Just Down the Road

Authors: Thomas, Jodi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC027020, FIC027100, FIC066000
ISBN: 9781101561485, Related ISBNs: 0425246922, 0425271870, 1101561483, 9780425246924, 9780425271872
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 336,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: Harmony, Texas, is a small town where dreams are born. As the residents face unexpected endings and new beginnings, they also come face to face with themselves—and what’s most important in life...

When Tinch Turner lost his wife, he gave up on living. Now he spends his nights brooding, boozing, and brawling. When one of his escapades lands him in the ER, he finds himself staring up at the beautiful new doctor in town. For the first time in years, he feels a spark, but Addison Spencer wants nothing to do with the unruly rancher—or any man for that matter. She’s only in Harmony four months, long enough for the trouble she left behind to be over. But then a vulnerable little boy barrels into both their lives, forcing them out of the past—and into a future where love is just down the road...

In the meantime, as Reagan Truman grieves for her beloved uncle, she finds comfort in the makeshift family she’s made in Harmony—and in a new baby, the first born in the Wright Funeral Home in 45 years, proving to everyone that life does go on...
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