Two page synopsis

Two page synopsis for Oh, Home at Last

Oh, Home at last is about a sweet romance rekindled after twenty years. Elizabeth (Liz) Levine, renowned writer and therapist at 36 finds herself with a broken heart. She has lived her life healing others, but has been looking for love in all the wrong places after moving away from her sweet-heart Edward Forrester twenty years earlier. In Liz’s heart she compares everybody to Eddie. Twenty years later, Liz reconnects with Ed 36, a New York City lawyer through a late night email.

Their reunion is complicated by Ed’s girlfriend and Ed’s father Ted is dying of cancer. Liz believes she can help heal Ted and maybe heal her own broken heart with a journey back to Michigan and Ed. Ed attempted to forget about Liz. He was very blunt in his return email writing, “Don’t fall in love with me, I have moved on.” Ed neglects to write that he called out Liz’s name while he made love with his girlfriend Katie shortly before Liz’s email.

Oh, Home at Last, opens with a heart felt goodbye between these teen lovers. Lizzie’s Mom and Dad decide to move back to Denver, Colorado from Cove, Michigan. The economy turned sour in Cove for accountants. We find Lizzie crouching in a tree, tearing up remembering her best buddy Eddie. Lizzie’s first experience of Eddie is of his face smeared with mud and him shoving a slimy frog named Herman down her shirt. They were both five. By the end of the day, they were fast friends. They learned to read, ride bikes, cars, dance and learn how to kiss with each other. By the age of fifteen, their friendship deepened into a sweet kind of love.

Sixteen year old Eddie discovers his best friend crying in their favorite tree. He climbs to Liz and embraces her tenderly drying her tears with his kisses. In darkness, they climb down together and make out again, but fear and loss grips Lizzie’s gut and makes her run away into the night and for the next twenty years.

As Liz grows up she becomes a Dominatrix to get through college. She majors in Psychology. Liz learns to dominate men to avoid intimacy. In graduate school, Liz studies Shamanic Healing from Jose Perez, a married Peruvian gorgeous older man (45) from Santa Monica. They travel to the mountains of Peru together to share their healing gifts with villagers as well as a hot steamy bed. It doesn’t last. Liz learns her lesson after she discovers Jose’s “loving tool” inside another student and leaves his house without goodbyes.

She writes about her sexual experiences in her dissertation which is #1 for three months on The New York Times Bestseller’s List. Liz becomes famous, wealthy and a sought after workshop leader on relationships. When she is not jetting setting to Chicago, London or Bombay for a workshop or book-signings she is sleeping with movie stars like Simon Taylor, who knows how to move his “money maker” but not her heart.

Back in Michigan, Liz and Ed rekindle their feelings for each other during the passing of Ed’s father. Ed breaks up with his girlfriend in New York City as Liz flies to Santa Monica to nurse Jose Perez back to health after a major heart attack. After a month separation, both return to Michigan with a better understanding of themselves and what they want. They decide to give each other a month to get reacquainted. They agree to no more distractions or running away. Liz and Ed see through their fantasies of each other built over twenty years and touch each others heart. By the end of this novel, both feel at home and loved and Liz exhales with a full heart to Ed as they lay in each other’s arms, “Oh, I’m Home at Last.”