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Melissa Trombetta

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Melissa Trombetta writes emotionally grounded contemporary romance about second chances, reinvention, and the kind of love that shows up when you least expect it. She is a wife, a mother of two grown kids, and a longtime member of corporate America who dances at country music festivals like no one is watching. Her stories are inspired by real life, imperfect choices, and the belief that it’s never too late to start again.

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How Ina Garten Sent a Cowboy Swaggering Into My Kitchen... Sort Of

I innocently (or not so innocently) downloaded Sawyer by Jessica Peterson for an easy summer listen that may or may not include a hot, protective, surprisingly insightful cowboy (my new kink, apparently).

Well, since we're getting parenthetically personal here, I might as well also confess that one mention of Ina Garten's chicken pot pie by Ava in the story sent my imagination from Sawyer

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When Lemons Give You Life: A Novel

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