A band of optimistic seniors work together to save their historic hotel from the clutches of city hall and its two-faced environmentalists. While meeting the obstacles hands on, they find time to share travel, the arts, games, and dancing . An old lady finds fulfillment. Couples discover their way back home. A young woman finds independence and everyone achieves respect and the joy of castling in Central Florida. Justice can be illusive, but determined seniors prove no one can steal their American Castles.
Julie Eberhart Painter, a native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has seven novels in print. Previously, she worked with nursing homes as a volunteer coordinator and later as a community ombudsman. She spent eighteen years with Hospice of Volusia/Flagler in Port Orange, Florida, and contributed to and edited two of their self-help books.
The World, the Flesh and the Devil, American Castles and Tahitian Destiny are available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Her nonfiction e-book, From the Inside Out, is considered a best seller on the Net. In 2009 and 2010 respectively, Champagne Books published Mortal Coil, Tangled Web and best seller Kill Fee. Paperbacks are available at www.champagnebooks.com and from lulu.com
About Kill Fee. Julie took advantage of her knowledge directing a sanctioned duplicate bridge game to create Kill Fee, a cozy mystery in which her main character inherits fifteen million dollars from her "murdered" uncle.
Julie writes a world travel column for Seniors Today, a senior tabloid. Along with her other six flash fiction stories, "Open Containers" her newest flash fiction story appears on: www.bewilderingstories.com Vol. # 444
Appearing under another name, Julie reviews e-books for a prestigious online romance review site.
