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Good Morning, What's Your Name?

By Victoria Cooke

Elizabeth Waters had accepted her life of chaos living with two hormonal twin daughters, her ancient parents, a moody Navy Seal son who has returned wounded from the war and her cranky Vietnamese live-in couple who provide domestic help. As an Emmy award nominee photojournalist for her documentary, Goodnight, Whoever You Are, Liz is struggling in a down economy. Her talents are many, but her dollars are few. Her husband, Charlie, the Cowboy Preacher, has a functioning ranch an hour from town, but most of the profits are used to feed his growing congregation of dusty field workers and boot-scootin’ cowboys on Friday nights.
Their beautiful historic home in Tulsa is groaning with age and maintenance issues and now her world traveling eighty-five-year-old Aunt Cin has come to visit riding a baby elephant in their front yard. Little did Liz and Charlie know this wouldn’t be a short visit, because Aunt Cin has a heart attack during her stay and no one to care for her but her favorite niece. While recuperating, Aunt Cin meets the new love of her life on line and that calls for a wedding! Liz gets help from her lifelong friends, Glam and Gloria, and much unasked advice from her resident parents.
The entourage spends their divided time between the city and the country with a host of new characters. There are new heartaches with her children, her husband, her mother and her best friend-ex-husband-turned female, Marty. This extremely blended family reflects a sign of the times and Liz’s sense of humor will carry her through the rough spots, along with a loving husband and the grace of God. In Good Morning, What’s Your Name? Liz will make new discoveries about herself and the people she loves and she will be forced to say goodbye to her old life to blaze the trail toward her new one!
 

About The Book

Goodnight, Whoever You Are

By Victoria Cooke

Photographer Liz Greene thought her life was picture-perfect. She’d married her childhood best friend and they had a beautiful little boy. But something was wrong. Had Liz lost her focus? Her husband, Marty, felt different on the inside from how he looked on the outside. In a flash, the marriage was over.

Whether your spouse cheats, dies, lies, wants a change, something different, or simply leaves, it’s out of your control. Liz’s divorce was the death of a dream, and a tragedy that affected everyone involved.

Liz reluctantly gets a divorce (while maintaining a lifelong friendship with Marty), and finds herself a single mom. As she enters the dating world, love comes calling twice: once with a darkly handsome ER physician, and again with his antithesis, the Cowboy Preacher.

Saddled with a mother whose Alzheimer’s confines her to a wheelchair and a father whose Parkinson’s disease makes him a shaky chauffeur, Liz must make decisions she never thought she’d have to face.

Full of surprises, colorful friends, offbeat relatives, and aging parents, Goodnight, Whoever You Are is a story about dealing with life’s unexpected twists and turns with a huge dose of humor and an acceptance of life’s responsibilities with grace and gratitude.

From The Desk of Victoria Cooke

Thank you for taking the time to look through my website.  I wrote the first draft of “Goodnight Whoever You Are” when I was tucking my mother in for the night. They lived with me.  She had Alzheimer’s disease. I told her “goodnight” and she said, “Oh, goodnight…” I thought to myself, “whoever you are” because she didn’t know who I was. That was eighteen years ago.

I wrote this book to keep myself sane. I laughed and cried while writing it. I hope you do the same.
V.C. 
P.S.  Feel free to email me your thoughts after reading it!