Charleston Green by Stephanie
Alexander
Paperback, 353 pages
Published April 14th 2020 by Bublish, Inc.
Genre: Mystery, Womens Fiction
If Tipsy
Collins learned one thing from her divorce, it's that everyone in Charleston is
a little crazy--even if they're already dead.
Tipsy, a gifted artist, cannot ignore her nutty friends or her vindictive
ex-husband, but as a lifelong reluctant clairvoyant, she's always avoided dead
people. When Tipsy and her three children move into the house on Bennett
Street, she realizes some ghosts won't be ignored.
Till death do us part didn't pan out for Jane and Henry Mott, who've haunted
the house for nearly a century. Tipsy's marriage was downright felicitous when
compared to Jane and Henry's ill-fated union. Jane believes Henry killed her
and then himself, and Henry vehemently denies both accusations. Unfortunately,
neither phantom remembers that afternoon in 1923. Tipsy doesn't know whether to
side with Jane, who seems to be hiding something under her southern belle
charm, or Henry, a mercurial creative genius. Jane and Henry draw Tipsy into
their conundrum, and she uncovers secrets long concealed under layers of good
manners, broken promises and soupy Lowcountry air. Living with ghosts, however,
takes a toll on her health, and possibly even her sanity. As she struggles to
forge a new path for herself and her children, Tipsy has a chance to set Jane
and Henry free, and release the ghosts of her own past.
My Thoughts… Charleston
Green is a fun book. Tispy is a
character that I found intriguing. She
lives a life full of chaos and is doing her best to keep it together. She moves into a haunted house, is divorcing
her husband, and raising her three children.
I love how she interacts with ghosts and the affects that they have on
her. She takes everything in stride,
doing her best to continue living a happy life.
I was in need
of a book that would make me smile, make me laugh, and make me need to keep
reading. Charleston Green is just that
book. I picked up this book not quite
sure what I was getting into and quickly realized that I loved what I was
reading. Tipsy was unique and
real. Jane and Henry Mott, the ghosts,
kept me wondering what had really happen to them. Tipsy’s need to help them move on showed
that she was willing to put her own health on the line to help others.
Stephanie
Alexander wrote a book for those looking for a fun, quirky mystery to
solve. The characters are fun, the
story flows easily and quickly, and the mystery is unique. I recommend picking up your own copy.
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Meet Stephanie Alexander… Stephanie Alexander grew up in the suburbs of
Washington, DC. Drawing, writing stories, and harassing her parents for a pony
consumed much of her childhood. After graduating from high school in 1995 she
earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the College of Charleston,
South Carolina. She returned to Washington, DC, where she followed a long-time
fascination with sociopolitical structures and women's issues to a Master of
Arts in Sociology from the American University. She spent several years as a
Policy Associate at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), a
think-tank focused on women's health and economic advancement.
Stephanie embraced full-time motherhood after the birth of
the first of her three children in 2003. Her family put down permanent southern
roots in Charleston in 2011. She published her first novel, The Cracked
Slipper, in February 2012. The first printing of the series sold over
40,000 copies. The Cracked Slipper made multiple appearances
on Amazon's fantasy bestseller lists, and peaked at #11 in all genres.
Stephanie has appeared on local and national media, been a contributor on many
writing blogs and in writing magazines, and regularly joins with book clubs for
discussions of her work.
In addition to her personal writing, Stephanie returned to
the College of Charleston as an Adjunct Professor of Sociology, and launched
her freelance ghostwriting and editing business, Wordarcher, LLC. She has
ghostwritten dozens of books, from novels to memoirs to academic theses.
Beginning in the Fall of 2015, as a single working mother, she attended law
school on a full academic scholarship, earning her juris doctor with honors
from the Charleston School of Law in December, 2017.
She currently practices family law in Mount Pleasant, South
Carolina, the Charleston suburb that is the setting of her latest novel, Charleston
Green. Her personal experience rebuilding her life after divorce inspires
both her legal work and her fiction. She published the second edition of The
Cracked Slipper and its sequel, The Dragon Choker, in
early 2020. The series is now complete with the release of final book in the
series, The Glass Rainbow, in April 2020.
Her award-winning first Southern fiction novel, Charleston
Green was released in April 2020, and immediately hit the Amazon
Bestsellers List, debuting as the #3 New Release in Southern fiction, and the
#8 Southern Fiction bestseller overall. Charleston Green is
the 2020 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Silver Medalist for Paranormal Fiction.
Stephanie and her husband live in the Charleston area with
their blended family of five children and their two miniature dachshunds,
Trinket and Tipsy. She is represented by Stefanie Lieberman of Janklow &
Nesbit Associates, New York, NY.
