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Kristan Higgins | A Family Surprise
Author Guest / June 6, 2023

1–What is the title of your latest release? A LITTLE RAY OF SUNSHINE 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A kid walks into the cute little bookstore you own with your grandfather. Turns out he’s the son you placed for adoption 18 years ago. Surprise! Your secret is out, and all of a sudden, your whole family – and the whole town – realizes there’s more to you than they thought. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Cape Cod is the place I love best in the world. My ashes will be scattered there. As the setting for a book, well, it’s got everything – locals, summer people, the ocean, the beautiful towns, lovely restaurants. There are glacial ponds and salt marshes, glorious sunsets, whales, seals, sharks, and the sky is achingly blue. What better place for a reader to take a mental vacation? 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? OH, absolutely. She and I would slay on trivia night. We would eat, watch Game of Thrones reruns and read in her charming little bookstore. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? Kind, funny, hungry. Food always…

Kristan Higgins | Author-Reader Match: OUT OF THE CLEAR BLUE SKY
Author Guest / June 3, 2022

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Kristan Higgins!   Writes: Funny, heartfelt, women’s fiction and romance with the occasional cathartic ugly-cry. Always ends books with the happiest, most fulfilled feeling you can imagine. OUT OF THE CLEAR BLUE SKY: The night before her son graduates from high school, Lillie Silva finds out her husband has been cheating and plans to leave her for a much younger, much wealthier, and irritatingly gorgeous widow. Heartbroken? Well, sure. Furious? Absolutely. As she wreaks a little havoc on Brad’s new life, Lillie starts learning that she’s more than a mother, wife and nurse…she’s also an impressive badass with more allies than she realized. Life isn’t done surprising her with new forks in the road, from redefining her relationship with her glamorous older sister, to taking a new look at an old acquaintance. Can it be love? It sure can. About: Hi, I’m Kristan, and I love to laugh, play with dogs and babies, and eat dessert. I’m an avid reader, a fan of yoga…

Fresh Pick | WAITING ON YOU by Kristan Higgins
Fresh Pick / March 26, 2014

Blue Heron April 2014 On Sale: March 25, 2014 Featuring: Colleen O’Rourke; Lucas Campbell 384 pages ISBN: 0373778589 EAN: 9780373778584 Kindle: B00GPDYMAA Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List Romance ContemporaryBuy at Amazon.com #RomanceWednesday Get the Best Waiting On You by Kristan Higgins Is your first love worth a second chance? Colleen O’Rourke is in love with love…just not when it comes to herself. Most nights, she can be found behind the bar at the Manningsport, New York, tavern she owns with her twin brother, doling out romantic advice to the lovelorn, mixing martinis and staying more or less happily single. See, ten years ago, Lucas Campbell broke her heart…an experience Colleen doesn’t want to have again, thanks. Since then, she’s been happy with a fling here and there, some elite-level flirting and playing matchmaker to her friends. But a family emergency has brought Lucas back to town, handsome as ever and still the only man who’s ever been able to crack her defenses. Seems like maybe they’ve got some unfinished business waiting for them—but to find out, Colleen has to let her guard down, or risk losing a second chance with the only man she’s ever loved. This Charming,…

Fresh Pick | TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE by Kristan Higgins
Fresh Pick / August 7, 2010

February 2009 On Sale: February 1, 2009 Featuring: Grace Emerson; Callahan O’Shea 384 pages ISBN: 0373773552 EAN: 9780373773558 Mass Market Paperback $6.99 Add to Wish List Romance Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Congrats! The 2010 RITA Winner for Best Contemporary Single Title Romance Too Good To Be True by Kristan Higgins How can a made-up Mr. Right be all wrong? When Grace Emerson’s ex-fiancé starts dating her younger sister, extreme measures are called for. To keep everyone from obsessing about her love life, Grace announces that she’s seeing someone. Someone wonderful. Someone handsome. Someone completely made up. Who is this Mr. Right? Someone…exactly unlike her renegade neighbor Callahan O’Shea. Well, someone with his looks, maybe. His hot body. His knife-sharp sense of humor. His smarts and big heart. Whoa. No. Callahan O’Shea is not her perfect man! Not with his unsavory past. So why does Mr. Wrong feel so…right? Looking for Mr. Right is a full time job! Excerpt “And so with this one act, Lincoln changed the course of American history. He was one of the most despised figures in politics in his day, yet he preserved the Union and is considered the greatest president our country ever had. And…