
So this is the book cover! I chose black and white to be a little different. I want people to look among a sea of colorful books and be drawn to my black and white cover. Here is the synopsis:
Love, depression, sadness, guilt, betrayal and sheer happiness, build the emotional roller coaster in An Aspirin for a Heartache. This sassy tale follows four women- best friends and one man, down their separate paths as they attempt to hold on to their hearts, minds and friendships while learning life's lessons.
Essence Carr married her high school sweetheart Michael ten years ago. Her only aspiration in life is to have children and fulfill her image of the perfect marriage, until she receives a phone call from Michael's mistress. Now she has to play a game of tug-of-war between her mind and her heart, and decide which side of the fence she wants to be on.
After a lifetime of hit-and-miss relationships Page Lancaster a snobby ex-pageant girl, ideals on relationships and life are still wrong. She has a meddlesome mother whose shallow views have dominated her entire life. And if that isn't enough she still lives at home, sleeping in the same room she has slept in since middle school. For Page, life has some hard lessons, especially since she’s learning them for the first time while in her thirties. She’s fed up with attracting Mr. Wrongs, but deep rooted scars stemming from being a dark skinned sister have clouded her judgment and vanity becomes a cover up for insecurity leaving her afraid to just be herself.
Jakie Hall, is a no-nonsense, trash talking, hard working, single mother of a teenage son named Tay. After a hope-to-die failed relationship with her baby’s daddy and a few other losers, she’s given up on love and sees men as only as playthings.
“When I finally broke loose from that relationship, there was barely enough of me left to give to Tay, and lord knows he needed me.”
After Tay starts getting into trouble and Jakie looses her good paying job, the walls start to close in on her. With her back against the wall she grabs a bottle of bourbon, some fishnet pantyhose and tries to carve her own way out.
Kyra Tennison, is actively involved in a church that she can’t get her husband to step one foot in. She’s a soccer mom, active in PTA, and dinner is always on the table. But according to her husband the house isn’t all that clean, she still hasn’t dropped the weight she gained from their last child and she could stand to spend a little less money. She's at the end of her rope. Her husband and children are taking her for granted and getting on her last nerve forcing her to question her existence.
“I'm having a hard time trying to differentiate between God not wanting someone for me and the devil trying to destroy what God intends for me.”
With her patience on its last thread, Kyra reaches out for some solitude and it isn’t in the pages of her bible!
He’s a high level engineer, at a top firm, that doesn’t appreciate him, and he’s involved in an extramarital affair that’s getting out of control. When the pain of the affair outweighs the pleasure, Michael Carr is forced to call it off, but is he too late!


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