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Wish Upon a Rosie
A new tear-jerker from Jenn Sommersby writing as Eliza Gordon
Rosie Grant finds purpose in helping others face their darkest moments through her nonprofit, Wish Upon a Rosie. It’s how she quiets the guilt she’s carried since childhood after her father’s deeply selfish choices tore the Grants to shreds.
When Rosie catches her fiancé engaged in conduct unbecoming at their shared workplace, she thinks she’s hit rock bottom. Then a devastating accident brings Ben Strong into her life—a documentary filmmaker who has just lost nearly everyone he loves and now faces an impossible fight to save what remains of his family.
As Rosie helps Ben honor his sister’s final wishes, the two of them form a fragile bond. But Rosie is keeping a secret that will very likely destroy the trust they’ve built—and she’s running out of time to come clean.
Wish Upon a Rosie is a story about the wreckage family can leave behind, the risks we take to make things right, and the gut-deep courage it takes to choose yourself when everything else falls apart.
Rosie Grant finds purpose in helping others face their darkest moments through her nonprofit, Wish Upon a Rosie. It’s how she quiets the guilt she’s carried since childhood after her father’s deeply selfish choices tore the Grants to shreds.
When Rosie catches her fiancé engaged in conduct unbecoming at their shared workplace, she thinks she’s hit rock bottom. Then a devastating accident brings Ben Strong into her life—a documentary filmmaker who has just lost nearly everyone he loves and now faces an impossible fight to save what remains of his family.
As Rosie helps Ben honor his sister’s final wishes, the two of them form a fragile bond. But Rosie is keeping a secret that will very likely destroy the trust they’ve built—and she’s running out of time to come clean.
Wish Upon a Rosie is a story about the wreckage family can leave behind, the risks we take to make things right, and the gut-deep courage it takes to choose yourself when everything else falls apart.
296 pages, ebook
Published February 10, 2026
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About the author
Eliza Gordon
26 books554 followersBest-selling author, freelance editor, and supercaffeinated entrepreneur Jennifer Sommersby has worked in the publishing biz for over twenty years.
Writing under Sommersby and Eliza Gordon, Jenn is the award-winning author of thirteen novels and three novellas. Her YA debut Sleight was named a Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Book for Kids & Teens (Fall 2018) and an Ontario Library Association Best Bets Honourable Mention (2019). She also was awarded a BC Arts Council Grant in 2019 for a climate fiction work-in-progress (The Bright Day Is Done). Her rom-com debut, Must Love Otters (as Eliza Gordon), hit #1 in the Barnes & Noble store in 2014, with additional titles reaching top 100 charts on Amazon, Apple Books, and Kobo.
Her editorial résumé (via Plumfield Editing) includes many projects from numerous internationally best-selling and seven-figure authors from Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia. Through her company SGA Books (sgabooks.com), she supports indie authors through editorial services, publishing resources, and mentorship. When invited, she presents webinars, workshops, and classes on whatever juicy publishing topic the organizer desires and is occasionally called in to mentor fellow authors with their terrific work.
In 2026, she will expand her teaching portfolio with a series of live and on-demand publishing intensives via SGA Books and is looking forward to publishing her FIRST nonfiction craft/confessional/how-to called Please Don't Make Me Read This.
Writing under Sommersby and Eliza Gordon, Jenn is the award-winning author of thirteen novels and three novellas. Her YA debut Sleight was named a Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Book for Kids & Teens (Fall 2018) and an Ontario Library Association Best Bets Honourable Mention (2019). She also was awarded a BC Arts Council Grant in 2019 for a climate fiction work-in-progress (The Bright Day Is Done). Her rom-com debut, Must Love Otters (as Eliza Gordon), hit #1 in the Barnes & Noble store in 2014, with additional titles reaching top 100 charts on Amazon, Apple Books, and Kobo.
Her editorial résumé (via Plumfield Editing) includes many projects from numerous internationally best-selling and seven-figure authors from Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia. Through her company SGA Books (sgabooks.com), she supports indie authors through editorial services, publishing resources, and mentorship. When invited, she presents webinars, workshops, and classes on whatever juicy publishing topic the organizer desires and is occasionally called in to mentor fellow authors with their terrific work.
In 2026, she will expand her teaching portfolio with a series of live and on-demand publishing intensives via SGA Books and is looking forward to publishing her FIRST nonfiction craft/confessional/how-to called Please Don't Make Me Read This.
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February 9, 2026
Full of vibrant energy, this book features a spunky protagonist I’d like to keep in my life after the last page. Sometimes brash, but also nuanced and beautiful, it was a fun read.
5 ⭐️s—I highly recommend it.
(Publication date is Tuesday, February 10.)
Wonderful! Review to come….
5 ⭐️s—I highly recommend it.
(Publication date is Tuesday, February 10.)
Wonderful! Review to come….
February 10, 2026
I read an earlier pre-publication version of this novel and it is just delightful. Warm, funny, and slightly shocking at times.
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