Sunset Park - Paperback

by Dana Mansfield (Author)

We need to talk. This phrase spoken by Ben to his longtime love Laurie changes their lives drastically. He uses those words to springboard his intent to leave her and their childhood neighborhood in Memphis. Sunset Park is just as much engrained in their souls as their horrific childhoods they survived with each other's help.Ben returns to Sunset Park five years later amid the impending festivities of his cousin's wedding. He has an ulterior motive other than walking Jamie down the aisle - he wants to make amends with Laurie. This goal is a delicate one as both of them are fragile from Ben's actions that fateful April night five years earlier. After a scare, they make the complicated attempt to reconcile their relationship and move forward. However, an old mystery resurfaces from their five years apart that threatens not only Ben and Laurie's hopes but also their lives.

Author Biography

Dana Mansfield was born, raised, and still lives in northwestern Iowa. She enjoys the intricacy and problem solving of creating stories and is thankful to have achieved remission from leukemia to have the chance to see her literary dreams come to fruition. She teaches reading to at-risk high school students and spends her time writing, watching cooking and clothing competition shows, and being an overprotective mom to her two cats, Boots and Joey.