Rachel Stone’s car breaks down on the edges of Salvation, North Carolina, the one place on the planet where the most people hate her. Rachel’s former husband, the Reverend Snopes was a hugely popular tele-evangelist who conned people all over the country out of their life savings, making Rachel his scape goat when he got caught. He died in a plane crash fleeing the country, but Rachel knows there are five million still left unaccounted for, and as she currently has about eleven dollars to […]
Prof. Jane Darlington might have a genius level IQ, but she goes about getting a baby in a truly dumb way
Professor Jane Darlington has a genius level IQ, is a master physicist and desperately wants a baby. However, Jane’s super smarts made her feel like a freak growing up, and she doesn’t want any child of hers to experience the same thing. Plus she’s currently single, and not really looking for a relationship. She does need to find herself a baby daddy, though, and preferably one who’s a bit stupid, in the hopes that this will produce her a child with a thoroughly average intelligence. […]
A book about friendship, motherhood and pies
Veronica Russo lives in Boothbay Harbour in Maine. She’s a waitress at the local diner and also makes insanely delicious pies, that are very popular among the people in town. She even has pie-making classes. When she was sixteen, she got pregnant and had to give her baby up for adoption. She still feels as if some of the people she grew up with judge her for this, but is trying to get on with her life. She can’t help but think about the baby […]
Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose
I dare you to read this book and not picture Kyle Chandler in your head for all 433 pages. Go ahead. I dare you. It can’t be done. And really, that’s fine with me. It only made the book more enjoyable for me. The One & Only is the story of Shea, a 30-something woman in a Texas town that is all about it’s local college football team. Shea works in the athletic department at Walker, her alma mater, and never misses a football game. […]