Bed and Breakup
A Novel
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- 37,99 zł
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- 37,99 zł
Publisher Description
“A small-town second-chance romance that celebrates the joy of art, food, and chosen family with a scorching hot love story impossible not to root for.”—Amy Spalding, bestselling author of For Her Consideration
Two exes reunite to fix up and sell the bed-and-breakfast that destroyed their marriage—because some dreams, no matter how dusty or broken, deserve a second chance.
Their love story is a bit of a fixer-upper.
As newlyweds, Molly and Robin made the Hummingbird Inn into a trendy destination for queer travelers in the quirky mountain town of Eureka Springs, Arkansas. But when their career ambitions drove them apart, the young couple separated, handed over the property’s upkeep to a management firm, and never looked back.
Seven years later, Molly and Robin return to the Hummingbird Inn for very different reasons. Molly is an artist on the rise who’s been commissioned to create pieces in Eureka Springs; Robin is a celebrity chef whose restaurants have gone belly-up. Both feel entitled to their shared property, furious that the other refuses to leave, and each resorts to a series of escalating pranks in the hopes of scaring the other off. When neither woman budges, they resolve to renovate the bed-and-breakfast together, sell it, and at last go their separate ways. But their work to restore the inn’s vintage charm reignites memories—and chemistry—that make it hard to say goodbye.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dumond's breezy latest (after Looking for a Sign) is just as fun and astrologically influenced as fans will expect. Ex-wives Molly, a stained glass artist, and Robin, a celebrity chef, unexpectedly come face-to-face after seven years apart when they both return to the site of their breakup: the Hummingbird Inn, the queer-friendly bed-and-breakfast they co-own but which fell into disuse after their breakup and the Covid pandemic. Molly's there to work on a piece, while Robin needs to lick her wounds after a career setback. Surrounded by the remnants of their old life together in Eureka Springs, Ark., the women recall all the things they enjoyed and missed rather than dwell on their anger toward each other. It's almost a Parent Trap situation, except instead of offspring forcing them together, it's a piece of property—as well as the matchmaking locals, who are all eager to see Molly and Robin back together. The plot plays out somewhat predictably and there's not quite enough to distinguish the heroines from one another, but the romance is sweet and the setting is endearing. Lovers of small-town lesbian romance are sure to be entertained.
