Böcker av Sally Kilpatrick

From a USA Today bestselling author comes a poignant, funny, and heartfelt novel about a wife and mother grabbing hold of a second chance she never saw coming.Vivian Quackenbush enjoys a typical life. She has winesday evenings with her two best friends. Her son is in college. She and her husband, Mitch, are planning the next move for their empty-nester future. But to Vivian's blindsided surprise...not together.After nearly twenty-five years of marriage, Mitch wants a divorce. He confesses that he doesn't love her anymore. He never even liked her chicken salad! Brutal. What is Vivian to do but channel her anger, frustration, and pain into a video she posts online. Ill advised? Perhaps. Cathartic? Absolutely. Overnight, Vivian goes viral. Millions of views and counting--to Mitch's fury, her son's embarrassment, her mother's support, and the media's delight. For Vivian, it's a moment of truth: hide or lean into it. Vivian 2.0 chooses to lean--maybe even toward the younger single father next door.Now Vivian is wondering where she goes from here. She's discovering that somewhere in her trending if upended life, she'll have to figure out who she really wants to be.

Aubrey Longfellow has to do three selfless things by Christmas Day or be doomed to the Naughty List. Could helping her worst enemy be her ticket to making the Nice List?

Return to Ellery, Tennessee for Sally Kilpatrick's saucy new novel about two warring barbecue houses.Emma Sutton promised herself three things: she would never move back to Ellery, never work in the family barbecue restaurant, and never have anything to do with Ben Cates ever again. Losing her job and her home might've forced her to break the first two, but she's determined to keep the third.Unlike Emma, Ben Cates has made peace with his hometown. He wants nothing more than to make his restaurant something his father couldn't: a success. But between his hellraising little sister and Emma Sutton's return to Ellery, his dream could easily be snatched away.Emma and Ben might've made each other's childhood a living hell with their endless pranks, but the only way to finally get rid of the other is to win the coveted contract for Ellery's annual barbecue festival. Seems easy enough-until attraction ignites like a charcoal flame, and happiness seeps in like a surprising new flavor.Can they find the courage to forgive bitter past mistakes and let trust into the mix, or will devastating secrets burn everything down again?