the setup… Our narrator begins her story when she was a senior in college where she meets two young men in her 17th Century Lit Class. Sam and Yash are house sitting in a grand home owned by a professor on sabbatical. Sam takes her out and invites her into their world of smart conversation,… Continue reading Heart the Lover by Lily King @lilykingbooks #RebeccaLowman @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #HeartTheLover
the setup… The story continues with Rose Douglas who has grown comfortable and confident now that her abusive ex, Tommy Merchant, left town five years ago. She’s loving her job at the clinic, her two boys are thriving and she’s tiptoeing around a potential relationship with widower Nate Theroux. But when Tommy suddenly shows back… Continue reading In a Distant Valley by Shannon Bowring @shannonbowring.author @shannonbowring.bsky.social @tantoraudio @tantoraudio.bsky.social #PatriciaShade #DaltonMaine #InADistantValley
the setup… It begins in the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio in the 1920s and the saga continues through the turbulent time of the 1960s and the Vietnam War era. Cal Jenkins was born with a leg deformity that defines and prevents him from serving his country in WWII. He marries Becky, the first woman… Continue reading Buckeye by Patrick Ryan @patrickryannyc @patrickryannyc.bsky.social @michael.l.crouch @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #Buckeye
the setup… Louisa, just a few days shy of her eighteenth birthday, decides to leave her foster home in search of the painting that left an indelible mark on her soul from the moment she saw it on a postcard years before. She makes her way into the New York gallery where The One of… Continue reading My Friends by Fredrik Backman @backmansk @marinireland @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social #MyFriends
the setup… Sybil Van Antwerp is a retired lawyer of distinction. When her story begins, she’s 73-years old, divorced, living in Arnold, Maryland and has two children; daughter Fiona married and living in London and son Bruce also married with two children. Every morning she begins her day at her desk, organizing her correspondence, preparing… Continue reading The Correspondent by Virginia Evans @virginia.l.evans @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #TheCorrespondent
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… Cora Atkin is on her way to register the name of her newborn son. Her husband Gordon wants him named after him; nine-year old daughter Maia suggests Bear, and Cora likes Julian. Whichever her choice will have a consequence, both for the child and her family. Over the next 35 years, the story… Continue reading The Names by Florence Knapp @florenceknapp_ @florenceknapp.bsky.social #dervlakirwan @prhaudio @prhaudio.bsky.social #TheNames
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… David Sheehan pounds on the door of Martine Dumont, a lawyer and former family friend of his wife Angie. He desperately needs her help to deal with the monstrous tragedy that’s just happened in his home. Their fourteen-year old son Nico is dead and their thirteen-year old daughter Nora called 911 and said… Continue reading Penitence by Kristin Koval @kristinkovalwriter @plummertherese @macmillan.audio @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #Penitence
the setup… It’s 1968 and someone was murdered as the story begins but it then gently pivots to the summer of 1955 when Beth Johnson and and Gabriel Wolfe meet. They’re teenagers in North Dorset, both preparing very differently for post graduation but begin a passionate love affair that ends too soon and unfortunately. Beth… Continue reading Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall @clarelesliehall @clarelesliehall.bsky.social #HattieMorahan @simon.audio @simonaudio.bsky.social @librofm @reesesbookclub
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