the setup… Daphne Bell lives in Los Angeles, working for a producer who is temperamental and quirky but a woman she admires. She’s great at her job but her romantic life is the thing. See, since she was a little girl, Daphne has had her love life preordained for her. Whenever she meets a new… Continue reading Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle @RebeccaASerle @justjuliawhelan @SimonAudio @librofm
the setup… Frank Hayes lives a very lonely and solitary life, never leaving his home since the death of his beloved wife Marcie who “visits” him regularly. He’s estranged from his only son, Michael, with no hope of reunion. Then his new neighbors move in. How does he know? Because the six-year old boy everyone… Continue reading Frank and Red by Matt Coyne #MattCoyne @jameskilleen47 @Wildfirebks
the setup… Marni McGuire is a highly successful, long-term host of cooking show who’s pretty satisfied with her life now that she’s in her mid-fifties. Her only daughter Bella is pregnant with her first child and somehow thinks her mother needs love in her life, though she’s struggling in her own marriage because her hormonal… Continue reading The Friendship Club by Robyn Carr @RCarrWriter @tplummer76 @HarlequinBooks
the setup… Felicia is a lawyer who volunteers at a local crisis center, manning the phones for national suicide prevention calls. One evening she takes a call from an extremely distraught teenage girl who is threatening to kill herself because of a video that’s being circulated at school by the boys that drugged and raped… Continue reading One of Our Own by Lucinda Berry @lucindaberry22 @ajcookofficial #TessaAlbertson @SimonAudio
the setup… DI Caius Beauchamp is on an early morning jog, part of his self improvement journey following his breakup with his French girlfriend Heloise, when he discovers the body of a dead woman in the park. He’d just stumbled into the world of “the other half” as the woman was later identified as Clemency… Continue reading The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell @CharlotteVass17 @ImogenWilde_ @PRHAudio @librofm
the setup… Kerry Tolliver is a graphic artist who recently lost her job after her company was acquired. She returned to her family home in Tarburton, North Carolina to try and figure out what was next, especially after her relationship also fizzled out. Her family runs a Fraser fir Christmas tree farm and it’s now… Continue reading Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews @mkayandrews #KathleenMcInerney @MacmillanAudio
the setup… Hattie Coleman and her husband Brent took the plunge a few years ago and became the owners and managers of the Maple Sugar Inn in Vermont, a dream he had hoped to become a reality. But two years ago, he died in a freak accident and now Hattie is left to manage things… Continue reading The Book Club Hotel by Sarah Morgan @SarahMorgan @dararosenberg27 @HarlequinBooks @librofm
the setup… Talulah Barclay returns to Coyote Canyon, Montana fourteen years after having left her fiancé at the altar. She’s there to settle her recently deceased great Aunt Phoebe’s estate and is anticipating a less than warm reception. She’s right about that but her ex’s best friend Brant Elway extends her some kindness at the… Continue reading Talulah’s Back in Town by Brenda Novak @Brenda_Novak @amymcnarrator @HarlequinBooks
the setup… Harold Fry recently retired and is living with his wife Maureen in Kingsbridge, England. He’s lived an unremarkable life and the distance between him and Maureen continues to broaden now that he’s home full time. Then an indistinctive letter arrives addressed to him from Queenie Hennessy, a former co-worker he hasn’t seen in… Continue reading The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce #RachelJoyce #JimBroadbent @PRHAudio
the setup… Imogen Finch is an artist but she hasn’t drawn anything in a long time since she returned home to Pitt’s Corner, Oregon to look out for her mother who is considered to be/possibly clairvoyant. Long ago she declared that Imogen would never come first with anyone or in anything and that prediction seems… Continue reading The Predictable Heartbreaks of Imogen Finch by Jacqueline Firkins @JFkillsdarlings @StMartinsPress
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