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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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He’s stubborn. She’s tougher. His kid? Already picked the bride.


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A small-town second chance wrapped in danger, desire, and Sharon Sala heart.


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She came home to save the ranch… and found the cowboy she never forgot.


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From reality TV heartbreak to real-life reinvention.


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A missing twin. A deadly cartel. One K-9 team caught in the crossfire.


The Restaurant Critic's Wife by Elizabeth LaBan

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Also by Elizabeth LaBan:

Beside Herself, November 2019
Trade Size / e-Book
Not Perfect, February 2018
Trade Size / e-Book
Pretty Little World, January 2017
Trade Size / e-Book
The Restaurant Critic's Wife, January 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
The Tragedy Paper, February 2013
Hardcover / e-Book

THE RESTAURANT CRITIC'S WIFE
By: Elizabeth LaBan

Lake Union
January 2016
On Sale: January 5, 2016
310 pages
ISBN: 147781776X
EAN: 9781477817766
Kindle: B00VVWB07S
Hardcover / e-Book
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Contemporary Women's Fiction

Lila Soto has a master’s degree that’s gathering dust, a work-obsessed husband, two kids, and lots of questions about how exactly she ended up here.

In their new city of Philadelphia, Lila’s husband, Sam, takes his job as a restaurant critic a little too seriously. To protect his professional credibility, he’s determined to remain anonymous. Soon his preoccupation with anonymity takes over their lives as he tries to limit the family’s contact with anyone who might have ties to the foodie world. Meanwhile, Lila craves adult conversation and some relief from the constraints of her homemaker role. With her patience wearing thin, she begins to question everything: her decision to get pregnant again, her break from her career, her marriageβ€”even if leaving her ex-boyfriend was the right thing to do. As Sam becomes more and more fixated on keeping his identity secret, Lila begins to wonder if her own identity has completely disappearedβ€”and what it will take to get it back.

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