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The Starfish Sisters, September 2023
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Write My Name Across the Sky, August 2021
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When We Believed in Mermaids, July 2019
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The All You Can Dream Buffet, March 2014
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How To Bake A Perfect Life, January 2011
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The Secret of Everything, January 2010
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The Lost Recipe For Happiness, January 2009
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THE SCENT OF HOURS
By: Barbara O'Neal

Lake Union Publishing
June 2024
On Sale: June 4, 2024
316 pages
ISBN: 1662521375
EAN: 9781662521379
Kindle: B0CSH3JPFH
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Women's Fiction

A divorced perfumer navigates an uncertain but fresh new start in life in a poignant and witty novel about self-discovery by the USA Today bestselling author of When We Believed in Mermaids.

Nikki Bridges has it good. An enviable home in an upscale neighborhood, a heavenly-scented hobby making personal-blend perfumes, a cherished daughter, and comfortable rituals with a husband she loves. How was she to know it would all blow up with her husband’s affair, a blindsiding divorce, and an identity crisis she never saw coming?

With little money, less work experience, and a modest apartment, Nikki is tentatively moving on. Along the way: a waitressing job, a bond with an empathetic group of friends, and reentering the dating game at fortysomething. Luring her out of her funk is Niraj, an ex-Londoner with twinkling eyes and a hint of cinnamon and ginger. For the first time in a long time, Nikki feels a warm summer flush—and with it, a spark of inspiration.

On a liberating quest for self-expression and the courage to follow a dream, Nikki is blending the pieces of a new life into a fragrance that is uniquely and passionately her own.

Revised edition: This edition of The Scent of Hours includes editorial revisions.