Publication Date: July 2024
Blurb:
It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She’s immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe’s plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.
What To Expect:
Readers can expect a humorous drama with open door romance and centering around a second chance trope. It includes LGTBQ rep in side characters.
Content Warnings:
Language: Heavy – Including religious exclamations
Sexual Content: Open Door – Explicit descriptions of masturbation, sex between married couple, sexting, discussions with a sex therapist.
Violence: None
Substance Use: Heavy drinking throughout novel, including an underage person. Scene of two people smoking marijuana.
Prejudices: Religious prejudice (repeatedly states “God doesn’t exist”); age discrimination (age gap relationship – legal)
Religious Themes: Religion is seen negatively. Many mentions of God not existing and mocking of only person that is openly religious (eye rolling while praying, mocking mother-in-law wanting wedding to be in church).
Other Topics: Adultery, mental illness (suicide), death of an animal; fertility issues (failed IVF cycles), death of a spouse.
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