Evvie Drake Starts Over

Author(s): Linda Holmes

Location(s): Maine

Genre(s): Romance, Fiction

Era(s): Modern

In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and Evvie doesn’t correct them.

Meanwhile in New York, Dean Tenney, former Major League pitcher and Andy’s childhood best friend, is wrestling with the fact that he can’t throw straight anymore, and even worse, he can’t figure out why. As the media storm heats up, an invitation from Andy to stay in Maine seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button on Dean’s future.

When he moves into the apartment at the back of Evvie’s house, the two make a deal: Dean won’t ask about Evvie’s late husband, and Evvie won’t ask about Dean’s baseball career. But what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more.

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