About Breaking and Holding Paperback: 366 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (August 2, 2016) For Patricia Curren, the summer of 1978 begins with a devastating discovery: an unfamiliar black pearl button in the bed she shares with her controlling husband, Jack. Seeking the courage to end her desolate marriage, Patricia spends a quiet summer alone […]
Suzanne Kamata, author of THE MERMAIDS OF LAKE MICHIGAN, on tour February/March 2017
About The Mermaids of Lake Michigan Paperback Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing (February 14, 2017) Elise Faulkner is more at home in the waters of her beloved Lake Michigan than on land where her beauty queen mom is always on her back about her lack of a social life; her sister is dating the boy of her […]
Marilyn Simon Rothstein, author of Lift And Separate, on tour January/February 2017
. About Lift And Separate Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (December 1, 2016) Marcy Hammer’s life has been turned upside down. Her husband, the head of a global brassiere empire, didn’t think twice about leaving her after thirty-three years of marriage for a 32DD lingerie model. Now Harvey the Home-Wrecker is missing in […]
Nancy Star, author of SISTERS ONE, TWO, THREE, on tour January 2017
About Sisters One, Two, Three Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (January 1, 2017) After a tragic accident on Martha’s Vineyard, keeping secrets becomes a way of life for the Tangle family. With memories locked away, the sisters take divergent paths. Callie disappears, Mimi keeps so busy she has no time to think, and […]
Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of SAY GOODBYE FOR NOW, on tour December 2016/January 2017
About Say Goodbye for Now Paperback: 364 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (December 13, 2016) On an isolated Texas ranch, Dr. Lucy cares for abandoned animals. The solitude allows her to avoid the people and places that remind her of the past. Not that any of the townsfolk care. In 1959, no one is interested […]
Amy Impellizzeri, author of SECRETS OF WORRY DOLLS, on tour December 2016
About Secrets of Worry Dolls Paperback: 312 pages Publisher: Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing (December 1, 2016) According to Mayan tradition, if you whisper your troubles to the Worry Dolls, they will do the worrying instead of you–therefore, it follows that Worry Dolls are the keepers of a great many secrets . . . On the eve of the end […]
Amy Rivers, author of Wallflower Blooming, on tour November/December 2016
About Wallflower Blooming Paperback: 186 pages Publisher: Wooden Pants Publishing; 2 edition (August 15, 2016) Val Shakely is a list-maker. Daily routine. Check. Calm, quiet (but successful) business. Check. No drama. No excitement. Some might call it boring, but it’s precisely the way Val likes it. She loves her hometown of Cambria, nestled in the mountains of […]
Maddie Dawson, author of THE SURVIVOR’S GUIDE TO FAMILY HAPPINESS, on tour October/November 2016
About The Survivor’s Guide to Family Happiness Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (October 25, 2016) Three women, three lives, and one chance to become a family…whether they want to or not. Newly orphaned, recently divorced, and semiadrift, Nina Popkin is on a search for her birth mother. She’s spent her life looking into strangers’ faces, […]
Liz Rosenberg, author of BEAUTY AND ATTENTION, on tour October/November 2016
About Beauty and Attention Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (October 25, 2016) The riveting story of one brave young woman’s struggle to free herself from a web of deceit. For misfit Libby Archer, social expectations for young women in Rochester, New York, in the mid-1950s don’t work. Her father has died, leaving her without parents, […]
Patricia Perry Donovan, author of DELIVER HER, on tour October 2016
About Deliver Her Paperback: 350 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing; Reprint edition (May 1, 2016) Author Patricia Perry Donovan weaves her tale flawlessly, testing the boundaries of family and friendship. On the night of Alex Carmody’s sixteenth birthday, she and her best friend, Cass, are victims of a terrible car accident. Alex survives; Cass doesn’t. Consumed by […]