Jessica Topper
Amazon Blurb -
In this powerful debut novel, a young librarian grieves the loss of her husband...and discovers a love that defies classification.
It's been over three years since a train accident made a widow of Katrina Lewis, sending her and her young daughter Abbey back to the suburban town of her youth...the only place that still makes sense. Lauder Lake is the perfect place to hide and heal.
Recluse rocker Adrian "Digger" Graves survived the implosion of his music career, but his muse has long lain dormant. Until Kat hires him to play at her library—not on the basis of his hard rock credentials but rather, because of the obscure kids' TV jingle he wrote years ago. In a case of mistaken identity, Adrian stumbles into the lives of Kat and her comically lovable daughter.
Using tattoos as a timeline, Adrian unfurls his life for Kat. But as the courtship intensifies, it's unclear whose past looms larger: the widow's or the rocker's. Will their demons ever rest, or will they break these soul mates apart?
*****
Break out the tissues girls, this story will have you laughing and crying! A great story crafted with vibrant characters that you can't help but love.
Katrina and Pete are living a wonderful life. New parents residing in Manhattan, assessing themselves to all the culture this wonderful city has to offer with their daughter Abbey. A fairytale till a train wreck leaves Katrina a widow with her barely year old daugnter. Deciding to move back to her childhood home Lauder Lake N.Y. with her parents, she is surrounded by her best friends from growing up. Her parents leave her the house and fly south to be Floridians.
Fast forward four years and Abbey is a funny sweet little girl who has a love for PBS character Maxwell MacGillikitty cat sleuth. Katrina goes on a sleuthing mission of her own to find Adrian Graves,the man who sings the show's jingle to see if he'll sing for the kids at the town's library.
Not only does he agree, this older tattooed Brittish rocker knocks her off her feet and the two start a relationship. Kat, as Adrian likes to call her, is falling head over heals for this man and the feeling is mutual. Her best friends Marissa, Liz, and Leanna wait with baited breath after each outing to learn how it went. They are excited yet a bit nervous for their friend, not wanting her to be hurt again. What an exciting ride to travel this road back to life with Katrina. It's like you're right there with her feeling all her nerves, worries, and elation as she starts to fall in love with him.
I loved experiencing her excitement, sorrow, happiness and anger. This book was such a joy. From her best friends, to her high school sweetheart Grant who was a jerk with a capital J, to Adrian fighting the feeling of competing with a ghost.
If there was only one thing that I had a hard time with, it was the description of Adrian. For some reason I couldn't get Rod Stewart out of my head. I kept pushing that image away. Read this book, you will laugh, cry, get angry and feel good. Jessica Topper writes with such ease it's like a lucsious vanilla custard, simple yet so devine. She is able to make you coast through the book feeling like you're right there with all of them!
4 cannolis
If there was only one thing that I had a hard time with, it was the description of Adrian. For some reason I couldn't get Rod Stewart out of my head. I kept pushing that image away. Read this book, you will laugh, cry, get angry and feel good. Jessica Topper writes with such ease it's like a lucsious vanilla custard, simple yet so devine. She is able to make you coast through the book feeling like you're right there with all of them!
4 cannolis
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