ABOUT
RAINY DAY FRIENDS
Following the USA Today bestseller, Lost and Found Sisters, comes Rainy Day Friends, Jill Shalvis’ moving story of heart, loss, betrayal, and friendship.
Six
months after Lanie Jacobs’ husband’s death, it’s hard to imagine
anything could deepen her sense of pain and loss. But then Lanie
discovers she isn’t the only one grieving
his sudden passing. A serial adulterer, he left behind several other
women who, like Lanie, each believe she was his legally wedded
wife. Rocked by the infidelity, Lanie is left to grapple with searing
questions. How could she be so wrong about a man she thought
she knew better than anyone? Will she ever be able to trust another
person? Can she even trust herself?
Desperate
to make a fresh start, Lanie impulsively takes a job at the family-run
Capriotti Winery. At first, she feels like an outsider among the
boisterous Capriottis. With
no real family of her own, she’s bewildered by how quickly they all
take her under their wing and make her feel like she belongs. Especially
Mark Capriotti, a gruffly handsome Air Force veteran turned deputy
sheriff who manages to wind his way into Lanie’s
cold, broken heart—along with the rest of the clan. Everything is
finally going well for her, but the arrival of River Green changes all
that. The fresh-faced twenty-one-year old seems as sweet as they
come…until her dark secrets come to light—secrets that
could destroy the new life Lanie’s only just begun to build.
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Excerpt
Chapter 1
Anxiety Girl, able to jump to the worst
conclusion in a single bound!
Most of the time Karma was a bitch,
but every once in awhile she could be surprisingly nice, even kind. Lanie
Jacobs, way past overdue for both of those things, told herself this was her
time. Seize the day and all that, and drawing a deep breath, she exited the
highway at Wildstone.
The old wild-west California town was nestled
in the rolling hills between the Pacific Coast and wine/ranching country. She’d
actually grown up not too far from here, though it felt like a lifetime ago. The
road was narrow and curvy, and since it’d rained earlier, she added tricky and slick
to her growing list of issues. She was already white-knuckling a sharp turn
when a kamikaze squirrel darted into her lane, causing her to nearly swerve into
oncoming traffic before remembering the rules of country driving.
Never
leave your lane; not for weather, animals, or even God himself.
Luckily the squirrel reversed
direction, but before she could relax a trio of deer bounded across the road.
“Run, Bambi,” she cried, hitting her brakes, and by the skin of their
collective teeth, they all missed each other.
Sweating, nerves sizzling like live
wires, she finally turned onto Capriotti Lane and parked as she’d been
instructed.
It took a moment for her pulse to come
down from stroke level. She’d been taught anti-anxiety techniques, but she’d
never quite figured out how to make any of them work while in the actual throes
of an anxiety attack.
It’s
all good she told herself but because she wasn’t buying what she was
selling, she had to force herself out of the car like she was a five year old
starting kindergarten instead of being thirty and simply facing a brand new
job. Given all she’d been through, this should be easy, even fun. But sometimes
adulthood felt like the vet’s office and she was the dog excited for the car
ride -- only to find out the real destination.
Shaking her head, she strode across
the parking lot. It was April, which meant the rolling hills to the east were
green and lush and the Pacific Ocean to the west looked like a surfer’s dream,
all of it so gorgeous it could’ve been a postcard. A beautiful smoke screen
over her not-so-beautiful past. The air was scented like a really expensive
sea-and-earth candle, though all Lanie
could smell was her forgotten hopes and dreams. With wood chips crunching under
her shoes, she headed through the entrance beneath which was a huge wooden sign
that read:
Capriotti
Winery, from our fields to your table…
Her heart sped up. Nerves, of course,
the bane of her existence. But after a very crappy few years, she was changing
her path. For once in her godforsaken life, something was going to work out for
her. This was going to work out for
her.
She was grimly determined.
What I thought about Rainy Day Friends
The synopsis does a good job of giving the highlights of Rainy Day Friends, so there's no need to spoil with more details. I really adored this book, and it is definitely going on my favorites of 2018 list. It's not your typical second chance love story.
The Capriotti's define the word "family" as they are pushy, in everyone's business and loving and kind to all they care for, including Lanie and River. Cora, the no-nonsense generous matriarch of the family is a delight with her extended family. They're completely unlike any family Lanie has experienced.
Lanie doesn't quite know how to handle the family, but she does feel the spark between her and Mark, the sexy sheriff with two adorable little girls. They've both been hurt so it's difficult for them to open up to each other, although it happens anyway. I adored how these two fell in love with each other. It was fun and playful and just right (and hot!). I truly appreciated the lightness to this story -- it balanced what happened in the past so perfectly.
River provides an interesting twist to the story that made it feel fresh and kept me turning the pages. The relationships between the women in this story are superb and engaging -- it was great to see these friendships and how they supported to each other.
I liked so much about this beautiful story of finding true love that I'm ready to give it a re-read again. It really left me in a happy place, and that's priceless.
So if you are looking for a contemporary romance with good pacing, likable characters, a very fresh and interesting story line that will leave you wanting more this might be for you! It doesn't get much better than that!The Capriotti's define the word "family" as they are pushy, in everyone's business and loving and kind to all they care for, including Lanie and River. Cora, the no-nonsense generous matriarch of the family is a delight with her extended family. They're completely unlike any family Lanie has experienced.
Lanie doesn't quite know how to handle the family, but she does feel the spark between her and Mark, the sexy sheriff with two adorable little girls. They've both been hurt so it's difficult for them to open up to each other, although it happens anyway. I adored how these two fell in love with each other. It was fun and playful and just right (and hot!). I truly appreciated the lightness to this story -- it balanced what happened in the past so perfectly.
River provides an interesting twist to the story that made it feel fresh and kept me turning the pages. The relationships between the women in this story are superb and engaging -- it was great to see these friendships and how they supported to each other.
I liked so much about this beautiful story of finding true love that I'm ready to give it a re-read again. It really left me in a happy place, and that's priceless.
ABOUT
JILL SHALVIS
New York Times bestselling
author Jill Shalvis lives in a small town in the Sierras full of
quirky characters. Any resemblance to the quirky characters in her
books is, um, mostly coincidental. Look for Jill’s bestselling,
award-winning books wherever romances are sold and visit her website,
www.jillshalvis.com, for a complete book list and daily blog detailing her city-girl-living-in-the-
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