Wetherton - excerpt from 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Entry

History (noun) - A narrative of events; story. Jillian Garrett is passionate about history and its preservation. But after ten years at the Wetherton Historical Foundation, in tiny Wetherton, Connecticut, her zeal has lost its zing. Is it the quirky New Englanders or small town life that has zapped her enthusiasm? Maybe it's her non-existent social life or the fact that she spends more time fundraising than she does preserving. Either way, life certainly isn't turning out as she planned. It might be time for a fresh start in Manhattan, where money and single men seem unlimited in supply. Her bags are almost packed when she "meets" Lady Jane Rochester. Can an octogenarian aristocrat reignite Jillian's spirit and help her solve a centuries-old mystery about the town's greatest patriot? Perhaps. Because Lady Jane has just installed Internet access for her new computer, and a world of possibilities is suddenly at her fingertips. But is the world ready for Lady Jane? Their overseas, online friendship is a welcome distraction as the bulldozers of progress and the revisionists of history come crashing into Jillian's Wetherton, and the madness of the world-wide-web comes calling for Jane. Wetherton is a delightful twist on the story of friendship between two very different women, on the notion that history is set in stone, and the reality that two people can always look at exactly the same thing and see something entirely different.