“A tender love story sprinkled with a bit of angst. Slip it into your beach bag and enjoy.” –Linda Rosen, author of The Emerald Necklace
Old scars. New love?
Suellen Atkins’ trust fund has given her everything except love. As the youngest attorney in a major law firm, her life is filled with reckless spending and meaningless flings. But when she dumps her latest wild guy, he doesn’t leave quietly.
Unable to shake the feeling she’s being watched, Suellen runs into an old classmate at a colleague’s farewell. Adam Isaacson is one of the good guys — and that might be more scary than her stalker ex. With the echoes of her parents' tumultuous marriage still ringing in her ears, Suellen can’t imagine anything this promising.
When a shock medical diagnosis complicates things, her proclivity for self-sabotage goes into overdrive. As life turns upside down, her lunch friends at the law firm become a lifeline in the storm. But even they, with all their good intentions and well-meaning advice, can’t save Suellen from herself. Nor can the man who’s fallen in love with her. Only she can do that.
Book Review:
Lunch Tales: Suellen by Lucille Guarino is a heartfelt, emotionally layered story that explores the messy, tender, and often frightening journey of learning to love yourself before you can let anyone else in. Suellen, a brilliant attorney with a trust fund and a trail of reckless choices, finds her life spiraling when an unhinged ex won’t disappear—and when an unexpectedly kind man from her past walks back into her world.
Guarino beautifully captures Suellen’s inner conflict: the fear of repeating her parents’ destructive patterns, the instinct to run before she can be hurt, and the aching desire for something real. When a sudden medical crisis throws her off balance, her circle of lunch friends becomes her anchor, but ultimately, Suellen must confront her own self-sabotage.
Tender, honest, and quietly powerful, Lunch Tales: Suellen is a story about courage, healing, and choosing love—both given and received.
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