In My Mailbox: Week of October 17th
Title: Four Thousand Miles
Author: Jesi Lea Ryan
Received: From Jesi Lea Ryan
Synopsis: When Natalie Spencer loses both her career and marriage in the same morning, the emotional shock sends her on a spontaneous journey to England. There, she is nearly mugged in a Tube station, but an introverted songwriter named Gavin Ashby scares off her attackers. Recognizing Natalie’s fragile state, Gavin offers help and invites her to recuperate from her trauma at his country home.
As she adjusts to her new role and surroundings, Natalie finds healing by helping others. Gavin and his family begin to accept Natalie into their hearts, leading her to a choice…abandon her old life in the States and trust in a new chance at love, or flee once again?
Title: Her Latest Supporting Role
Author: Cynthia Ashworth
Received: From Cynthia Ashworth
Synopsis: Jill Barber is a failed former actress and almost-MFA…or so she thinks. A botched exam and her reluctance to submit to a lecherous lecturer’s proposal—sleep with him for a passing grade—land her in summer school, taking a class taught by hot young novelist Jonathan Wunder.
Jill’s nights are spent working to finish her degree, her days at a large Madison Avenue ad agency trying desperately to hang onto its largest account. Tellco Toys’ business is about to walk out the door, and Constable, the agency’s mercurial President, is making everyone’s life miserable: Jill’s bosses, the Über-Producers Sandi and Nick; Petra and Robin (a hip and friendly creative team with a knack for giving Jill the wrong advice); and client-service guy Graham, who has taken quite a shine to Jill. And against her better judgment, she soon finds herself in an ambiguous romantic relationship with her instructor, while trying to deflect the attentions of her straight-laced and smitten co-worker without hurting her budding career.
HER LATEST SUPPORTING ROLE is a romantic comedy set in the funny and frantic world of New York advertising. Jill’s romantic missteps—as she maneuvers between her enigmatic instructor and a charming but hapless colleague—and the agency’s increasingly desperate attempts to save the big account (and everyone’s jobs) are parallel stories that drive toward a surprising climax.
Title: Falling Home
Author: Karen White
Received: From Joy Strazza with Joan Schulhafer Publishing & Media Consulting
Synopsis: Falling Home is a coming home story about forgiveness and acceptance, and of finding love in the most unexpected of places. Home is where the heart is, but Cassie Madison prefers to think of it as a place where one is born, then outgrows, along with skinned knees and childhood dreams. A humiliated Cassie left Walton, Georgia for Manhattan fifteen years before, vowing never to return.
And then her sister calls. Their father is dying and wants Cassie to come back home. When Cassie’s father dies, saddling her with the family’s antebellum home and letters hinting of an unknown sibling, Cassie finds herself sinking into the red Georgia clay like quicksand. Reluctantly, Cassie is pulled into the lives of her sister and family, and that of Sam Parker, the town doctor.
When tragedy strikes, Cassie is led to discover that home is a place that lives in one’s heart, waiting with open arms to be rediscovered.
October 17, 2010
