Just when you think there is no hope, along comes Perfect Mercy.
Mercy Hamilton has the perfect life. She’s gorgeous, has amazing fashion sense, she’s intelligent and has the perfect boyfriend, family and home.
Things start to unravel when Mercy does something she regrets at a party. Her perfect world falls apart when she discovers her parents haven’t been as happy as she believed, her reputation is ruined and her relationship with her boyfriend breaks down. In real life our choices have consequences and, just when you think there is no hope, along comes Perfect Mercy.
From the Author
Writing Perfect Mercy was the fulfilment of a life dream to write a fiction novel. I never thought I could write fiction as I was too grounded in reality.
That’s why I wrote two non fiction books first- Beautiful: beauty tips for the soul and Too Beautiful: more beauty tips for the soul. Perfect Mercy is the sort of book you can read and relate to. It’s about real life and how life sometimes is a series of mistakes.
I believe that mistakes teach us to grow stronger and more resilient or they can crush us and make us victims. The way we choose to responds to life’s challenges makes or breaks us as people.
The Beautiful Lives Series of novels have a different girl as the main character. Each of these girls will be very different. In Book Two, Justice has dreadlocks, is into the peace movement and wears Doc Martins. She’s very different to Perfect Mercy Hamilton.
As the books progress, the issues become deeper as the girls will leave high school and enter into the years where I believe women find out who they really are. Relationship and sexual issues, study and work dilemmas really start to hit home in these years.
The transition from high school to the expectations of being a fully functioning adult is sometimes a rude awakening into responsibility. Facing these issues even with friends, faith and character can be difficult.
I hope that the books help the reader navigate some of these issues. In writing about the problems faced by the characters, I hope some key principles will help the reader to work out things in their own life.
A key principle that flows throughout is that you are free to choose to anything you want in life, however, not everything is good for you. We all have to face the consequences of our choices and take responsibility for them.
Mostly, I hope you enjoy the stories.
Elaine Fraser
