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It’s not every day that a former Interview intern becomes the costume designer for one of the years most talked-about biopics. From Canal Street to Hollywood, Paolo Nieddu is quickly making a name for himself in both film and television. As the costume designer for Lee Daniels‘ TV drama Empire, it only made sense for the duo to get back together for Daniels’ latest directorial venture. The United States Vs. Billie Holiday follows the musician as she’s continuously targeted by law enforcement in an attempt to stop her from performing the anti-lynching protest song “Strange Fruit.” The biopic stars Andra Day in a role that just made her the second Black woman in history to win the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama. To get a closer look at how Day became Holiday, Nieddu brought it all full circle and sat down with his alma mater to discuss ’40s fashion, achieving Holiday’s signature style, and the most challenging aspect of designing an era.
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Andra Day as Billie Holiday
“Billie was cool because we weren’t doing your typical birth to adolescence to fame journey with her. We were starting with her at a point in her career where she was already established. So that was a really great jumping-off point for me in terms of figuring out how she was going to look. I just started gathering all of these different images and separating them. “Here’s Billie in shirts, here’s Billie in dresses, here’s Billie in pants,” and seeing what she looked like and how she wore her clothes and how she accessorized herself. That’s how I started to get my direction, whether I was sketching something pen to paper, or whether I was going into a vintage archival house, or looking online. I don’t have a singular favorite [costume], but I love the black gown in Carnegie Hall. That was one that I did. It was old Hollywood. It was so simple and yet so glamorous. I love the yellow gown that I worked with Prada on. She sings ‘Them There Eyes’ in that one. It has this really great sleeve, and I love the crystals on it, and I love the color. Billie wore gardenias. She wore orchids. We were finding no fresh orchids during that season in Canada. It was something I never thought about going in. You’d call places for gardenias, and they were like, ‘They’re not in season. We don’t have them.’ And then we were dealing with customs. Even if you could find a gardenia bush, it’s not flowering in November. So yeah, the flowers are cool. Total signature for her.”
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Trevante Rhodes as Jimmy Fletcher
“Jimmy was an interesting character because there’s like one image of him that exists. So you had to really think about what he did for a living and where he came from and who he was and how he found himself in Billie’s life to start to get the vibe going for how he should look. He’s posing as this post-World War II soldier to her, showing up to the clubs to watch her when he’s really there to spy on her. He’s this double agent. He wears a military uniform, and then he wears his CIA agency suits where he’s trying to impress his boss. Then you have this other element where he gets into Billie’s world and starts to loosen up and try to blend in with them. So for me, those were the three lanes that I was going with when I was coming up with his looks. The other thing with Trevante was that I really wanted to keep his FBI color palette to always be blue and very conservative. He was always in a white shirt. He was always in uniform. He’s a very clipped persona. That was something I really followed with him so that there would be a clear definition of him between that and when he would be casual backstage with Billie.”
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Natasha Lyonne as Tallulah Bankhead
“Oh, my god. Natasha as Tallulah Bankhead was such a fun person to design. Tallulah has her signature three-strand pearls and her red hair, and she’s just really timeless and chic. I kept saying that she looks like she’s wearing The Row. We did these really great black silk trousers and this white silk blouse when they’re in the jewelry store. I found vintage fur. It was really hard to find furs from the ’40s that are still intact. I kept her very neutral. She has cream, black, and her brown mink, or a little bit of a salt-and-pepper fox fur coat. I tried to keep her very in the moment of the late ’40s that we were in. She would just be the height of fashion for the time and look like a movie star. And that contrast of her next to Billie, too. I know when they’re walking through the park, Lee had wanted to see them both in black. He was like, ‘I want them to be in black against this idyllic Easter Sunday, Central Park in the spring, upper East Side crowd, and then have them walk through these chic New Yorkers in all black.’ I loved that theme.”
