet novella that is a prequel to my Carson Springs trilogy. I’ll send notice when the two books are online, but in the meantime I just wanted to give you a heads-up, in case One Last Dance Title is a title you missed when it came out or you’d like to read it again.

Then you too will know why she dunnit.

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