Beth Kendrick

"Welcome to Black Dog Bay, a tiny seaside town in Delaware known as "the best place in America to bounce back from your breakup." Home to Better Off Bed-and-Breakfast, the Eat Your Heart Out bakery, and the Whinery bar, Black Dog Bay offers a haven for the suddenly single. Flight attendant Summer Benson lives by two rules: Don't stay with the same man for too long and never stay in one place. She's about to break rule number one by considering accepting...

"The author of New Uses for Old Boyfriends returns to the Delaware seashore town of Black Dog Bay, where one woman learns to put passion before practicality... Brighton Smith doesn't do outrageous. As an insurance actuary, it's her job to assess risk and avoid bad investments. But when her fianc�e calls to confess he's married someone else on a whim ("I looked at her and I just knew!"), she snaps... That night, at a local bar, Jake Sorenson--hot,...

After enduring a chaotic childhood, Emily yearns for a drama-free life, complete with a white picket fence. Her dreams are about to come true, but as friends and family arrive in picturesque Valentine, Vermont, for her wedding, an uninvited guest shows up. Ryan is Emily's first husband from a disastrous starter marriage. He's now a successful film producer who just happens to be scouting a resort in Valentine with his adorable retriever in tow. Emily...

Cammie Breyer needs a big glass of cabernet-her restaurant failed and her chef boyfriend left for a hotter kitchen. Just when she thinks she's hit rock bottom, her Aunt Ginger calls with a surprise. She's bought a vineyard-in Delaware. At Ginger's command, Cammie returns to Black Dog Bay, the seaside town where she spent her childhood summers with her aunt and her cousin, Kat. The three women reunite, determined to succeed. There's only one little...

Becca Davis has always played it safe – denying her passion for fashion design in a dead-end job and letting her pragmatic boyfriend (mastermind of the "Kevin Bradley Ten-Year Plan") make the tough decisions in life. Stunned into saying yes when Mr. Predictable springs a surprise proposal on her, Becca realizes that she's running out of time to turn her life around. She's only got one more chance to chase her dreams and no one – not her control-freak...

Every summer, four college friends hold a mini-reunion. They laugh, reminisce, and commiserate about their soul-sucking jobs. Maybe they should have listened to everyone who warned them to study something "practical. " Then an unexpected windfall arrives-one million dollars, to be exact-with the stipulation that they use it to jump-start their new careers. Almost overnight, a professor, a bartender, a copywriter, and an administrative assistant reinvent...

Everyone says the first year of marriage is the hardest…but what would you do if you found out that you were never really married in the first place? An irresistible, romantic comedy from award-winning author Beth Kendrick – three wildly different women form an unlikely friendship as they try to decide whether they'd re-do their I Do's. They've had the white dresses and the fancy receptions. But now that the honeymoon's over, Stella, Casey, and...