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Leslie Jordan as Reginald Lord Devine
“So Leslie came in and Lee wanted him to be like tattered finery. He was like, ‘I want his clothes to look old.’ He wanted him to look like a relic of his past and like he just has this great suit from when he was young that he’s still wearing. So that was the direction. And then there were elements of Quentin Crisp that were inspired by his look. Leslie is sort of larger than life in himself, and so it didn’t take much. There was the pinky ring, and there was the pop of color with the salmon shirt and the chiffon scarf. And Lee actually on the day, ‘I don’t know. Can you just put a little mustard or a food stain on his shirt?’ He didn’t want him to be perfect. He wanted him to have this messy office. It was sort of this messy fabulous. And we literally grabbed a packet of mustard off of the little craft service table and finger-painted it onto Leslie’s shirt. That, his hair, and all of the elements came together. Tattered finery was the inspiration for him. That was Lee’s word.”
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Da’Vine Joy Randolph as Roslyn
“Oh, my god, she was amazing. Another fun character to do. That was somebody who we got to create. Da’Vine being the actor who got to portray Roslyn lent so much to who and how she was going to look. She’s like the old version of a modern-day glam squad, right? Had Roslyn been around now, she would be Instagramming with Billie on the road. So I thought about that in terms of how she would be. She would always be put together. She is traveling with the star. She’s on the road. She’s got to look great, but she also is working. So I put her in all of these really great dresses, some of them with pockets, where they were practical, that she would have maybe her comb, or maybe she has some hair product in them that she could whip out at a moment’s notice for Billie and still look stylish and still look of the moment and not be taking away from Billie. When she’s sitting there in the sunglasses with the tan mink on her shoulders, and she does a little line in Italian, yeah, she was cool. To me, she was timeless. It was like she was that best friend, and I loved that. We did a lot of print on her. I also used reference photos. I found women of the time, especially Black women in the ’40s, and just sort of combined it together with dresses that I would find and I wanted to use as inspiration pieces.”
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Tyler James Williams as Lester Young
“He’s so iconic in images with Billie. They are always together. I feel like they were such close friends and artists together. In so many of the research images of him, he’s wearing a very strong, double-breasted suit, and so that was where I went with him. And then his signature hat. There was a really cool article in Life Magazine about how he fashioned his hat and how he smashed down the crown of the hat that he had. It was an article called ‘How to Get His Hat.’ It was so cool. I custom-made a hat from Western Costume in the style of how he wore his hat, and that was his signature, and he always wore it throughout the film. When we would see him casual, he would have a polo or just a button-down shirt. But I loved him most in a suit. This Life Magazine article, too, talked about how he wore so much black, and it actually talked about how he loved to wear Hawaiian shirts. But there are no pictures of him. So I found this beautiful, actually, it was mine. I got it at the Rose Bowl the summer before we started filming the movie. It was a ’40s Hawaiian shirt, and I used that on him in the scene when they’re playing stickball. So I was like, ‘Oh, let’s incorporate this element in,’ because you do always see him performing. So it was interesting when you would get to see the character doing things that are clearly not documented, and you have to imagine what it is that he would be. What would he wear when he’s not on the road?”
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Miss Lawrence as Miss Freddy
“Miss Freddy was challenging because there are a couple mentions of him in interviews and in books. Billie talks about Miss Freddy being arrested for running around in her dresses or furs. I feel like he’s a ball queen. He is the 1940s version of a gay black male. I don’t know if he did drag necessarily, or if he just wore women’s clothing, or if he was just super fem. It’s amazing to know that these aren’t just people that are only modern times. This was happening then. So I had to put a face and a look to him and use my own judgment. And Lee would always be like, ‘I don’t want to make him a parody of just wearing the jewelry or just being flamboyant.’ Then it was, ‘Well, how do we toe the line of not making this character flamboyant in his clothes just because he’s a gay male who is her stylist?’ But then he is unapologetic. And in one scene, I actually had him have a fur that Billie wears in the movie when he meets Trevante, just to be like he was pulling a stunt. So I would put brooches on him that could have been Billie’s, that he would have been like, ‘This is cute.’ And then maybe we would do a custom ascot that he would have had made for himself because he was in charge of her dresses. So he was probably the hardest to style, but also really cool because we really got to take a liberty and shape it for the story.”
