{"id":81764,"date":"2025-07-18T13:18:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T17:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=81764"},"modified":"2025-07-18T13:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T17:18:48","slug":"book-feature-lifes-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/book-feature-lifes-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Book Feature:<\/strong> Life\u2019s Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Susan Amond Todd, Author<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-81766\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Book-Feature-1-Lifes-Surprises-COVER-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"32\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-81766\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Book-Feature-1-Lifes-Surprises-COVER-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"320\" \/>The newest book in Susan Amond Todd\u2019s fictional<em> The Life<\/em> series continues events in protagonist Rebekah Hayward\u2019s life in the Blue Ridge Mountains. \u201cMy inspiration for my books is the ordinary woman who has no idea how extraordinary she really is,\u201d says Amond Todd. \u201cRebekah was just a person in my mind to start out with. Her life evolves just as real life happens and evolves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although readers can pick up her story in this the second book in the series, Amond Todd recommends reading the first book, <em>Life\u2019s Fortune<\/em>, for the background on Rebekah\u2019s life. The series will conclude with the third and fourth books, <em>Life\u2019s Blessings<\/em> and <em>Life\u2019s Journey<\/em>. The series will delight readers who enjoy books about \u201cgood people, love, life, family and friendships,\u201d Amond Todd says. \u201cMy characters rise above the situations in life that we all face which ultimately make us who we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like Rebekah and other characters in her novels, Amond Todd is a Wisconsin native who moved to the South. \u201cI personally love Asheville and the mountains, feeling it a good place for Rebekah to start a new life far from the old one in Wisconsin,\u201d she says. \u201cI love Wisconsin, but I also love North Carolina and the South where I\u2019ve lived for 40 years and I enjoy being able to share two places that live in my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Life\u2019s Surprises, <em>May 2025, fiction, paperback, $16.95, by Susan Amond Todd, and published by Warren Publishing, Rock Hill, SC. 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