Feisty Women's Fiction

"A woman gets a chance to start over in this romantic novel... centering on wish fulfillment." -Kirkus Reviews"An easy read, with a wonderful life-affirming storyline for women of a certain age. Life doesn't stop at 50 it just begins." -Secret Library Book BlogOn her 50th birthday, Missouri Rothman's expectations of a romantic trip to Tahiti and a surprise party take a sharp detour into a series of life-altering events. Instead of a fun birthday, a university student totals her car, her beloved job for 16 years is terminated, and her husband of 32 years asks for a divorce to marry his post-doc student with the 18-inch waist and perky boobs. Jobless and with only a high school diploma, Missouri must take the lemons life has tossed her and make the best lemonade possible.With encouragement and help from a former high school teacher, Missouri applies for and is accepted into the university's art school. After realizing Missouri's incredible artistic abilities, her art professor recommends her for the study abroad art program in Florence. In Italy, Missouri gains confidence, blossoms into a new woman, and gets a second chance at romance with a younger man.Making Lemonade is the story of a woman who has been wronged, yet finds the strength to pull herself out of the muck and begin life anew. Follow Missouri as she fights to overcome all obstacles and turn her life around.

"I liked the strong female characters that didn't back down. It is a great novel to show women that you can get positions just as easily as men and to not back down when being pushed into corners." -NetGalley Reviewer"...offers the reader a heroine with grace, gumption, and brains, who finds her way out of a difficult position with satisfying aplomb." -IndieReaderThe university's selection committee nominates Georgia Davis to become their first woman vice president - a job she's coveted for more than a quarter century. But the university's new president, Paul Van Horne, sours her plans by ignoring the committee and hiring Carl Overstreet, his old college buddy instead. In spite of her outrage and better judgment, Georgia begins having romantic feelings for the despicable scoundrel who is now her boss - at least until he fires her. But Van Horne and Overstreet soon learn that a Southern peach like Georgia does not go quietly into the compost bin. And Georgia discovers that revenge can taste as sweet as romance.Like Peaches and Pickles - a deliciously wicked story - will make you laugh, love and cheer for one Southern peach with a pit of steel.

After a debilitating stroke, Balmy Knight moves in with her daughter's family. As she begins to recover her health, she misses her independence. Finding her days full of tedious boredom, Balmy uses mischievous antics to add excitement to her life. Her only joy comes from disobeying her daughter's rules, aggravating her son-in-law, and feeding buttermilk biscuits to Jake, the homeless guy who lives in a cardboard box.Life becomes complicated when Balmy's old friend, Sunny Day-from her Broadway-performing days in the Sixties-arrives from Hollywood and invites her to share her luxury apartment in a high-rise retirement community. When her daughter forbids it, Balmy and Sunny plot to change her mind.After a visit to the Villas at Kensington Grove, Balmy's daughter realizes it would be the perfect place for her mother to live out her golden years. At the Villas, Balmy is wooed by a charming, rich British gentleman, who still has all his hair and teeth. But Balmy's heart longs for the mysterious Jake, who has vanished-along with his cardboard box.