Shirley Jump, Author . Zebra $5.99 (296p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0035-8
This disappointing contemporary from Jump (Pretty Bad
) tells the story of a young woman returning to her despised hometown, where she endured years of emotional torture as an overweight teenager. Now thin and passingly glamorous, Allie Dean (formerl
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Shirley Jump. Berkley Sensation, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-26450-8
In this heartwarming contemporary series opener, Jump (The Matchmaker’s Happy Ending) sends Boston animal therapist Olivia Linscott to Rescue Bay, Fla., in search of her past. The biological mother who abandoned her at birth has left her a lovely...
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Shirley Jump. Berkley Sensation, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-26451-5
Jump’s second Sweetheart Sisters contemporary (after The Sweetheart Bargain) brings together two flawed yet appealing single parents searching for love. Veterinarian Diana Tuttle, who’s raising a 15-year-old son, seems, on the surface, to have it...
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Shirley Jump. Berkley Sensation, $7.99 mass market (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-27937-3
A skimpy framing device does little to support Jump’s inconsistent first Southern Belle Book Club contemporary. Elizabeth Palmer got tired of playing it safe, quit her mind-numbing job as a bookkeeper in Trenton, N.J., and kicked off her brand-new...
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Jodi Thomas, Marie Force, Virginia Kantra, and Shirley Jump. Jove, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-515-15538-9
Each of the four authors brings something uniquely touching to this collection of contemporary romantic novellas, all of which have taking a dare as the central impetus to love, from the sweet stirrings of rekindled affections to the nervous bliss...
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Shirley Jump. Forever, $14.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4555-7202-1
Delving into the agonies and joys of a close-knit family, Jump demonstrates a decided knack for highlighting the best and worst in her characters in this second contemporary romance chronicling the lives of the Boston Catholic O’Bannon family (after
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Shirley Jump. Forever, $15.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-5387-2028-8
A struggling shop owner falls for the boy next door, but it’s her relationship with her family that puts the heart in this adorable friends-to-lovers romance from bestseller Jump (In Other Words, Love). Gabby Monroe is the glue holding her family...
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