In the past year of Dash Bateman's life her mother died suddenly and her daughter left for college. Now she and her husband are on their own to recraft new lives for themselves and while Dash might take this to an extreme there's nothing out of the ordinary that she goes through in this story. With some women's fiction the ending comes likes a thud, and as Susan Elizabeth Phillips mentioned on the back cover blurb of my copy, and 'you race to take an antidepressant'. There are no worries about that with this book. While there might have been moments when the characters had hard choices to make, in the end those choices pay off for Dash, her husband, and the readers

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Izzy Spellman grew up and joined the family business and her little sister is following in her footsteps. This has her family concerned since Izzy was quite the hellion as a child and because the Spellmans are Private Investigators. Anecdotes will keep you laughing as Izzy explains how she met each of her ex-boyfriends, how she and her best friend terrorized the neighborhood growing up and how she plans to find her little sister when it becomes clear that Rae has been kidnapped.

Bauby was the editor of French Elle Magazine until he suffered a stroke and was hospitalized with Locked-In Syndrome. This memoir was written one letter at a time blinking his left eye to spell out each and every word. The book is short but full of candor and a very different perspective from a man who knows that he isn't alive yet he isn't dead yet either.

Grace Emerson is tired of being pitied since her ex-fiance dumped her 20 days before the wedding because he'd fallen in love with her younger sister, so she made up the boyfriend so that her sister wouldn't feel guilty and Grace wouldn't feel pitied about being at her cousin's wedding without a date. Then Callahan O'Shea moves in next door and Grace can't stop spying on him even though her dog attacks him at every opportunity. Turns out he's just gotten out of jail for something he didn't do but took the rap for and Grace is falling in love. Her family is much more leery and even the ex-fiance is warning her off even this causes problems. In the end Callahan and Grace give each other everything they are looking for and on the way this is a pretty fun read

Joey Perone is pushed off a cruise ship by her husband on her first anniversary. Only her skill and training as a collegiate diver allow her to survive the fall and the hundreds of miles of ocean before she is rescued off a small island near Florida by retired police investigator Mick Stranahan. Chaz Perone plays the grieving widower well until he gets too wrapped up with his mistress, the goon sent by his 'boss' to make sure his investment stays safe, and his real job as a biologist testing nitrate runoff in the Everglades. Joey gets Mick to help her mess with Chaz and let him think he's being blackmailed and with pressure coming from the mistress, the 'by the book' cop, the 'blackmailer', the goon, and the 'boss', Chaz self-destructs and Joey sits back to watch. The grand finale, though, has one wondering if the ends justified the means

Jakes tells the story of Gen. Sherman's march on and occupation of the city of Savannah through the eyes of Hattie, Sarah, Miss V and their acquaintances. Hattie and her mother are driven from their rice plantation by hostilities and go to the city to live with their friend Miss V. Hattie's childhood friend LeGrand goes to war and is wounded and sent back to the city. We also see the story from the eyes of Union foraging soldiers and a newspaperman who falls in love with the widow Sarah and Miss V's piano.

Zoey Adler hijacks a federal agent to help save her infant niece from kidnappers. The fact that she has nicknamed this guy 'Lips of Sin' should also tell you something about her previous run-ins with Dante Torelli. Agent Torelli is not only tasked with the protection of young Pete and her family who are in hiding from the Mob but also with an investigation of an agent gone bad. A snow storm hits Chicago, bullets fly, Pete gets swiped by Aunties from India and once again opposites attract