St. Martin's Press
June 2015
On Sale: June 9, 2015
Featuring: Caroline MacAfee; Jamie MacAfee
416 pages ISBN: 1250007046 EAN: 9781250007049 Kindle: B00PP63PAQ Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Blueprints, the new novel from bestselling author
Barbara Delinsky, is the story of two strong women,
Caroline
MacAfee, a skilled carpenter, and her daughter Jamie, a
talented architect. The day after her 56th birthday,
Caroline is told the network wants Jamie to replace her as
the host on Gut It!, their family-based home
construction TV show. The resulting rift couldn't come at
a
worse time.
For Jamie, life changes overnight
when, soon after learning of the host shift, her father
and
his new wife die in a car accident that orphans their
two-year-old son. Accustomed to organization and planning,
she is now grappling with a toddler who misses his
parents,
a fiancé who doesn't want the child, a staggering new
attraction, and a work challenge that, if botched, could
undermine the future of both MacAfee Homes and Gut
It!
For Caroline, hosting Gut It! is
part of her identity. Facing its loss, she feels betrayed
by
her daughter and old in the eyes of the world. When her
ex-husband dies, she is thrust into the role of caregiver
to
his aging father. And then there's Dean, a long-time
friend,
whose efforts to seduce her awaken desires that have been
dormant for so long that she feels foreign to
herself.
Who am I? Both women ask, as the
blueprints they've built their lives around suddenly need
revising. While loyalties shift, decisions hover, and new
relationships tempt, their challenge comes not only in
remaking themselves, but in rebuilding their relationship
with each other.