A Week from Sunday

Dorothy Garlock

The day of her beloved father's funeral, Adrianna Moore is appalled to discover that her father left everything to their lawyer, Richard Pope. To make it worse, Richard is insisting they marry, as he says her father wished. He has arranged the ceremony for a week from Sunday.

Instead of at her wedding, Adrianna goes on the road a week from Sunday. She is running away from Richard to her aunt in Mississippi. On a country road in Louisiana she has a car accident. She wakes up in a doctor's office with no running car and an angry man. It is the Depression and she has ruined Quinn Baxter's stock and injured his piano player. She has spent her adult life caring for ill parents and has few marketable job skills. Adrianna can play the piano. Now, in order to pay the lumberjack back, she moves into his home, cares for his paralyzed teen aged brother Jesse, and plays the piano two nights a week for the sing alongs at the Baxter family bar.

She realizes Lee's Point is a good town to hide from Richard while her car is being repaired. When he's not angry, worried about his brother, or worried about how they'll get through the Depression, Quinn is an interesting man. But he's engaged to the housekeeper, Lola. She'll help Jesse, then get out of Lee's Point as soon as her car is repaired and Quinn is repaid. She doesn't need the entanglement he offers. Then Richard finds her...

A Week from Sunday is a charming escapist romance novel. Dorothy Garlock puts a soft cushion on the Depression - showing the reader some of the ways that families coped with the troubles of life. Garlock doesn't hide the Depression, but instead intertwines it a story that appeals and satisfies. Richard Pope is appropriately (almost cartoonish) evil. Quinn Baxter is the rough goo d guy who isn't perfect. A Week from Sunday is a comfortable way to spend a few hours.

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