David Mintz’s life changed in 1972, in a basement kitchen in Chinatown, where cooks transformed fresh soy milk into soft tofu for neighborhood dim sum parlors. After they determined that the enthusiastic, 40-something Jewish New Yorker wasn’t a city health department inspector, the cooks agreed to sell him a gallon.
Almost a decade later, Mintz came up with his most famous tofu-based concoction: the frozen dessert known as Tofutti, a dessert that scooped like full-fat ice cream, but contained no dairy at all. He’d nailed the recipe, after what he said was nine years of failed attempts, all jettisoned down the drain in his Bensonhurst kitchen. As he once told a reporter, “I am personally responsible for clogging the sewers of New York City.”
Food scientists had warned him it was impossible. Instead, Tofutti changed the world’s frozen-dessert landscape as a popular sweet for vegans and those keeping Kosher. It would also make its creator, who died February 24 at the age of 89, a millionaire.
Mintz was born June 8, 1931, the son of a Williamsburg bread baker, and grew up in the neighborhood’s Orthodox Jewish community. After a brief stint selling mink stoles, he opened shops that sold prepared foods. One ingenious ploy involved Mintz’s promotion of the Jewish grandmothers he’d recruited in place of line cooks to prepare the most comforting foods: stuffed cabbage, fat knishes, perfectly rolled rugelach. The babushka strategy attracted long lines, Orthodox and not. “Finally I had to hire one grandma, a grandma foreman, to manage all the other grandmas,” Mintz told the Times.
It took Mintz a decade to reverse engineer the taste and mouthfeel of various dairy ingredients that are forbidden, by Jewish law, to be served together with meat. He eventually learned that tofu could emulate the sour cream he felt should be dolloped on beef stroganoff, for example. Tofu emulsified with vegetable oil and alfalfa honey took on a butter-fatty texture and became the parve key to an ice-cream alternative that could triumphantly close out a fleishig meal.
Of course, tofu was already hot at the time, hailed the “yogurt of the 1980s” — as if the food hadn’t been going strong elsewhere in the world for a collective 7,000 years. The corporate hype was fueled by a health-foods arms race waged by ex-hippies who’d descended back into the realms of capitalism, not to mention an enduring American appetite for newness. When Tofutti landed its first major coverage in the Times, MTV had been broadcasting from West 57th Street for a mere 11 days.
The market for Tofutti may have started with observant Jews — Mintz even sought guidance from Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Schneerson, the venerated Orthodox Jewish leader — but it soon expanded to include the lactose intolerant, fad dieters, suburban vegetarians, and parents anxious to get their kids to eat plants on the sly. Early Tofutti flavors like carrot-raisin-apple, a riff on the Rosh Hashanah side dish tzimmes, also gave way to more serviceable chocolate and vanilla flavors, plus wildberry and banana-pecan.
Tofutti was eventually hard-packed and sold by the pint at Häagen-Dazs shops and 23,000 retail stores nationwide. It sold out at Zabar’s and Bloomingdale’s, where it was a rumored favorite of Jacqueline Onassis and Brooke Shields. When Gloria Vanderbilt launched Glacé, a glam Tofutti competitor, Mintz upped the stakes and began selling fancy marble-swirl Tofutti cheesecakes alongside scoops.
A Tofutti sundae, in 1984 Photo: Al Freni/The LIFE Images Collection via G
The brand expanded to an entire line of punily named foods like Pan Crust Pizza Pizzaz, Better Than Ricotta, and Mintz’s Blintzes. L♥ve Dr♥ps were Tofutti pints with chocolate-covered graham crackers. “Marry Me” bars were wedding-themed — “For a healthy, long lasting relationship.” Tofutti Cuties were Mintz’s best-selling answer to ice-cream sandwiches.
As his business grew, so too did Mintz’s ambition, and even as he’d casually suggest the idea of garlic Tofutti, he could also outline a plan for the Future of Food that has since been floated in countless Silicon Valley start-up pitches: a world of meatless burgers, vegan cheeses, and environmentally responsible protein sources.
