Tilsy & Hank

A COMPLETE WORK: Tilsy spent thirty-nine years of her life in a loveless, abusive marriage. Now that he’s dead her life can begin for real. Her only priority is to do things that feel good and make her happy. A pretty little house all her own in a new town seemed like a perfect match. Then Hank comes into her life promising a loving and hopeful future. He takes her hand as they walk and talk at sunset. It feels good. But his wife’s mysterious death and his confusing and mixed signals send Tilsy running, roaming the country looking for the perfect place to call home. She’s not running from, she’s running toward she tries to tell herself.
From Virginia to Florida to Dallas and on, Tilsy drives her 1998 Cadillac she named Delbert with Oliver at her side. A silver toy Schnauzer and her best friend, she and Oliver search for the one place where happiness and feeling good coexist--Home.
Their adventure turns tragic when a gunman runs into her and everything changes. Until then she didn't realize how vulnerable and unprepared she is to handle unknown places and people who don’t keep their promises.
And now she and Oliver are homeless for real and there’s nothing in her future but endless highways, an frozen heart, and no one who cares whether she lives or dies. Home is a place she may never find.