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The Secret of Snow

by Viola Shipman

A winter homecoming in northern Michigan

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A winter homecoming in northern Michigan

After losing her Southern California meteorology job, fifty-year-old Sonny Dunes returns to the northern Michigan hometown she left for college. The snowy setting brings her into contact with old friends, a former classmate who is now her boss, and the memory of her younger sister, who loved winter. Sonny takes on local events to build an audience for her new work, while a widower offers a possible romance and someone works against her efforts. The story brings career upheaval and small-town reconnection together with grief, unresolved history, and the question of where home is.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in stories of returning to a hometown and reconnecting with the past.
  • For readers who enjoy winter-set fiction involving family, friendship, romance, and career change.

Themes

Homecoming and belongingGrief and memoryCareer changeFamily and friendshipRomance

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Book overview

The forecast is calling for a reluctant homecoming and regrettable decisions with a strong chance of romance...

When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist whose job is all sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist that will never age, gain weight or renegotiate its contract, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old another shot is the very place Sonny's been avoiding since the day she left for college--her northern Michigan hometown.

Sonny grudgingly returns to the long, cold, snowy winters of her childhood...with the added humiliation of moving back in with her mother. Not quite an outsider but no longer a local, Sonny finds her past blindsiding her everywhere: from the high school friends she ghosted, to the former journalism classmate and mortal frenemy who's now her boss, to, most keenly, the death years ago of her younger sister, who loved the snow.

To distract herself from the memories she's spent her life trying to outrun, Sonny throws herself headfirst into covering every small-town winter event to woo a new audience, made more bearable by a handsome widower with optimism to spare. But with someone trying to undermine her efforts to rebuild her career, Sonny must make peace with who she used to be and allow her heart to thaw if she's ever going to find a place she can truly call home.

Don't miss bestselling author Viola Shipman's charming new novel, THE WISHING BRIDGE--where an ambitious executive rediscovers the magic of family, friendship, home...and Christmas!

Other books by Viola Shipman:
  • Famous in a Small Town
  • A Wish for Winter
  • The Edge of Summer
  • The Summer Cottage
  • The Heirloom Garden
  • The Clover Girls

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