By 1985, his New Jersey factory receptionists answered phones with a chipper “Tofutti All-Rootie,” and full-page ads saw Mintz styled with an immaculate cone and a slightly loosened necktie, the only hint of his exhaustive self-promotion. In 1986, he signed a deal to sell Tofutti within the Soviet Union, to be churned out in an unnamed, “small and neutral” country. Like Coca-Cola, which also landed in the USSR that year, Mintz said his recipes were ultraproprietary secrets. “If you take all the ingredients and try to make Tofutti, you’ll never do it,” he claimed.
That same year, he also had a cell phone installed in his car to conduct deals with efficiency during his commute from the affluent suburb of Alpine, New Jersey. At home, Mintz’s property featured 15 ponds, which he stocked with koi that, he said, he fed with tofu.
William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi, who chronicled the soy industry for decades, dubbed Mintz the “P.T. Barnum of tofu,” but even if competitors couldn’t replicate Tofutti, journalists were seemingly eager to pull it apart. Paul Obis, the founder of Vegetarian Times, discovered that for at least one stretch, Tofutti was made with isolated soy protein and no actual tofu. A separate exposé claimed that Tofutti was only between 3 and 15 percent tofu, while newspapers pointed out that Tofutti’s elevated calorie counts were typically higher than traditional ice cream.
In response, Mintz added tofu back into the recipe, thanking his detractors for leading him to a higher-quality, “creamier” Tofutti, and continued to capitalize on his better-living-through-soy narrative.
Today, Tofutti is part of a nondairy ice-cream market that, by 2025, will be worth $1.2 billion, and features plenty of flashier rivals — Van Leeuwen, Oatly, and even a vegan line from Ben & Jerry’s. They all exist, in part, thanks to Mintz and his hustle. In the earliest days, Mintz once double-parked outside a fancy Manhattan health-food store to make a delivery to his first customer, only to find a ticket on his windshield carrying a $45 fine — far more than he’d just earned. But Mintz was too elated to be angry. He’d not only launched his company, but he’d created an entire category of dessert that would endure for decades.
‘Solo’ Is Ron Howard’s Latest Chapter In his Own Hollywood Saga | Sunday TODAY
Ron Howard saw the original “Star Wars” movie on its opening day in 1977 – and now 41 years later, his name is about to appear in the credits of the latest piece of the saga, “Solo: A Star Wars Story.” In this week’s Sunday Sitdown, the Academy Award-winning director talks to Willie Geist about what it was like to take the reins of the film, how he was able to stay grounded as a child actor, and he shares his “lucky charm” he uses in every one of his movies.
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Although iCarly fans continue holding out hope that Jennette McCurdy will change her mind and return for the show’s upcoming revival, they’d be well-advised not to hold their breath.
Jennette, who now hosts the podcast Empty Inside, played Sam Puckett for six seasons on the Nickelodeon show that signed off in 2012, and she later reprised the role on Sam & Cat opposite Ariana Grande. During her recent podcast interview with Anna Faris, Jennette confirmed she considers herself done with acting, and revealed she is not particularly proud of her previous shows.
“I quit a few years ago to try my hand and writing and directing—it’s going great,” she said with a self-deprecating laugh. “I quit a few years ago because I initially didn’t want to do it. My mom put me in it when I was 6 and by sort of age, I guess, 10 or 11, I was the main financial support for my family. My family didn’t have a lot of money, and this was the way out, which I actually think was helpful in driving me to some degree of success.”
Jennette, 28, explained that “always, always, always, acting was difficult for me,” as she had a tough time dealing with nerves during auditions.
Dotted Lines by Devney Perry goes live at midnight!! — “Timing was never on her side, especially when it came to him. The two of them lived in a junkyard as runaway teens, and though she wanted more than his friendship, he always belonged to another—until that one night when he was hers. When she finds him living in a small, coastal town, she’s not surprised the beautiful boy from her past grew into a stunning man. His smile is as captivating as ever. His eyes have the same roguish glint. But timing is still working against her [and] she must decide how far she’s willing to go to battle for his heart…”
Underboss by Kristen Proby goes live at midnight!! — “His life has never really been his own. But he doesn’t mind because his family means more to him than his life… She has her sights set on ruling [and] she always gets what she wants. When the heir to [a] powerful crime families comes knocking, she sees it for the gift it is. He thinks he has her fooled, but she’s smarter, more cunning, and always two steps ahead… To survive, they’ll have to come clean and work together—and acknowledge that the growing love they’ve been pretending isn’t there, is very real.”
