Recensori in anteprimaSusan McBride

Gretchen Brink has always gotten away with telling little white lies here and there. And even if the lie she’d been telling for nearly 40 years could never be called little, by now it’d been so long that she was sure she’d gotten away with it. That is, until a tornado rips through her land and reveals a man with no memory—the same day her grown daughter returns with news that she’s pregnant. Abby Brink is sure that the mysterious man is her long-lost father Sam, finally coming home, just when she needs him. As Abby, Gretchen, and Sam get closer, the lie she told all those years ago begin to haunt Gretchen. When her secrets come out, and Sam’s past is finally revealed, will it tear down this fragile life they’ve built—or bring them all closer together than ever?

Since leaving her hometown of Blue Hills, Antonia Ashton has worked hard for twenty-five years, building a thriving career and a solid relationship with a good guy. Then Greg-the-Accountant gives her the key to his apartment instead of a ring, and the forty-something Toni realizes her life has gone off-track. But she's completely derailed when her mother, Evie, suffers a massive stroke. While their relationship has never been warm and fuzzy, Toni always thought she'd have time to make it right. Now she's running back to Blue Hills to her mother and to the past she'd left behind. Once home, Toni finds more than an ailing Evie to tend to. The old Victorian on the vineyard where she'd grown up isn't only filled with clutter; it's chockfull of secrets and lies. As Evie heals, Toni tries to put her mother's house in order and, in the process, uncovers truths long-hidden involving Evie and her sister Anna, who'd vanished fifty years ago on the eve of her wedding. Unveiling the sisters' tangled lives not only sheds light on the past, but on Toni's own mistakes. And she learns the most unexpected things, about love and magic and a little black dress with the power to break hearts.and mend them.

Meet three women who aren’t about to run and hide, just because the world says they should be on the shelf and out of circulation: Kat Maguire: her life seems perfect until she loses her high-powered advertising job and catches her live-in lover in a compromising position—with his computer! Carla Moss: this sexy TV news anchor is in danger of being replaced by a twenty-something blond bimbo. Wasn’t it just yesterday that she was the up and coming star? Elise Randolph: a married dermatologist, Elise thinks her plastic surgeon husband is playing doctor with someone else. Kat firmly believes that aging gracefully isn’t about giving up; it’s about living life with your engine on overdrive. So this unofficial “Cougar Club” quickly learns three things about survival of the fittest in today’s youth-obsessed society: true friendship never dies, the only way to live is real, and you’re never too old to follow your heart.

If you think that life—and romance—end at forty…think again! Meet three women who aren’t about to run and hide, just because the world says they should be on the shelf and out of circulation: Kat Maguire: her life seems perfect until she loses her high-powered advertising job and catches her live-in lover in a compromising position. Carla Moss: this sexy TV news anchor is in danger of being replaced by a twenty-something blond bimbo. Wasn’t it just yesterday that she was the up and coming star? Elise Randolph: a married dermatologist, Elise thinks her plastic surgeon husband is playing doctor with someone else. Kat firmly believes that aging gracefully isn’t about giving up; it’s about living life with your engine on overdrive. So this unofficial “Cougar Club” quickly learns three things about survival of the fittest in today’s youth-obsessed society: true friendship never dies, the only way to live is real, and you’re never too old to follow your heart.