It's All in the Cards...The Emperor

Lauren Taylor

Aug 2017 · Swamp Irish Books

About this ebook

EJ Johnson is in love and finally starting her life long time love John Markham in Philadelphia just as the tarot cards had told her, she thinks. But moving from Tyler, Texas to the City of Brotherly Love has some big surprises in store the least of which is Michael Atter, her nemesis and love of her life.  Meanwhile Janet Davis, EJ’s best friend and confidant, is dealing with troubles of her own, namely a philandering husband. Janet is a hilariously foul mouthed mother of two boys trying to support her bestie as she navigates the roller coaster of life but finds she is on her on wild ride. She finally asks EJ to do a tarot spread for her and the results lead to Janet finally getting her ‘mad on’. EJ and Janet have been best friends for as long as either can remember and for as long as either can remember their mothers have hated each other. The stage is set for Linda Johnson and Vicki Wilson to rumble.  EJ will survive her challenges but at what cost and with whom, It’s All in the Cards…

About the author

Lauren Taylor is the pen name for the author who currently resides near St Louis, Missouri but grew up near Houston, Texas. Lauren’s natural humor as well as sensuality keeps her readers enthralled. Her stories are peppered with snippets of Texas’ various traditions such as East Texas Baptists to Cajun extra spicy to Houston Rodeo’s “Chicken Committee” mixed in with the ‘hocus pocus’ of the spirit world and tarot cards.  EJ Johnson, is an amalgam of the typical Texas woman although raised in affluent surroundings with deep familial roots in the Lone Star State. Best friend Janet Davis is only slightly crazier but definitely Texas born and bred.

Now in her sixties Ms. Taylor enjoys speaking entertaining groups with her wit on such topics as life growing up in East Texas with Cajun ancestry to her early years to challenges of human resources professionals to helping women deal and laugh with the craziness of life.  Her memoir “I Can’t Believe That Was Me…Oh yes I can and it still is”, is a hilarious account of her early life as a human resources professional.