Marriage and Murder by Penny Reid goes live at midnight!! — “Cletus Byron Winston wishes to marry Jennifer Anne Donner-Sylvester (aka The Banana Cake Queen) posthaste! He’s spent the last year wanting nothing more than for the celebrations to be brief, libations flowing, and BYOB (bring your own blueberries). His future mother-in-law has other plans, plans his intended has been willing to indulge, much to Cletus’s chagrin. Therefore, so must he. To a point. But truth be told, he wouldn’t mind if the meddlesome matriarch disappeared, at least until the nuptials are over. On the night of Cletus and Jenn’s long-awaited engagement party, just when the surly schemer is of a mind to take matters into his own hands, a shocking event upends everyone’s best laid plans…”
All Consuming by Jaci Burton goes live at midnight!! — “Hannah has moved back home after a disastrous end to a marriage that never should have been. Now her only focus is getting her hair salon up and running, and making sure her son is happy. She doesn’t have time for love… She intends to look forward, not backward, and Kal is most definitely part of her past. However [he’s] intent on showing her what it’s like to be cared for, romanced, and consumed with passion—and Hannah loves it. But she wonders if she has the courage to risk her heart again, even as Kal vows not to lose her a second time.”
Yes & I Love You by Roni Loren goes live at midnight!! — “Everyone knows Miz Poppy, the vibrant reviewer whose commentary brightens the New Orleans nightlife. But no one knows Hollyn, the real face behind the media star…or the fear that keeps her isolated. When her boss tells her she needs to add video to her blog or lose her job, she’s forced to rely on an unexpected source to help her face her fears. When aspiring actor Jasper Deares finds out the shy woman who orders coffee every day is actually Miz Poppy, he realizes he has a golden opportunity to get the media attention his acting career needs. All he has to do is help Hollyn come out of her shell…and through their growing connection, finally find her voice.“
Lightening Game by Christine Feehan goes live at midnight!! — “His rough upbringing made him into the man he is today: strong, steadfast and wary of outsiders. When he and his brother return to their family’s homestead in the Appalachian Mountains, he can immediately sense that a stranger has taken up residence in their cabin… She looks deceptively delicate but is clearly a fighter… Their connection is magnetic, their abilities in sync. He knows she’s his match, the answer to a lifetime of pain and intense loneliness. But she came to him with hidden intentions, ones that threaten to destroy their bond before it can truly begin.…”
Chain of Iron by Cassandra Clare (The Last Hours series) goes live at midnight!! — “Cordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. She’s engaged to [the] boy she has loved since childhood. She has a new life in London with [the] Merry Thieves. She is about to be reunited with her beloved father. And she bears the sword Cortana, a legendary hero’s blade. But the truth is far grimmer. [Her] marriage is a lie, arranged to save Cordelia’s reputation. [He] is in love with [a] mysterious [woman] whose brother died years ago in a terrible accident. Cortana burns Cordelia’s hand when she touches it, while her father has grown bitter and angry. And a serial murderer is targeting the Shadowhunters of London, killing under cover of darkness, then vanishing without a trace… Together with the Merry Thieves, [they] must follow the trail of the knife-wielding killer through the city’s most dangerous streets. All the while, each is keeping a shocking secret…”
A Discovery of Secrets and Fate by Sawyer Bennett (Chronicles of the Stone Veil series) goes live at midnight!! — “Life as I knew it ended the day I accepted my fate. In its place is an existence even the wildest imagination could never fathom. Strange creatures walk among us, plotting our demise, and I’ve come to find that the fate of our world rests squarely on my shoulders. We’re all in danger and I’m trying to figure out how to make it through each day. The key to my survival is a man I can’t figure out. As dangerous as the darkest fae, I have no choice but to work with him to stop the prophecy that’s foretold to be the ruination of mankind…”
LATEST RECOMMENDATION: Return To Us by Corinne Michaels (Read my Review) SQUEEEEEE!!! I read this gorgeous book in one sitting and LOVED it! It’s a second chance romance with a single dad hero and it has all the angsty feels!! I’ve always loved second chance love stories – there’s just something that draws me to them again and again and while I’ve read many over the years, this one is a favorite and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for an addictive new book! — “At eighteen, I walked away for good. I was young, scared, and stupid, and it cost me the love of my life… Fourteen years later, a crash sends me back home to recover. Back to where we met, fell in love, and planned a future. The one he’s now living as a single dad to his daughter. Working at [the inn] together gives us a chance to reconnect…I can imagine a new life for us here. But he’s learned to guard his heart, and trust won’t come easily. How can I convince him to give first love a second chance?”
