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Anthony mumbled a well-mannered thank-you
for dinner, and the two of them pranced out of the restaurant.

Talia gazed at the door until she could no
longer see Anthony and Wendy through the panes of glass. Then she
swiveled back in her chair, which left her facing Cory over a plate
of barely touched chicken masala. So much for her plan to offer it
to Anthony. She’d bring it home and let him eat it the next time he
visited.

“Looks like they stuck us with the check,”
Cory said with a wry smile. As if the kids would ever have offered
to pay for dinner.

Talia would gladly put the meal on her
credit card if doing so would make Cory disappear. What was she
supposed to say to him? Why had Wendy maneuvered to leave them
alone together? Surely she knew her parents had no real
relationship. Her existence was the only thing that kept them in
one another’s lives. Without her, they might as well be two
strangers.

Two strangers who’d once been madly in
love.

“So,” Talia asked, managing a limp smile,
“what do we do now?”

***

That’s
Moondance
, the next Magic
Jukebox book. 

Don’t miss the other books in the Magic
Jukebox series:

Changes

Antiques dealer Diana Simms is engaged to
her longtime boyfriend when she finds herself inside the Faulk
Street Tavern. The song “Changes” emerges from the jukebox and
casts its spell on her. It also captivates Nick Fiore, a local boy
who’s arrived at adulthood the hard way, after a tour through the
juvenile justice system. Now he’s dedicated his life to helping
other troubled kids. He has no business even looking at a
beautiful, well-bred woman wearing a diamond engagement ring. But
once they’re bewitched by the jukebox, he and Diana must change
their lives, their goals, their dreams and their hearts.

True Colors

When she finds herself homeless, artist Emma
Glendon accepts the invitation of her best friend to share a rental
house in Brogan’s Point. But their absentee landlord, Nick Tarloff,
has come to town from his home in San Francisco to sell the house,
which will mean evicting his tenants. Nick is a high-tech brainiac
and a self-made millionnaire. Emma is a painter and a free spirit.
They have nothing in common—except the jukebox, which plays “True
Colors” and forces them to recognize their own true colors, colors
that can match and blend magnificently, if the magic of the jukebox
has its way.

Wild Thing

Monica Reinhart is a good girl. A hometown
girl. After college, she returned to Brogan’s Point to help run the
family business, an oceanfront inn. She’s never done a wild thing
in her life. When Ty Cronin sails into town, his wildness intrigues
her. When the jukebox plays “Wild Thing,” that wildness infects
her, and soon she finds herself doing things she never would have
imagined. But Ty could be big trouble. She hardly knows him. She
mustn’t trust him. Yet once she’s taken a walk on the wild side
with him, how can she go back to being a good hometown girl?