“Cradle to the grave, we were meant to be together. Until we weren’t.”

Over nine years ago, a bus crash claimed the life of the boy she promised to love forever.

Sabrina still hasn’t moved on.

Forty-six students, two chaperones, and the driver were on that bus.

Adam was the only fatality, and she picked their seat.

Sabrina’s life has become a shrine to the life they never got to have.

Her carefully crafted existence begins to unravel after she’s discovered sleeping at Adam’s grave by her co-worker, Clay Templeton.

Clay persuades Sabrina to join his grief support group. What choice does she have? How many parents would entrust the education of their children to a woman who sleeps in a cemetery? Her resistance softens after she learns Clay’s story and the stories of other group members. Loss is personal, but it’s not exclusive.

After announcing plans to build a new high school, Dr. MacManus, the new superintendent, labels Adam’s memorial “a painful reminder of a tragic accident,” and has it removed. He also pressures Sabrina to move to one of the district’s middle schools, so he can give her position to another teacher.

When Sabrina questions the timing of these events, her clash with Dr. MacManus uncovers secrets with the power to destroy lives.

Everything in Between explores guilt, grief, loss, and our ability to survive and move forward.

Toby Gribben for Shout Radio will interview Frances on June 6. 2023. We will update this page and our Facebook page with information about when the podcast will air.

Frances Joyce lives in Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania, a suburb in the South Hills of Pittsburgh.

She shares a Mid-century modern home, in a constant state of renovation, with her four cats, Annika, Milo, Koho, and Mittens.

Frances grew up in Florida and attended college in North Carolina. While raising three sons, she lived all over the United States working in several career fields.

Writing became her passion.

After freelancing for several local magazines, she started the monthly online publication, This Awful Awesome Life, thisawfulawesomelife.com.

Everything in Between is her third book.

Dancing in the Rain: Surviving Breast Cancer and Learning How to Embrace Life follows Frances and four other women through diagnosis, treatment, and finally, those four all-important words, no evidence of disease.

His Life’s Work is an action-thriller about a serial killer with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Her books are available on amazon.com.

Visit her website, francesjoyce.com. Frances loves hearing from fellow readers.

Cover design by Francis Cleetus.

Everything in Between by Frances Joyce is available in hardcover, paperback, and e-book on amazon.com.