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Elizabeth Sunderland—a forty-three-year-old wife and mother of two teenagers—is the oldest of five children in a blended family that never quite blended. The only thing that has held them together is the iron will of their wealthy parents: Benjamin Sunderland, a venture capitalist, and Kate Bernard, a partner of a hedge fund. Together, Benjamin and Kate create and rule over a Manhattan dynasty of which their children each bear their own unique scars.
Elizabeth has been trying to keep the family together since she was ten years old, hoping to convince everyone they have more in common than just their fortune. This stance will be put to the ultimate test when Kate dies with one final request: that the family travel together to the island of St. John and spread her ashes in the ocean. However, Kate’s plan to fix the family will involve more than just a family trip to the sea.
As the hidden secrets and quiet betrayals built up over thirty years begin to ripple and crash like the ocean surrounding the sinking family, Elizabeth not only faces each of her sibling’s personal inflection points—moments that could lead to reconciliation or ruin—but she has to face her own demons that have laid dormant. What happens next will shock Elizabeth into recognizing a reality she had no idea existed.
Enjoy an Excerpt
“Dad,” I say, tapping him on the shoulder. “I wanted to ask you something while we’re still alone.”
“What?” he answers, already annoyed before the question passes my lips.
“Did Kate give you any kind of…reason why she wanted us to come here?”
“Elizabeth,” he says. “I told you. She wanted her ashes spread.”
“But I mean…why? Why would she even want to do that? Why wouldn’t she want an actual funeral? Why wouldn’t she want everyone to be there to say goodbye.”
“I can’t answer that for her,” he says. “But maybe she can.”
“How?” I say, more lost than before. “Can you for one second stop being cryptic?”
“She left us all a video to watch together.” He takes his eyes off the path for a second, looks back to see my reaction. “That’s where we’re headed now.”
About the Author 
Aly Mennuti has always had two passions: philanthropy and literature. She satisfied one of those by being an executive at an international nonprofit consulting firm and has helped a diverse range of high-profile clients reach their philanthropic goals.
However, she’s always had a desire to express herself creatively and carve out her own role as a writer in a writing family. Finally, upon turning 40 (and with two children hitting their teens and deciding Mom is really uncool and not needed to hang out with anymore) she had the time and head space, to tell her first story.
Broken Fortune is her second novel. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband, Nicholas Mennuti, a novelist and screenwriter and their two children, Charlie and Lilly.
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This sounds like a great story.
Great excerpt and giveaway. 🙂
This should be a awesome read. Thanks for sharing and hosting this tour.
Thank you so much for featuring Broken Fortune! I hope everyone enjoys reading it as much as I did creating the Bernard-Sunderland crew in all their dysfunctional, messy, beautiful chaos. 🩵🩵🤣
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