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With Papa dead and Mama in assisted living, Mona Lisa Buttaro plans to sell the family home and restaurant, but her quirky brother, Joey, is a roadblock. Joey works at the family restaurant, and if she sells Booty’s where else could Joey work?
Mona Lisa hires former classmate Cliff McFarlane to do repairs on the family home. Newly sober, Cliff was in the popular crowd that excluded her in the past, but she is still attracted to him — not that she’d let him know. Mona Lisa wonders if she should give up on all men — unless she could find one like Papa, whom she idolized. Then she makes an outrageous discovery.
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When Ruth Ann Templeton’s husband, Drew, leaves her for another woman Ruthie is devastated. She seeks solace at their beach cabin in Puget Sound where she meets Victor, a neurologist who has marital problems of his own. Their relationship blossoms just as Ruthie’s husband moves home asking for forgiveness. But can Ruthie trust and forgive him or any man?
Thanks to a DNA test, Annette Dupont’s world is flipped upside-down when she discovers her life is built upon lies. Determined to find her birthmother in Lancaster County, PA, she uncovers her Amish family’s secrets as a torrential storm barrels in.
Annette has sworn off men but finds she cannot resist attractive Mennonite Matt Miller, even when she discovers another woman is pursuing him.
In the end, will Annette find healing, family, and love?
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