What if you could live your life all over again? There's just one catch... Frannie Turner is a plain, middle-aged housewife married to Stanley, a self-absorbed retired dentist who hasn't slept in her bed in years. No children to love and be loved by. No exciting career to look back on. Just loneliness and lost dreams. So when the mysterious new hairdresser in town offers her the chance to get everything she's ever wanted, Frannie figures she has nothing to lose -except her soul. And surely, as a stunning twenty-six-year-old singleton in New York, finding true love within the stipulated year should be a piece of cake, not to mention a hell of a lot of fun! But New York City is no place for the naïve, and Frannie will soon learn just how dangerous a deal with the devil can be... 'Catch-26 marries confection with thriller to create a tale that's at once compelling and comic, delightful and deep, classic yet modern, just like its older-but-younger heroine and theme. I read it straight...

A love story about a revolving cast of beloved and not-so beloved dogs, a wondrous forty-two-year marriage, and the homes that housed them all Dog House is a book about love-the love it takes to make a house a home, the love a mother has for her son, and the love a woman and her dogs share. But above all, it's about the deep, all-consuming love that a wife has for her husband. It's the story of Carol Prisant-a woman of wit, self-deprecation, and occasional sophistication-and her husband, Millard-a man of southern charm, reticent strength, and unwavering support-and their long, not long-enough, marriage.In the shadow of Millard's death, Carol resurrects the remarkable home they built together-not just the period antiques and décor-but the pets and life the family shared. As their fur family grew, the couple's time together is told not by the passage of years, but by the cold noses, warm bellies, and four-legged mischief of Tippy, then Fluffy, then Cosi, and...