Book Promo ‘Falling’ by Dawn Davis

Today I’m
excited to share a book promo of ‘Falling’ by Dawn Davis. ‘Falling’ is the
second book in the Tower Room series and is called ‘a genre-crossing historical
adventure with a time travel twist’.

A worthy
follow-up to her 2015 debut, Falling whisks us back to the summer of 1813 and
the brief American occupation of Queenston where it explores the events leading
up to Laura Secord’s historic walk of June 21.

In this prequel to The Tree of Life, Leo Becker has only recently moved into
the Rose Park mansion at the invitation of his cousin Dilys. He knows nothing,
however, of the strange working of the Tower Room, but that is about to change.

His daughter Francine, a whip-smart Toronto lawyer, is pregnant, and pregnancy
has done nothing to soften the naturally jagged edges of her personality. When
she is hospitalized over concerns with her blood pressure, it appears likely
that Francine, incensed over her forced “incarceration” will soon be dragging
the entire hospital into court. And then there is the strange in utero
behaviour of the baby…

Leo is beside himself with worry and Dilys deems the situation ripe for his
initiation into the mysteries of the Tower Room. With a nourishing soup for
Francine simmering in the kitchen, Dilys takes Leo upstairs for a talk and a
cup of tea.

What happens next is the last thing Leo expects.

Charlotte
lives with her grandfather in a house with a secret: The Tower Room. It is the
one room in which she’s been forbidden to snoop. Charlotte, however, is eleven
years old and has a mind of her own, and when she and her friend Henry hide
beneath the table of the Tower Room one afternoon in May, they overhear part of
a conversation they were not meant to hear and are drawn into an adventure they
could scarcely have imagined. 

Thrown back in time sixty years, they find themselves unwittingly involved in
the imminent disappearance of a family heirloom with a colourful and uncertain
past. But families too have their secrets, and the reasons behind them are
rarely straightforward, and it is unclear what role Charlotte and Henry are
meant to play if they are ever to return to their own time.

A fascinating portrait of Toronto in the spring of 1939, The Tree of Life
explores the nature of family, loss, and what it means to find one’s place in
the world.

Currently
working on the final two books in the series, Dawn Davis is a retired teacher
living in downtown Toronto, on the ravine, with Charlie, her Maine Coon cat. Falling
is Book Two in the Tower Room Series. The Tree of Life, her debut novel, was
published in 2015. 

For more
information about Dawn and her books please visit her the Tower Room series
website.