Penelope in Retrograde

by Brooke Abrams

Because falling in love and having babies is the answer to all your problems, according to my mother and the majority of Hallmark movies.

Lolol

Jackie: You’re a USA Today bestselling romance author, and all you’re going to give us is fine?

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Smith and I listen to Aidan describe some of his mother’s other superstitions. The most interesting of which involves never buying a book without reading the ending first. I thought it was some sort of When Harry Met Sally reference, but according to Aidan, his great-aunt Ina died in a hot-air balloon accident before she got to finish the final book in the Hunger Games series. A true disappointment.

Vermouth tastes as if cold medicine, window cleaner, and a stale bag of black licorice had an orgy. I hate her from the first sip, but that doesn’t stop me from taking another. And another.