Middle-aged, Maggie Abernathy just wants to recuperate from cancer during the solitude of summer vacation after a tiresome year of teaching second grade. Maggie’s plans are foiled when precocious seven-year-old Chloe McIntyre moves in next door with her dad, John. Maggie’s life changes in a way she could never imagine when the pesky new neighbors steal her heart. With Maggie’s grown son away, her … son away, her ex-husband in the shadows, her meddling mother’s unannounced visits, and Chloe McIntyre on her heels, somehow Maggie’s empty house becomes home again.
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Great book!
This is a book in a series that you don’t want toisd. This story draws you in and makes you want more.
Loved this book and have gone on to read the next two in the series. Great author!!
Well written, charming story, makes you laugh, could make you cry…
Loved the characters… a pleasure to read this author.
A great easy summer read. I like that the main character is NOT a 20 something with a perfect body. Maggie is approaching middle age with courage, humor, and grace. I am a middle aged woman, and I appreciate a book that says there is still room for exciting and great changes, that are usually associated with the younger crowd.
Just a delight!
I enjoyed the totally relateable characters and the situations they found themselves in.
Part one of three. Cliffhanger.
Great book. Reading the last of the 3 in this series now and loved all of them.
Very well written and engaging novel. Glad this is a 3 book series, as I was not ready to let the characters go at the end of the book.
Good read. Fun n enjoyable
would recommend
Great read. Didn’t want it to end.
I hope the other books in this series will be available on Bookbub.
Maggie’s just been hit with a summer full of middle age life’s worst surprises: breast cancer, finding out her the love of her life husband is gay, divorce and a needy seven year old whirlwind moving in next door. On top of all of this Maggie realizes that she has compromised her own dreams away and now is time to figure out what she wants while battling cancer and being tired from radiation treatments. This is not a depressing read, it’s actually a romance novel with a probable happily ever after. There is another book that continues Maggie’s journey that I haven’t read yet, but this one feels complete.