In My Mailbox: Week of May 19
Title: Adventure to Love
adventure to loveAuthor: Bethany Ramos
Received: Via CLP Blog Tours
Synopsis: In a “Bachelor” meets “Survivor”-style reality TV show, twelve women are flown to an undisclosed location to meet the eligible bachelor Ky, a former boy band member and the privileged son of an LA plastic surgeon. After arriving at a beautiful resort in Bali, the women compete for a chance at love as they fight to win Ky’s affection.
Morgan, the blunt, down-to-earth, girl next door; Harper, a wannabe Hollywood starlet who is competing not only for her fifteen minutes of fame but to win enough money for breast implants; and Brinkley, the innocent, Jesus-loving Midwesterner who believes that she and Ky are a match made in heaven, must go head-to-head with nine other women on group dates and in challenges to stay in the competition.
What happens behind the scenes when a dating reality show goes awry?
unexpected listTitle: The Unexpected List
Author: Chrissy Anderson
Received: From Chrissy Anderson
Synopsis: Chrissy Anderson’s The Unexpected List delivers another charismatic combination of romance and anguish, peppered with large doses of wit. In this second novel from THE LIST TRILOGY, Chrissy, who is now divorced from her husband, Kurt, is finally free to pursue a “truly, madly, deeply” relationship with the man of her dreams, Leo.
And it looks like Chrissy is finally going to be able to have her wedding cake and eat it too as Leo valiantly tries to make all of her dreams come true. But once again, Chrissy’s world, and her relationships, are turned upside-down as someone else close to her dies. And, an unexpected gift forces her to grow up– fast. For a second time, Chrissy is pushed to make a choice between love and obligation. What will she choose this time?
Your favorite characters from The Life List are back. Dr. Maria, Slutty Co-worker, and Chrissy’s best friends from high school, Courtney and Nicole, continue to laugh and cry with Chrissy as she learns how to pick herself up and move on to achieve the life she’s always wanted, and now knows she deserves.
As in The Life List, not everyone will agree with Chrissy Anderson’s decisions, but all will pause as they follow along on her journey to ask, “What would I do if I were her?”
keptTitle: Kept
Author: Elle Field
Received: From Elle Field
Synopsis: ‘Did she really just say that? I am fifteen again, except the reality is I am experiencing full parental horror, aged twenty-five. I want to die.’
Life hasn’t quite worked out how Arielle Lockley imagined it would. Becoming the next Coco Chanel was always her childhood dream, but she’s spent the past four years living a dizzying whirl of glitzy parties, luxurious holidays and daily shopping sprees – all paid for by boyfriend Piers – and not doing anything to make her Coco dreams happen.
When the recession hits, it’s not just the economy that takes a tumble and Arielle finds herself living back with her parents, on bad terms with Piers, and having a CV that’s as welcome as a pair of knock-off Jimmy Choos. And maybe it’s the location, but she’s also finding unwelcome thoughts of her childhood sweetheart are popping into her head…
What’s a girl to do? Can Arielle figure out what it is she now wants to do with her life and move on, or will she be doomed to spend the rest of her life dwelling over her worst mistakes, stuck listening to her parents’ embarrassing dinner table talk each night?
Unfinished businessTitle: Unfinished Business
Author: Carolyn Aspenson
Received: From Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Synopsis: When 40-year-old Angela Panther’s mother Fran dies and comes back as a ghost, the ordinary, somewhat boring life Angela once knew quickly turns into a carnival show, starring both Angela and her nosy, dead mother.
It seems Fran’s got some unfinished business here on earth and she’s determined to get it done, no matter what.
That no matter what, however, ends up being a lot of something.
Fran was a feisty Italian woman who, even in death, is still fiercely protective of her family, so when her granddaughter is feeling the pressures of being a teenager, she can’t help but stick her transparent nose where it doesn’t belong.
And that just makes Angela’s life even crazier.
But Fran’s family meddling isn’t the only problem Angela has with her mother.
It seems when Fran came back from the dead, she reignited her daughter’s long suppressed psychic gift, one she knew about, but neglected to mention to Angela, and now Angela sees ghosts everywhere.
And they won’t leave her alone.
While Angela struggles to accept this newfound gift and help the dead, she’s also trying to find a way to keep her old life in tact.
All while trying to keep her dead mother out of trouble.
