the setup… It’s the spring of 2014 in Pondville, Massachusetts and Paul (PJ) Halliday was reading the obituaries and saw that his old friend and rival Gene Bartlett had died. Gene married Michelle Cobb, “the one that got away,” and PJ is inspired to drive across the country to the Tender Hearts Retirement Community in… Continue reading The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett @annie_hartnett @anniehartnett.bsky.social @mbram17 @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #TheRoadToTenderHearts
the setup… Bud Stanley is stuck. He’s a middle-aged obituary writer living in Brooklyn, divorced from a woman who left him for someone unremarkable. Bud is going through the motions of life and even his writing has gone stale. One night after too much to drink, he pens his own obituary and accidentally publishes it.… Continue reading I See You’ve Called in Dead by John Kenney @johnkenneywriter @seanpatrickhopkins @zibbypublishing @librofm @libro.fm #ISeeYouveCalledInDead
the setup… Charlotte Sitterly’s idyllic world in the beachfront town of Juniper Shores, North Carolina is turned upside down overnight when her husband Bill is arrested for financial crimes. She and her teenage daughter Iris find themselves barred from their home, almost penniless with bank accounts frozen and nowhere to turn. But an angel in… Continue reading Beach House Rules by Kristy Woodson Harvey @kristywharvey @cassandracampbell @miahutchinsonshaw @suehylaeyoung @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social @librofm @libro.fm #BeachHouseRules
the setup… Sloan Cooper is a highly skilled and respected Maryland Natural Resources Police officer. Her world is almost shattered when she walks into a convenience store and interrupts an armed robbery. She’s gunned down, almost dying before being resuscitated in the operating room. Sloan moves back home to Heron’s Rest from her apartment in… Continue reading Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts @norarobertsauthor @januarylavoy @justjanuary.bsky.social @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #HiddenNature
the setup… Genevieve Dempsey is a psychologist who has a theory about the five stages of grief and has assembled four people to participate in an experiment designed to mend their broken hearts. There’s Victoria, an acerbic 52-year old lawyer who doesn’t think she belongs there; Mischa, a 20-year old who can’t find a place… Continue reading The Seven O’Clock Club by Amelia Ireland @ameliaireland_author @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #TheSevenOClockClub
the setup… It’s been six months and Reuben Miller is still not over the breakup with his ex-girlfriend Beth. When he learns she’s getting married this weekend, he considers a last attempt intervention until his friends plan one for him. They arrange a fancy day in a leased Ferrari to distract him…until Reuben gets a… Continue reading The One That Got Away by Mike Gayle @mikegaylethenovelist @david.ijiti @brilliancepublishing #TheOneThatGotAway
the setup… It’s the Fourth of July and seven-year old Michael and his older brother Thomas are on the beach waiting for the fireworks to start when Thomas talks him into stealing one of the rockets. It ends in a nightmare where Michael barely survives and is left with permanent scars on his chest, ending… Continue reading Michael Without Apology by Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhydethewriter @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social @michael.l.crouch @brilliancepublishing #MichaelWithoutApology
the setup… Lillian Wright and Ryan Brighton meet in a library and before they know it, are deeply in love and marry. They want to combine their names but it sounds comical so they become the Bright family. They open his art gallery and she leaves her bank job to help manage the marketing. Later… Continue reading The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff @sarahdamoff @ferdellecapistrano @joyosmanski #LeeOsorio @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social @librofm @libro.fm
the setup… Alice Scott is an aspiring biographer currently working for a publication in Los Angeles. She’s landed the interview of a lifetime…Margaret Ives, heiress to the Ives media empire who was once known as the Tabloid Princess and hasn’t been seen in two decades. When Alice arrives at Margaret’s home in Little Crescent Island,… Continue reading Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry @emilyhenrywrites @justjuliawhelan @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social @librofm @libro.fm #GreatBigBeautifulLife
the setup… Samantha Diaz walks into Dr. Xavier Rush’s veterinary clinic with a stray kitten in her bosom. She needs her checked out and he’s the best. First impressions are great on both sides but when he diagnoses the kitten with a serious condition that’s expensive and risky to remedy, her opinion of him plummets… Continue reading Say You’ll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez @authorabbyjimenez @yolakin @mattlanter @hachetteaudio @hachetteaudio.bsky.social @librofm #SayYoullRememberMe
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