Sometimes love just won't go away. — ALL IT TAKES IS ONE LITTLE KISS... — In order to keep custody of her teenage sister, Tessa Scuderi told a small (okay, big) lie to the people of Lucy's Lake, Vermont, about what really happened ten years ago when Dermot Finnegan took off with her virginity, he...
July 14, 2011 "Accept the book with the amber spine. Return the frog. Take the cab. What the hell kind of advice is that?" When Tucson Today segment producer Carly McKay visits the quirky artist’s community of Bilby, Arizona, to do a story on a psychic quiltmaker, she receives an odd reading.....
Adriana Trigiani meets Jane Green in this irresistible new novel about a family of southern women who have rotten luck with men. Portia Fallon calls it PTE or the Penis Teflon Effect. It's the way all the women in her family deflect men like ping pong balls. No man has ever stuck with a Fallon w...
It was now or never. It wasn’t Vivian and Gary’s habit to be up much before noon, and she suspected they’d probably gone right back to sleep when they’d woken up in the morning to find her gone. The idea of disturbing them was pleasing.She hit the doorbell. Moments later, Vivian pulled the door o...
Everything was black, but her head was pounding, and her body felt too heavy to move. She opened her eyes, giving them a moment to adjust to the shadows in the room. The first thing she was able to focus on were the square white ceiling panels over her head. Somewhere behind her, something cast a...
Actually, it was several bottles of Chivas, but I just named them all Albert. Hell, it worked for the Lassie people, it could work for me. I drank and watched Fox News Channel until I almost turned Republican. Then I watched CNN until I almost turned stupid. &n...
Rattling against wood. Something was… Flynn opened one eye just as her cell phone vibrated itself right off the nightstand and clanked perfectly into a glass with about a half-inch of Irish whiskey. She’d moved it to the floor in the middle of the night because the smell was bothering her, but sh...
Jess said, angling her head a little to the side as she surveyed our handiwork. There was sawdust in her hair and on her cheek. “What do we think?” “I don’t know about you,” I said, “but I think it’s pretty cool.” And it was. We’d surveyed the study...