Author: ashleyelston

With nearly 4,500 five-star Goodreads ratings: When heartbroken Sophie winds up spending the holidays at her grandparents’ house, her family devises an unusual plan: Over the course of 10 days, she’ll go on 10 blind dates, each set up by a different relative! “POSITIVELY DELIGHTFUL — all caps — from beginning to end” (NPR).

Owen Foster has never wanted for anything. Then his mother shows up at his elite New Orleans boarding school cradling a bombshell: his privileged life has been funded by stolen money. After using the family business, the single largest employer in his small Louisiana town, to embezzle millions and drain the employees’ retirement accounts, Owen’s father vanished without a trace, leaving Owen and … and his mother to deal with the fallout. Owen returns to Lake Cane to finish his senior year, where people he hardly remembers despise him for his father’s crimes. It’s bad enough dealing with muttered insults…