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In this video we will see how to make fish podimas recipe in tamil. This Fish puttu / Meen puttu can be made from any fish but in this recipe I have used Pomfret fish. Once the fish is cooked with salt and turmeric, we will add the fish to caramelized onions and season them and roast them with spices. The onions and spices adds a new level to this fish fry. This is an excellent side dish for rice and it tastes really amazing.
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Ingredients:
8-10 piece Fish
1 tsp Salt
1/4 tsp turmeric
required water
2 tbsp Oil
1/4 tsp Mustard seeds
2 Onion
1 tbsp Ginger Garlic paste
2 Green Chilies
Curry leaves
1/2 tsp Coriander powder
1/2 tsp Cumin powder
1 tsp Chili powder
1/2 tsp Pepper
Coriander leaves
required Salt
What strange things will happen in the first season of the Debris TV show on NBC? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Debris is cancelled or renewed for season two. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren’t considered, we invite you to rate all of the first season episodes of Debris here.
An NBC science-fiction drama series, the Debris TV show stars Jonathan Tucker, Riann Steele, Norbert Leo Butz, and Scroobius Pip. The story begins as mysterious wreckage starts falling from the sky. A secretive international agency named Orbital is tasked with figuring out what the wreckage is, where it came from, and most importantly — what it can do. British MI6 operative Finola Jones (Steele) and American CIA agent Bryan Beneventi (Tucker) are partners but they have very different styles. However, they have no choice but to trust each other as they track down the debris scattered across the Western Hemisphere. Each fragment has unpredictable, powerful, and sometimes dangerous effects on the everyday people who find it. They must race against time as shadowy outside forces seek these objects for nefarious purposes.
What do you think? Which season one episodes of the Debris TV series do you rate as wonderful, terrible, or somewhere between? Do you think that Debris should be cancelled or renewed for a second season on NBC? Don’t forget to vote, and share your thoughts, below.
Ron Isley Sings performs an emotional version of “HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW” at Aretha Franklin’s Home Going Celebration!
Aretha Franklin was laid to rest Friday following a funeral in Detroit, the city she called home for most of her life.
The iconic singer received nearly every major award one could receive during her lifetime. That included being the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Arts and 18 Grammys.
Franklin was transported to the service by the same 1940 Cadillac LaSalle that carried including Rosa Parks and Franklin’s father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin.
Friday’s funeral follows several days of tributes, including a Thursday evening concert and a public viewing at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.
Franklin had been dressed in four different outfits throughout the week, according to the Associated Press. She will be laid to rest wearing a full-length gold dress with sequined heels.
SQUEEEEEE!!! I read this gorgeous book in one sitting and LOVED it! It’s a second chance romance with a single dad hero and it has all the angsty feels!! I’ve always loved second chance love stories – there’s just something that draws me to them again and again and while I’ve read many over the years, this one is a favorite and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for an addictive new book! — “At eighteen, I walked away for good. I was young, scared, and stupid, and it cost me the love of my life… Fourteen years later, a crash sends me back home to recover. Back to where we met, fell in love, and planned a future. The one he’s now living as a single dad to his daughter. Working at [the inn] together gives us a chance to reconnect…I can imagine a new life for us here. But he’s learned to guard his heart, and trust won’t come easily. How can I convince him to give first love a second chance?”
