TENDERNESS: Rowan Beaird in conversation with Marisa Walz
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From the beloved author of "The Divorcées" comes a novel set in the 1970s during an island wedding, where the bride has recently left a sinister cult that might still be trailing her
“INTOXICATING...You’ll find yourself turning page after page, utterly swept up in the heady spell it casts.” —Megan Abbott, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author
Join Rowan Beaird at Blue House Books on Thursday, July 23rd, at 6:30 p.m. to discuss her newest release, "Tenderness", with thriller author Marisa Walz ("Good Intentions"), answering questions from the audience, and signing books!
HAPPY HOUR WITH THE AUTHOR:
Arrive early at 5:30 p.m. for a chance to meet and mingle with Rowan and other book lovers! There will also be a charcuterie spread and drinks.
This event is ticketed, check out the details and grab your ticket here: https://withfriends.co/event/28403299
ABOUT TENDERNESS:
On a remote island off the coast of Virginia, family and friends gather to celebrate the wedding of Shay O’Connor and Andrew Pruitt. From the moment the guests arrive, all they can whisper about is the bride, who recently left the headline-making cult Synanon. Why would someone like Shay, an Ivy League graduate with a wealthy, doting fiancée, join Synanon? And has she really escaped their grasp?
Told from the interwoven perspectives of Shay’s brother William, her longtime friend Joel, and Shay herself, Tenderness is a slow-burn mystery that excavates dark family histories and romantic regrets. As the wedding day approaches, Joel and William pull at the loose threads of Shay’s story, and it becomes clear there is an even greater threat on the island than the secrets each character is keeping from one another.
Set in the tinderbox of the 1970s, "Tenderness" is a lit match, bringing hidden truths to light and asking if we can ever see ourselves or the people we love for who they truly are.
ABOUT ROWAN BEAIRD:
Rowan Beaird's fiction has appeared in "The Southern Review", "Ploughshares", and "Gulf Coast". She lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter. "The Divorcées" is her first novel.
ABOUT GOOD INTENTIONS:
INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER • "A stunning debut with razor sharp tension and surprising twists." —Jeneva Rose, #1 bestselling author
Even the best of intentions can grow into obsession...
On the surface, Cady has the perfect life. She has a thriving luxury event-planning business, the man she’s loved since she was seventeen, and a social calendar she can barely keep up with. She also has Dana, her identical twin, her most trusted confidante. But when Dana dies suddenly, before Cady can say goodbye, everything shatters.
Yet to her family’s alarm, it isn’t grief for Dana that consumes her. It’s Morgan, a stranger Cady meets in the hospital waiting room that same day—a grieving mother whose tragedy mirrors her own. Cady doesn’t believe in coincidences. She becomes convinced that helping Morgan is the key to facing her sister’s death.
But is that really what she wants? Or is Cady drawn to Morgan for reasons far more complicated—and dangerous—than she’s willing to admit?
Sly, twisted, and irresistibly provocative, "Good Intentions" explores the moral gray zones we enter when the unthinkable happens—and the dark places obsession can take us.
ABOUT MARISA WALZ:
Marisa Walz is a Federal Reserve executive who also writes novels about people behaving badly. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and two young children.
“INTOXICATING...You’ll find yourself turning page after page, utterly swept up in the heady spell it casts.” —Megan Abbott, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author
Join Rowan Beaird at Blue House Books on Thursday, July 23rd, at 6:30 p.m. to discuss her newest release, "Tenderness", with thriller author Marisa Walz ("Good Intentions"), answering questions from the audience, and signing books!
HAPPY HOUR WITH THE AUTHOR:
Arrive early at 5:30 p.m. for a chance to meet and mingle with Rowan and other book lovers! There will also be a charcuterie spread and drinks.
This event is ticketed, check out the details and grab your ticket here: https://withfriends.co/event/28403299
ABOUT TENDERNESS:
On a remote island off the coast of Virginia, family and friends gather to celebrate the wedding of Shay O’Connor and Andrew Pruitt. From the moment the guests arrive, all they can whisper about is the bride, who recently left the headline-making cult Synanon. Why would someone like Shay, an Ivy League graduate with a wealthy, doting fiancée, join Synanon? And has she really escaped their grasp?
Told from the interwoven perspectives of Shay’s brother William, her longtime friend Joel, and Shay herself, Tenderness is a slow-burn mystery that excavates dark family histories and romantic regrets. As the wedding day approaches, Joel and William pull at the loose threads of Shay’s story, and it becomes clear there is an even greater threat on the island than the secrets each character is keeping from one another.
Set in the tinderbox of the 1970s, "Tenderness" is a lit match, bringing hidden truths to light and asking if we can ever see ourselves or the people we love for who they truly are.
ABOUT ROWAN BEAIRD:
Rowan Beaird's fiction has appeared in "The Southern Review", "Ploughshares", and "Gulf Coast". She lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter. "The Divorcées" is her first novel.
ABOUT GOOD INTENTIONS:
INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER • "A stunning debut with razor sharp tension and surprising twists." —Jeneva Rose, #1 bestselling author
Even the best of intentions can grow into obsession...
On the surface, Cady has the perfect life. She has a thriving luxury event-planning business, the man she’s loved since she was seventeen, and a social calendar she can barely keep up with. She also has Dana, her identical twin, her most trusted confidante. But when Dana dies suddenly, before Cady can say goodbye, everything shatters.
Yet to her family’s alarm, it isn’t grief for Dana that consumes her. It’s Morgan, a stranger Cady meets in the hospital waiting room that same day—a grieving mother whose tragedy mirrors her own. Cady doesn’t believe in coincidences. She becomes convinced that helping Morgan is the key to facing her sister’s death.
But is that really what she wants? Or is Cady drawn to Morgan for reasons far more complicated—and dangerous—than she’s willing to admit?
Sly, twisted, and irresistibly provocative, "Good Intentions" explores the moral gray zones we enter when the unthinkable happens—and the dark places obsession can take us.
ABOUT MARISA WALZ:
Marisa Walz is a Federal Reserve executive who also writes novels about people behaving badly. She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband and two young children.
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