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When Julie Paver’s husband Matt moves his business to
Atlanta, she is forced to leave behind her thriving jewelry boutique, Stones.
The move threatens their twenty-five-year marriage, because now if Matt isn’t
out of town negotiating a merger, he’s spending late hours on overseas phone
calls with his sexy-sounding second-in-command. Feeling neglected and unloved,
Julie seeks closure by reconnecting with her first love, Manny, when he pursues
her with his Internet innuendos. Manny is unaware he’s the father of Julie’s
son, and Julie contemplates revealing the secret to him on the eve of their
son’s wedding. But would such a walk down memory lane be worth the cost? Julie
and Manny finally meet at her oceanfront condo — in the midst of a hurricane —
and elements collide to create the perfect storm in a coming-of-middle-age
crisis.
Excerpt:
To go or not to go to Palm Coast is no longer the question. The
question is what will I do once I get there? Will I really have the nerve to
reconnect, or as my daughter Natalie likes to say, “hook up,” again with Manny
Gellar? How will I feel tomorrow when I see him alone for the first time after
twenty-five years? Will I finally reveal what I feel compelled—no, what
I’m busting a gut—to tell him? That he has a beautiful son,
that our son Josh is getting married in just three months? I’m probably
rationalizing, but I think he finally has a right to know.
If I could, I’d fix what is wrong with my marriage and put
it back the way it was before, as easily as Ricardo fixed my washing machine. Before
Matt yanked me out of Miami by my roots as if I were a noxious weed he was
tossing out of a flower garden and carelessly transplanted us to Atlanta. Before
we moved a state away from my family and my best friend and a business I’d
worked a lifetime to create. Before Matt sold his freight-expediting business
to a German conglomerate for mega-millions and agreed to run the company for
them from Atlanta for the next two years, barely consulting me. Before the German
occupation, or rather before he became preoccupied with his sexy-sounding
German second-in-command,Gretchen. Before he stopped sleeping with me in the
biblical sense. Before I turned fifty.
All I really want is closure. I’m convinced that meeting
Manny Gellar again is the only way I will ever come full circle and reconnect
with my life.
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