Plot summary (with spoilers): 43-year-old True Dickenson is the millionaire owner of an Internet/mail-order business, called Twelve Times Blessed, that is essentially a gift-of-the-month club for babies. True has been widowed for the past 8 years, and is currently raising 10-year-old son Guy on her own. She’s not exactly looking for love, but finds it [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): Sarah Hurlihy is a 40-year-old preschool teacher who’s trying to get back into the dating game a couple years after her divorce from Kevin. The marriage just didn’t work out, as they slowly discovered they had very little in common after all. By the end, they barely spoke to each other [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): Forty-year-old Nina Askew is looking for a change in her life. She’s been divorced and living on her own for a year, and though she loves the independence, she can’t help but feel that her apartment is too empty. She decides that what she wants most of all is a “perky” [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): While home on leave from the Army, 23-year-old John Tyree meets the girl of his dreams. Her name is Savannah, and she’s a 21-year-old college student at the University of North Carolina. The two meet on the beach at Wilmington, where John was riding some waves as Savannah hung out on [...]
Plot summary (with spoilers): Candace “Cannie” Shapiro is a Philadelphia-based entertainment writer whose world is turned upside down when she reads a magazine column penned by ex-boyfriend Bruce. It’s about “loving a larger woman”, and is part of his “Good in Bed” series. Cannie is absolutely horrified by what Bruce wrote about her, as she [...]
I’m not a huge Nicholas Sparks fan, and in fact have disliked more of his novels than I’ve liked. But I don’t exactly hate his works either, so I wasn’t opposed to trying out the 2002 novel Nights in Rodanthe, especially because it was very short and seemed like a quick, easy read. It turned [...]