About The Reinvention of Albert Paugh Page count: 288 pages Publisher: Endicott and Hugh Books Dr. Albert Paugh is flunking retirement. After selling his Vashon Island veterinary practice, he soon finds himself not only lost without his work, but suddenly single. His efforts to carve out a new life, both as a bachelor and a retiree, […]
Scarlet Bennett, author of Striking Out, on tour July/August 2015
About Striking Out Publisher: Firefield Press (July 14, 2015) Page count: 261 Sharon Jackson is forced to leave her childhood home in Western Australia after her turbulent personal and professional lives collide, leaving her singing career in ruins. On the run, she moves to Perth with an empty bank account, determined to prove her past […]
Richard J. Alley, author of Five Night Stand, on tour May 2015
About Five Night Stand Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (May 12, 2015) Legendary jazz pianist Oliver Pleasant finds himself alone at the end of his career, playing his last five shows, hoping the music will draw his estranged family back… Frank Severs, a middle-aged, out-of-work journalist, is at a crossroads as his longtime […]
Tania James, author of The Tusk That Did the Damage, on tour March/April 2015
About The Tusk That Did the Damage Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: Knopf (March 10, 2015) From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes, a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of audacious imagination, an […]
Ellen Hawley, author of The Divorce Diet, on tour January 2015
About The Divorce Diet Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Kensington (December 30, 2014) The Divorce Diet is dedicated to every woman who ever walked away from a relationship—or a diet. Abigail, an inspired cook and stay-at-home mother, decides to repair the problems in her marriage with a diet book for herself and an elaborate birthday dinner for her husband. […]
Jessica Barksdale Inclán, author of How to Bake a Man, on tour October/November 2014
About How to Bake a Man Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Ghostwoods Books (October 21, 2014) When 27-year-old Becca Muchmore drops out of grad school, all she has left to fall back on is her baking. Ignoring her mother’s usual barrage of disapproval and disappointment, she decides to start a small business hand-delivering her wares. A […]
Heather Graham, author of The Betrayed, on tour September/October 2014
About The Betrayed Series: Krewe of Hunters Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Harlequin MIRA (September 30, 2014) One night, New York FBI agent Aiden Mahoney receives a visitor in a dream—an old friend named Richard Highsmith. The very next day he’s sent to Sleepy Hollow because Richard’s gone missing there. Maureen—Mo—Deauville now lives in the historic town and […]
Heather Graham, author of The Hexed, on tour August/September 2014
About The Hexed Series: Krewe of Hunters Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Harlequin MIRA (July 29, 2014) A place of history, secrets…and witchcraft. Devin Lyle has recently returned to the Salem area, but her timing couldn’t be worse. Soon after she moved into the eighteenth-century cabin she inherited from her great-aunt Mina—her “crazy” great-aunt, who spoke to the […]
Theresa Shea, author of The Unfinished Child, on tour May 2014
About The Unfinished Child Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Brindle & Glass (April 2, 2013) When Marie MacPherson, a mother of two, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at thirty-nine, she feels guilty. Her best friend, Elizabeth, has never been able to conceive, despite years of fertility treatments. Marie’s dilemma is further complicated when she becomes convinced something is wrong […]
Ruth Reichl, author of Delicious!, on tour April/May 2014
About Delicious! Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Random House (May 6, 2014) In her New York Times bestselling memoirs Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples, Ruth Reichl has brilliantly illuminated how food defines us. Now she celebrates this theme in her dazzling fiction debut—a novel of sisters, family ties, and a young woman who must […]