Autumn Falling

(Mainstream Fiction) Novelist Cassandra Latham is determined to cling to her forties, that final hurrah before a woman slips over the abyss into fifty. But holding on isn't going to be easy, not with mourning her mother's recent death and trying to kick-start her literary career after a two-year spell of writer's block. As Cassie edges toward the bottomless pit of mid-life angst, a journal written by her Revolutionary War ancestor may just help her connect the past to the present and make peace with her future. With a touch of humor, Cassie copes with monumental change--from her daughter and only child rushing into marriage to being uprooted from her ancestral Vermont home--to finally acknowledging that the invention of polyester stretch pants was a darn good idea after all. Cassandra Latham strives to survive this pivotal passage, a time when autumn falls in every woman's life...