Downloading The Third Act

Shannon O'Connell is broken. She is sixty-five years old and looks twenty years younger - there's not much that makes her happy. Her partner of thirty years left her for a mutual friend offering only the cliché "I love you, but I'm not in love with you."

Her mother is disappearing before her eyes with dementia. And now, the death of her best friend - Linda - from metastatic breast cancer brings her to her knees. In this dark night of the soul - filled with endings -- she could not have predicted that this moment could be a beginning.

The "Tribe," Linda's group of lifelong friends, gather at Shannon's family's beachside resort to celebrate her life as they have for countless celebrations over the years. And while Shannon finds comfort in their company, it is an old flame, the beautiful and sexy Elizabeth Matthews, who awakens something in her that was forgotten long ago. Can they overcome the emotional roadblocks they put in their own way?

Will falling in love again make this Third Act the best one of all?

About Kathleen Brehony

Kathleen Brehony Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist whose passion for her work has led her to examine love and loss and the resounding power of friendships to support us even in life’s most difficult moments. She is the author of Awakening at Midlife (Riverhead), Ordinary Grace (Riverhead), After the Darkest Hour (Holt), Living a Connected Life: Building Relationships that Last a Lifetime (Holt), and co-author with Karen Jones of Up the Bestseller List (Adams), with co-author Robert Gass of Chanting: Discovering Spirit in Sound (Broadway) and with Esther Rothblum Boston Marriages: Romantic but Asexual Relationships Among Contemporary Lesbians (University of Massachusetts Press).

Kathleen was Host and Associate Producer for a weekly television show All About Women (WDBJ Roanoke, VA) and produced and hosted a short-form radio program, Heartwaves, that ran throughout North America for years. She has been a guest on hundreds of radio and television shows including the Today Show, was the subject of an hour-long presentation on PBS (CPTV, Connecticut Public Television), and is an excellent public speaker.