Lookin' for Love - Paperback

by Susen Edwards (Author)

Based on a compelling and sometimes tragic true story, this novel follows young mother Ava from the go-go bars of the 1970s to the heart of Florida's drug trade to a Kenyan prison to, ultimately, a place of forgiveness, faith, and love through recovery.

Inspired by a gripping true story, Lookin' for Love begins in 1963, when Ava, nineteen and pregnant, marries a violent alcoholic and is disowned by her abusive mother. She bears two sons, leaves her husband, and turns to go-go dancing to provide for her children, using alcohol and drugs to numb herself to the degrading work.

She then meets Mike, a charismatic drug dealer who promises to give her "a beautiful life." They move to Florida and begin working for The Crew, one of the largest drug smuggling organizations in the country. The Crew sends Ava and Mike to Kenya to find farmers to grow marijuana--but while they're there, their home is raided, they're charged with international drug smuggling, and Ava is sentenced to serve time in a Kenyan prison.

What will it take for Ava to find freedom, faith, and love?

Author Biography

Susen Edwards is the founder and former director of Somerset School of Massage Therapy, New Jersey's first state-approved and nationally accredited postsecondary school for massage therapy. During her tenure she was nominated by Merrill Lynch for Inc. magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year Award. She is currently a full-time writer, and secretary for the board of trustees for Middlesex Public Library. She is the author of Doctor Whisper and Nurse Willow, a children's fantasy, and two adult novels, What a Trip, and Lookin' for Love. Her articles have appeared on Residence11.com, BooksByWomen.org, and DIYMFA.com. Susen's first love is memoir. She has facilitated a Memoir Writers group that has met monthly at the Middlesex Public Library since 2017. A Hunterdon County native, born and raised in Whitehouse Station, Susen now lives in Middlesex, New Jersey with her husband, Bob, and her two fuzzy feline babies, Harold and Maude.