Shirley Goldberg – författare

Love-cynical Lucy Bernard delights in her independence--baking, all things Instagram, the occasional fling, and most of all, hanging out with best friends Phoebe Karis and Deon Goldbloom. But when Deon kisses Lucy at the beach on a chilly afternoon, the two friends secretly jump into a lust-filled romantic weekend. So what's with slotting her into "ignore" status afterward? Too embarrassed to confide in Phoebe, she silently buries the humiliation. Deon is a widower who can't move on after his wife's death. Is he a little crazy spending a sexy few days with Lucy and calling it the best time he's had in four years? Yeah. Except blue Monday comes calling, and Deon isn't ready for the guilt. Lucy wonders how a smoochy weekend turns into a friends-with-benefits disaster. And Deon wonders if he's made the biggest mistake of his life. Using all his nerdy charms, he launches a campaign to bring Lucy around. Maybe they can chart a course back to one another if she will only forgive him.

Sunny Chanel's marriage is circling the drain when her husband marks his colonoscopy on the calendar and ignores their anniversary. With divorce papers instead of roses on the horizon, she says "e;au revoir"e; Paris and croissants, and "e;hello"e; cheap New Haven apartment and ramen noodles.    Encouraged by her friends, Sunny jumps into online dating, twenty-three years and twenty pounds after her last date. To her surprise she discovers dating might require a helmet, and occasionally armor to protect her heart, but after years of being ignored, her adventurous side craves fun and conversation. She's middle-aged not dead. Then suddenly, on the way to reinventing herself, life takes a left turn when the one man she can't forget calls with an unexpected request.

Widow Cassie Merrill wants to move on, she really does. A hundred percent. Okay, maybe eighty percent. Four years after her husband leaves "e;involuntarily,"e; a vacation to Crete with her best friend Bea seems like the perfect remedy to jumpstart her life. At the beach on their first day, Bea––always a sucker for a good head of hair––forms an attachment to a local hottie. She then pairs the reluctant Cassie with his tagalong cousin Stavros as a fourth for a too-cozy dinner. Not interested at first, Cassie knows that until she pushes past her old memories and fulfills the vow made to her husband, she will never move forward. Fighting FOMO––Fear of Moving On––she honors her pheromones and accepts Stavros' invitation to have lunch at his favorite beach, Legaria, drink a little retsina and swim in the Mediterranean. Despite his charming facade, Stavros has a case of the post-divorce blues he can't shake, and a young son with problems. Cassie's attention is a balm for his spirit and soul, and for the first time in a long time, Stavros fears for his heart. Cassie battles her rising panic. With Stavros' kindness and energy and bossy yet loyal Bea egging her on to let go of the past, Cassie just might find romance again. Will their love affair last longer than one Hot Greek Summer?