For the Love of Summer
by Susan Mallery
Erica is terrified that she’s losing her teen daughter, Summer, to her “other” family, especially to Summer’s stepmom, Allison.
All it takes to blow up Allison’s happy life is one collect call. From prison. Her husband Peter has been arrested, leaving Allison pregnant, broke, scared, and alone with a toddler. But when her stepdaughter Summer ferrets out the truth, the teen rushes to the last person Allison wants to ask for help … her husband’s battle-ax ex.
Erica would do anything for Summer, even take in the woman her daughter loves like a second mom. Allison feels intimidated by Erica, a woman who would never let herself become so dependent on a man. But the more time they spend together, the more Allison realizes what Erica truly needs is a friend. Can two women who married the same man move beyond their complicated past and rethink what it means to be family?
Godwin
by Joseph O’Neill
Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, and daughter. His half-brother Geoff, born and raised in the United Kingdom, is a young soccer agent who pulls Mark into a scheme to track down an elusive prospect known only as “Godwin,” an African teenager Geoff believes could be the next Lionel Messi.
Narrated in turn by Mark and his colleague Lakesha Williams, “Godwin” is a tale of family and migration as well as an international adventure story that implicates the brothers in the beauty and ugliness of soccer, the perils and promises of international business, and the dark history of transatlantic money-making.