Birthday Girls
A Loveswept Classic Romance
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Publisher Description
In this poignant, exhilarating novel, three enormously successful career women face their regrets, rewrite their wrongs, and take one last shot at a happy birthday.
Abigail is a star, a Martha Stewart type with a weekly TV show and millions of loyal fans. Maddie is a brilliant photographer who shoots for a hip magazine. And Kris is a bestselling author whose taut thrillers fly off the shelves. As girls, they celebrated birthdays together, sharing laughter and tears and hopes for the future. Then they lost touch. Now, on the brink of turning fifty, Abigail reaches out to reconnect.
Once again, Abigail, Maddie, and Kris will spend time together to toast their birthdays. But this year, they’re all too aware of the childhood dreams that never came true. One of them carries a dark, tormenting secret; another is obsessed with the man she loved and lost; a third will give anything to start over. Haunted by the passage of time, all three will go to any length to make sure their wishes come true.
Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from these Loveswept titles: Mistletoe and Magic, Claimed, and After the Kiss.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Imagine a follow-up star vehicle to The First Wives Club for Diane Keaton and Bette Midler (Goldie Hawn loses out--replaced by Whitney Houston, perhaps), and you know all you need to know about Stone's (Places by the Sea) latest. Abigail Hardy (a Martha Stewart clone), Maddie Daniels (think Annie Liebovitz) and Kris Kensington (bestselling African American writer a la Terry McMillan), were best friends at a tony Westchester girls' prep school. As girls, they used to make birthday wishes, and now as they face 49, Abigail convenes a reunion-cum-birthday lunch and makes a startling proposal that each of them helps the others make a last birthday wish a reality. But what more could these well-coifed and outwardly successful women in full-blown mid-life crisis want? Except for Abigail, the most deeply troubled of the trio, what they crave is underwhelming, a rapprochement with an ex-lover, a late-life baby. Birthday Girls is an often-engaging read, but the cliched plot ultimately disappoints.
