I think this novel, my second one, is probably one of my best storytelling novels. One day I recalled an old house that was across the street from where we lived. As I thought about that old house, the muse inside me started working and I sat down to start writing.
As I continued, I allowed the muse to have her way and soon was an entrenched in this story as if someone were telling me. I had so much fun writing this story and allowing my imagination and of course, my muse, to tell such a fantasy that it is one that can be enjoyed by everyone.
The Lewis House Saga
When Amy Lewis learns that she has inherited an old house, she is bewildered. Her sister was given the house they grew up in as well as a sizable inheritance, while she was only given a small amount and the deed to a house she didn't even know about.
And when she sees the house, her heart is broken. She always felt her father blamed her for causing her mother's death at her birth and now she knew she had been right. The old house in its neglected and broken down state would cost a small fortune to repair. It certainly wasn't worth anything in its current condition.
Her Aunt Tillie who had gone to live in a nursing home told her, "There are some things in the attic of your house that you and your sister need to share."
As Amy got permission from her sister, Abigail, to go back to the house and look in the attic, she finds old paintings of her great, great grandparents, an old doll house that she recognized as being a replica of the house she had inherited and some old trunks. Abigail wants no part of any of it and tells Amy to take it all, but just get rid of it.
Amy takes it and moves it to the house that is hers now. As she starts cleaning and trying to fix it up to sell, she hires a landscape company to come take care of the overgrown yard. Surprise after surprise comes as they find a beautiful old fountain in the back yard that has been boarded up, along with flower beds that were overgrown and dead but had been quite beautiful in their day.
The old house also begins to show some more of its secrets as Amy investigates farther. But still she knows it would be to costly to fix it up and decides she will sell.
One of the landscapers is an young man, Jack Murphy, who wants to be an architect and he sees the value of the old house if it was restored and talks Amy into keeping it and he would help her.
Aunt Tillie is quite happy that she has decided to keep it and helps her as well.
Amy works hard on the old house and at the same time, finds out that she is falling in love with Jack. But with her sister, Abigail and her husband, Lawrence, try to intervene in Amy's business with the house and Lawrence's persistence in pursuing Amy, a wall divides the two sisters causing friction and trouble in the family.
Jack restores the old fountain which is magical to Amy as she has discovered the identity of the paintings and that she is a namesake of her great, great grandmother, Ami Lewis, who ascended from royalty.
Just as with the magical fountain, the treasures in the attic bring happiness to Amy and Jack and reveal surprise after surprise - from their wedding day up to the day Aunt Tillie reveals the secrets of the old house.
This is a story of love, determination, inner strength and a bond with family and history. It follows the Lewis family from the turn of the century to present day.
For more information about this novel, which is in limited supply until May of 2012 when it will be republished again, you can visit my website at www.writer43.webs.com
NOTE: Due to several requests, I wrote a sequel to The Lewis House Saga and published The Lewis Family in 2009. It gives more detail about the family and the Lewis House. For more information please visit my website.
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