"Like a Song is now my favourite book by Susan Rodgers. Her unique storytelling style weaves elements of music and location with the dynamics of human relationships. At the end of the book, I was left wanting more."
Synopsis
Like A Song is a gripping drama about home, family, and sacrifice. Country music superstar Dallas White’s world is rocked to the core when he gets word of his older brother Dale’s suicide. He travels to his childhood home to help his parents navigate their grief. When four-year-old Hunter lands in the middle of the chaos, Dallas is thrown. Hunter is Dale’s son, but he’s a mystery, the result of a longstanding affair.
Hunter is lonely and silent. His Mi ‘kmaq mother, Maria, is missing. Dallas, with the help of his security buddy, Matt, searches for her. Finding Maria unleashes a decades-old secret - just after high school, Dale lured a couple of bullies away from Dallas. Dale was violently assaulted. Scarred and broken, he embarked on a double life by marrying one woman but carrying on a relationship with Maria, Hunter’s mother, a woman who understood his pain.
As kids, Dale was always Dallas’s protector. Yet over the years the brothers rarely connected. Gut wrenching guilt almost slays Dallas when he learns the truth of Dale’s sacrifice.
Learning that Maria was the rock Dale needed to help him face each day helps Dallas reconcile Dale’s secret life and the appearance of young Hunter. Dallas begins to see his own life through a new lens, one that brings his wife and his grieving parents more fully into his fold. Dale’s life and sacrifice will not be in vain. Dallas will choose to adopt Hunter and raise him as his own.
Genre: Feature Drama
Status: Feature script / Seeking production partners
Testimonials
- Anne Roberts
"Susan wrote the characters beautifully, and they are so realistic that it is hard not to feel the emotions they endure throughout the novel. This book is the best one that I have read in both the Drifters Series and Dallas White Series, and that is saying a lot because the others were really great as well. This book is a must-read for everyone!"
- Kendra Pidgeon
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