

The Far End of Happy by Kathryn Craft
This book is at the far end of romance. It is about a failed marriage and divorce, but every good divorce story orignates from a love story. Craft has written a story about love that dies a slow death. Since the tragedy of any divorce is grounded in the loss of true intimacy, as a romance writer, this premise is worth looking at. The story takes place during the course of the day of Jeff, the husband's, suicide standoff. Ronnie, our protagonist, has filed for divorce from th


Just Over the Mountain by Robyn Carr
Dr. June Hudson is content with her small-town Northern California life, surrounded by family and quirky, familiar friends… and an often-absent secret lover on the side. But she gets a curveball in the form of Chris, her high school boyfriend, who had returned from big city life, divorced and pushing for another chance. Well, that’s the official blurb, but this reading writer would say that the book is just as much about the bones found in June’s batty old aunt’s back yard, t