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The Magic Jukebox by Judith Arnold
The Magic Jukebox by Judith Arnold





However, things in Liz’s life have a tendency to fail with hilarious results, and her attempts to woo her husband are no exceptions. Armed with a book on spicing up her sex life purchased at a sex toy party and the help of her three best girlfriends, Liz embarks on an all-out attempt to rejuvenate her marriage and find personal fulfillment. While she is preoccupied with the sometimes mind-numbing responsibilities of motherhood, her husband is becoming increasingly distant and preoccupied with work, giving Liz the distinct impression that she is losing her husband along with her sense of identity. Now, six years later, is it too late to make things right?Ī sophisticated, put together career woman prior to having kids, now Liz Cartwright is lucky to go to the bathroom by herself, much less get out of the house wearing matching shoes and a clean shirt. When the jukebox plays “Angel of the Morning,” a plaintive ballad about love without commitment, Dylan and Gwen realize that walking away from what they’d once had might have been the biggest mistake of their lives. It still plays oldies, and those oldies can still cast spells over the tavern’s patrons. One thing hasn’t changed in Brogan’s Point: the antique jukebox in the Faulk Street Tavern. And she’s got a five-year-old daughter who looks an awful lot like Dylan. Six years later, she’s still in town-only now she owns the shop. But he still has memories of the charming seaside New England town where he’d spent one unforgettable night with Gwen Parker, a local shop clerk who’d wanted nothing more than a no-strings-attached fling.

The Magic Jukebox by Judith Arnold The Magic Jukebox by Judith Arnold

The last time Dylan Scott was in Brogan’s Point, he was a nobody.

The Magic Jukebox by Judith Arnold The Magic Jukebox by Judith Arnold

But once she becomes one of the Rockford Police Department’s prime suspects in Arthur Cavanagh’s murder, she’ll have to clear her name before she’ll ever be able to lace on her soccer cleats again.Ī lot can change in six years. Could his betrayed wife have killed him? Or maybe his buxom girlfriend? Or his alienated teenage son, who had once been a student of Lainie’s? Or maybe one of the anti-development environmentalists trying to shut down his business? Or the hunky construction foreman who was always butting heads with him?Īll Lainie wants to do is teach, make her gray hairs disappear and score against arch-rival Burlington in a soccer game-and maybe have a sex life, if that’s not asking too much. When Lainie spots the husband of one of her Rockettes teammates canoodling with another woman under the electric jalapenos at El Camino Restaurant one night, she is discreet-until he turns up dead, shot with a nail gun in a half-built McMansion his construction company was developing. Lainie Lovett’s passions, in no particular order, are her son and daughter, the fourth-grade class she teaches, and the Rockettes, the recreational league women’s soccer team in the sleepy Boston suburb of Rockford, Massachusetts.







The Magic Jukebox by Judith Arnold