the setup… Stuart Nash is starting his senior year at Davidson College. For three years he’s ridden the bench as a middle linebacker on the football team. During spring training, he has an epiphany that he’s had enough, irrevocably changed by a tragic event in his hometown of Conroy, he makes the decision to quit… Continue reading The Law Student by John Grisham @johngrisham #MichaelBeck @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #TheFrenchIllusion #TheLawStudent
the setup… Septuagenerian Frances DeLuca is recently widowed and her adult son doesn’t live close. She longs for something challenging to do in this phase of her life but soon learns that her time is limited. Fran decides to reach out to the women of her youth, her best friends who she hasn’t seen in… Continue reading Rules for Aging and Larceny by Julia London @julia_f_london @ladychristinamoore @recordedbooks @recordedbooks.bsky.social #BookSky
the setup… Twelve years ago, Kate Waithman was happily married to Patrick and they were living their best lives in New York. Suddenly he was gone, killed in a car accident by a drunk driver. It’s taken this long for her to even consider another relationship and now she’s a music therapist and just got… Continue reading The Intended Life by Kristin Harmel @kristinharmel @madeleinemaby @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social @librofm @libro.fm #BookSky #TheLifeIntended
the setup… Aubrey Lamb is a bit of a mess. At thirty-two, she has multiple jobs in Washington DC that are leading nowhere, is suffocating with debt, still grieving the recent death of her father and her boyfriend of four years just dumped her. When her Tennessee cousins reach out to her about the potential… Continue reading The Great Wherever by Shannon Sanders @shannonsanderswrites @shanders.bsky.social @keylorleigh @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #BookSky #TheGreatWherever
the setup… Thirteen years ago, Tina O’Grady left her Benson, Texas hometown and never looked back, ghosting her two best friends since childhood, Walker Cosay and Gracie Ruiz, and the two women who were their beloved child care providers. She’s now back, a bit broken and alone on her way to stay with her distant… Continue reading The Tomorrow Tree by Carolyn Brown @carolynbrownbooks @carolynbrown.bsky.social @britpressley @brilliancepublishing #TheTomorrowTree
the setup… It’s the summer of 2024 and in the blink of an eye, Margot Cooper’s life imploded. Her Hollywood star husband Jack is exposed as having sent sexually explicit pictures to young girls on social media. Their carefully curated marriage was a sham, along with the brand she built. She and sixteen-year old daughter… Continue reading Lady X by Molly Fader @mollyfaderauthor @hlaserwolf @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #BookSky #LadyX
the setup… Autumn is beginning to show its signs and the Village of Nothing Much starts to stir. There’s the baker whose scrumptious concoctions waft through the window, the piano teacher who is working with a young boy showing signs of being a prodigy and the innkeeper who is full of ideas for winter activities… Continue reading On the Street Where You Live by Kathryn Nicolai @iamkathrynnicolai @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #OnTheStreetWhereYouLive
the setup… It’s been a year since Claire Karadec’s world fell apart. She’s forty-six years old and her marriage disintegrated in public as she learned of her husband’s affair at a charitable event and moments later caught him in the act! Humiliated, alone and rudderless, Claire finally decides to take a big step forward in… Continue reading Brighter Than Before by Courtney Walsh @courtneywalsh @pattimurin @thomasnelsonfiction #BrighterThanBefore
the setup… Maeve Dunigan has cared for her mother the last few years and now that Mary Helen Dunigan has passed, the older prodigal daughter Therese has returned home for the funeral. It’s been seven years since Maeve last saw her and they are polar opposites. While they struggle to get along, both are united… Continue reading Road Trip by Mary Kay Andrews @marykayandrews @theveronicacat @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #RoadTrip
the setup… Daisy Stevens is a NICU nurse in Charlotte ready for a respite after a particularly traumatizing case. She packs up and escapes to a new, less stressful job and life in Cape Carolina. But on her first day, Mason Thaysden rushes into the hospital with a newborn he discovered in a dumpster. Mason… Continue reading Summer State of Mind by Kristy Woodson Harvey @kristywharvey @cassandracampbell @steph_einstein @mattpittenger @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #SummerStateOfMind
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