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Meet Prinny, Chelsea and Diana. Prinny is the owner of Cosmos, a shop that sells crystals, potions, candles, and hope. It's also a place where no one turns down a little extra-special cocktail that can work as a romance potion or heal a broken heart. But Prinny is in love with her married lawyer and she'll need nothing short of magic to forget about him.
Chelsea works as a living statue at tourist sites around Washington, DC. It's a thankless job, but it helps pay the rent. That, and her part-time job at Cosmos. As her dream of becoming a successful actress starts to seem more remote and the possibility of being a permanently struggling one seems more realistic, Chelsea begins to wonder: at one point do you give up on your dreams? And will love ever be in the cards for her?
Diana Tiesman is married to Leif, a charismatic man who isn't faithful. But no matter how many times he lets her down, Diana just can't let him go. She knows the only way she can truly breakaway is if she leaves and goes where he will never think to follow. So she ends up at Cosmos with Leif's stepsister, where she makes her homemade teas and tinctures as she figures out whether she'd rather be lonely alone than lonely in love.
In Beth Harbison's One Less Problem Without You , three women suddenly find themselves together at their own very different crossroads. It will take hope, love, strength and a little bit of magic for them to find their way together.
Author Notes
Beth Harbison grew up in Potomac, Maryland and graduated with a BA from the University of Maryland.
Harbison wrote four cookbooks and twenty-two Silhouette Romances before hitting the New York Times bestseller list with her first mainstream novel Shoe Addicts Anonymous (St. Martins, June 2007). She followed with Secrets of a Shoe Addict (St. Martins, June 2008), Hope in a Jar (St. Martins, July 2009), Thin Rich Pretty (St. Martins, July 2010) and Always Something There to Remind Me (St. Martins, May 2012).
Beth lives in Maryland with her family and dogs.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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Booklist Review
The latest from Harbison (If I Could Turn Back Time, 2015) has a more sinister edge than her previous, more lighthearted tales. Three women are linked by their encounters with Leif Thiesman, a charming psychopath who likes to control women. Prinny is his younger stepsister, whom he resented and terrorized as a child. She invested her portion of their late father's bequest into Cosmos, a shop that sells crystals and potions and tells fortunes, much to Leif's chagrin. Diana is Leif's perfect wife, who stands by him despite his infidelities, until she can't take it anymore. She runs away to work at Prinny's shop, the last place she thinks Leif will look for her. Prinny's other employee is Chelsea, an aspiring actress who has a life-altering encounter with Leif. The novel changes perspectives and includes some unsettling twists on its way to giving the three women their just deserts. The romantic-comedy maven offers an uneven but interesting take on the revenge plot.--Walker, Aleksandra Copyright 2016 Booklist
