Fifty-five-year-old college librarian Alex Bonhall is sick of her job, bored with herself and simmering with resentment. Her husband is self-absorbed, her adult children are intimidating, and her best friend borders on bullying ... and everyone has an opinion on what's best for Alex.

After yet another trip to the dentist for the painful effects of grinding her teeth, Alex takes the first halting steps to change her life. Can she move from silently resenting people to speaking out, making changes, and no longer hiding, literally and figuratively, from even her family and best friends?

Alex's journey back to the free-spirited woman she used to be is a cascade of changes that surprise everyone -no one more than Alex herself.

If you've ever felt trapped by your own choices, limited by other people's definition of who you are, and yearned for the adventurous life you'd imagined you might have...

Come along with Alex on her hike into freedom.

Falling Feathers is the first book in the Sunflower Beach series by Dolores Puterbaugh, a Florida-based psychotherapist, author and painter.