Four generations of woman reside at the center
of The Rainy
Day Bookshop by RaeAnne
Thayne, a moving multigenerational romance about how the past can influence the future.
Widowed Rosie Lucas has her hands full. Her 72-year-old mother, Sylvia--who established and maintained The Rainy
Day Bookshop in the small town of Wood Briar on the Oregon coast--is slow to convalesce from an ice-skating accident. And her estranged
daughter, Emma, returns to town with Olivia, her three-old-old, Rosie’s
granddaughter, in tow. The timing seems providential, as Emma can now help out
at the store. However, Emma’s return forces Rosie and Emma to deal with a
secret that drove a wedge between their relationship years before. In the midst
of them revisiting the past, a quirky, loner writer and single dad becomes
a loyal confidante for Rosie, and Emma crosses paths with an old flame from middle school. Can the two women, riddled with grief, reconcile their mother-daughter relationship? And are they willing to open their hearts to romance again?
Small town life and the complexities of women’s
issues are Thayne’s (Snow
Kissed, The Lost
Book of First Loves) specialties—and they shine in this tender-hearted novel of family dynamics and blossoming love.
The
Rainy Day Bookshop by RaeAnne Thayne
MIRA
Books (HarperCollins), $29.00 hardcover,
paperback, 9780778307433, 384 pages
Publishing Date: June 2, 2026
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