One of your narrators is Mitchell and Ava’s young son, Jack? Why did you choose this POV?ĬENTER OF GRAVITY is told in several voices eight-year-old Jack’s being that of the innocent observer. Unlike Price’s novel, though, CENTER OF GRAVITY includes an additional domestic suspense angle, with the couple’s young children caught in the middle of Ava and Mitchell’s custody battle. As a powerful member of the community, he skillfully manipulates public opinion, placing Ava in devastating situations with her own friends and family.

Like Martin in Sleeping With the Enemy, Mitchell is definitely controlling, jealous, and increasingly violent. Sounds a bit like Sleeping With the Enemy. It’s then that Ava is forced to wake up and face the truth that her husband is not the charming, loving man she believed she’d married. Things get much worse, however, after Mitchell files for divorce and demands full custody of the couple’s children. The story follows Ava Carson as she navigates through bitter shock and pain after her husband announces he’s leaving the marriage. On the surface, the novel is about the dissolution of a picture-perfect family. McNeill took some time out of her schedule this month to answer a few questions for The Big Thrill about her novel and what’s next for her writing career. With the idyllic Gulf Coast of Alabama in the backdrop, protagonist Ava Carson finds herself ricocheted into a web of secrets and lies in Laura McNeill’s debut, CENTER OF GRAVITY.

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