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Dempsey’s Grill by Bryan Fagan
Dempsey’s Grill is a life-affirming story of young adults struggling to find their place in the grown-up world while still following their dreams.
Gibson thought he had it all: A beautiful girlfriend, a respectable job as a teacher, and the world’s most comfy couch – that is until he gets fired and his girlfriend kicks him out.
Forced to move back in with his parents, he slowly begins to pick up the pieces of a life he’s realizing he never even wanted.Back in his hometown Gibson reconnects with his high school best friend, Dempsey and his former lover, Gail. The trio gathers their meager savings and risks it all on opening a restaurant.
But things spiral out of control as they confront drug dealers, Dempsey’s growing attraction to Gibson’s sister, and Gail’s engagement to a long-haul trucker.
Can the trio of never-beens put aside their past failures, face the challenges of the restaurant industry, and find a place where love, friendship, and even hope, can bloom?
On the Run in Beverly Hills by Nancy Deville
Three 60-year old BFFs lives are simultaneously broadsided—Fifi a private-plane-rich Beverly Hills housewife; Lily, a celebrity herbalist; and Olive, a 21st century “sexy old maid” journalist.
Fifi’s husband drops dead, leaving her bankrupt. Lily is arrested for dealing weed because of her lowlife husband. Meanwhile, her house burns down. Olive learns she has the BRCA1 gene and needs a bilateral mastectomy to lower her risk for breast cancer. Her editor gives her one chance to write a smash hit story or her career is over.
After the homeless, husbandless, broke friends sob their eyes out over their downfall, Lily formulates a cream that erases their post-cry under eye bags, the active ingredient being CBD from, yes, weed.
Staying ahead of the bankruptcy courts, they sell Fifi’s estate at a garage sale, then sneak off to vault three million bucks.
Lily shares her under eye bag formula with Laine Marin, a venomous anti-drug DA candidate. Lily then launches her website with before and after pics of Laine.
Now the three are fugitives.
They hole up at an illegal grow deep in the forest where they’ve gone to acquire weed to produce the cream. Meanwhile they hope LA women will support them by voting for an initiative to legalize marijuana, which will save them AND their business.
All of this and the three have managed to fall in love along the way.
But Laine Marin has them tracked down and arrested, and reality really sets in.
See Through Me by Sera Bright
There’s only one person Katie Flynn wants to see when she returns to her hometown. But she knows he won’t be waiting there for her. It’s the reason she feels safe enough to finally come back.
She’s wrong.
Ash Townsend isn’t the same quiet boy from next door. He’s tall, dark, and demanding answers. He wants her, but he doesn’t trust her. Who can blame him? When his own family tried to break him down, he still sheltered her in a town full of liars. And Katie repaid it by leaving him behind without a word.
Because she’ll would do anything to protect Ash. She has the scars on her wrist to prove it.
Contains strong language, descriptive sexual situations, and mature themes. This novel is not intended for readers under the age of 18. First in a 2-part series featuring this couple.
