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After four years with her boyfriend, Cadie McCaffrey is thinking of ending things. Convinced Will doesn't love her in the "forever" way she loves him, Cadie believes it's time for her to let him go before life passes her by. When a misunderstanding leads to a mistake, leaving her hurt, disappointed, and full of regret, she finally sends him packing. But for Will, the end of their relationship is only the beginning of his quest to figure out how to be the man Cadie wanted him to be. With the dubious guidance of his former pro-athlete work friends and tactics drawn from Cadie's favorite romantic comedies, Will attempts to win her back. It's a foolproof plan. What could possibly go wrong?Bethany Turner is back with more of the heart and humor readers love. Anyone who enjoys a good romance or binges romantic comedies on Netflix will devour this delightful story.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	21 mai 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781493417841
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Endorsements
“Rising star Bethany Turner’s Wooing Cadie McCaffrey highlights the author’s oh-so-readable voice and engaging characters. One of the many things I love about Turner is the way she tackles tough subjects with candor yet writes with the right amount of discretion. Romantics everywhere will sigh happily at the perfect ending. Highly recommended!”
Colleen Coble, USA Today bestselling author of The House at Saltwater Point and the Rock Harbor series
“Bethany Turner has done it again! Filled with wit and loaded with pop culture references, Wooing Cadie McCaffrey is sure to be an instant favorite among fans of Christian romance. I’ve found my new go-to author for rom-com with heart.”
Carla Laureano, RITA award–winning author of The Saturday Night Supper Club and Brunch at Bittersweet Café
“Reminiscent of your favorite 90s romantic comedy, Turner’s latest novel woos readers with a sparky meet-cute and seals the deal with a nostalgic grand finale. A modern, messy love story not to be missed.”
Nicole Deese, Carol Award–winning and RITA-nominated author
“Turner’s inimitable, playfully fresh, and surprising narrative are again at the helm in a sophomore novel that confidently plays with voice and timeline but never wavers in intention and warmth. Written by one of the most naturally gifted writers I have ever read, this fresh and beguiling novel takes the splendid clichés of romantic comedies and assuredly sets them in a study of a relationship in its ebbs and flows with great heart. Wooing Cadie McCaffrey is an essential addition to the canon of inspirational fiction.”
Rachel McMillan, author of the Van Buren and DeLuca series
“Well, Bethany Turner sure knows how to braid a healthy amount of humor, tears, and ‘I want to throw the book across the room because it hurts too much’ in her newest contemporary romance, Wooing Cadie McCaffrey . This cheeky and delightful read pairs romance and some dearly loved movie references to remove the ‘veil’ of perceptions and get to the heart of what love looks like. Don’t let the lighthearted tone deceive you. Turner hides a deep-hearted story about how selfishness, guilt, and misconceptions discolor our views of love and of God, which then leads us into all sorts of self-sabotage and heartache. Those who’ve fallen in love with Turner’s snappy dialogue and engaging characters will find that Will and Cadie keep your heart feeling every emotion . . . and rooting for their happily-ever-after. They are definitely MFEO.”
Pepper Basham, author of The Pleasant Gap and Mitchell’s Crossroads series
“Bethany Turner is taking Christian fiction by storm! Wooing Cadie McCaffrey has everything you ever wanted in a romantic comedy—witty banter, laugh-out-loud moments, and sigh-worthy romance. But don’t let the adorable cover and unique, lighthearted voice fool you. Turner and Wooing Cadie McCaffrey grapple with and shed grace-filled light on topics that have too long been pushed into our Christian closets. It’s safe to say that Wooing Cadie McCaffrey isn’t your grandmother’s Christian fiction, but everyone and their grandmother needs to read this book.”
Sarah Monzon, award-winning author of The Esther Paradigm
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Copyright Page
© 2019 by Bethany Turner
Published by Revell
a division of Baker Publishing Group
PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
www.revellbooks.com
Ebook edition created 2019
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
ISBN 978-1-4934-1784-1
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Published in association with Jessica Kirkland and the literary agency of Kirkland Media Management, LLC., PO Box 1539, Liberty, Texas 77575.
Contents
Cover
Endorsements
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Prologue
1. Four Years Later. To the Day.
2. About Twenty-five Minutes Earlier . . .
3. A Day or Two Later. Three at the Most . . .
4. A Year Earlier (AKA “That Whole Awkward Sex Talk”)
5. 7:00 (Back in the Time of Pigeons and Chromosomes)
6. At the End of the Date (But Not of the Day)
7. A Few Days Later (Long Before the Dust Settled)
8. A Million-and-a-Half Years Ago (Okay . . . More Like Three)
9. (Roughly) This Time the Week After Next
10. Tomorrow
11. While the Sports World Stood Still
12. The Bacteria Portion of the Morning
13. After a Day at the Lab
14. Three Weeks, Seven CDs, and a Billion Tic Tacs Later
15. A Few Hours of Moving Forward (or Moving Back)
16. From Friday Night to 3:15
17. About an Hour Later (the Aftermath)
18. Three Weeks Later (When Cadie Actually Started Her New Life)
19. When All Is Said and Done
20. The Rest of the Evening
21. At the End of the Day
22. Forever . . . In Spite of It All
Epilogue
An Excerpt of The Secret Life of Sarah Hollenbeck
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Back Ads
Back Cover
Dedication

Dedicated to the memory of Nora Ephron, Who taught me that you always need someone to kiss on New Year’s, That daisies are indeed the friendliest flower, And that sometimes people don’t just want to be in love. They want to be in love in a movie.
Prologue
F our years ago, on my thirtieth birthday, I had two very important realizations.
1) I didn’t need a man in my life in order to be happy or fulfilled.
2) My chances of meeting and falling in love with a man—and having him fall in love with me—would increase exponentially if I lowered my standards.
Not my standards for the man, of course. No, with the introduction of realization number one, the standards for the man had never been higher. If I didn’t need a man, then there was no harm in being very picky and waiting for the right one to come along. But with the introduction of realization number two, I could no longer deny that I did very much want to be in love . . . whether I needed to be or not.
In my heart of hearts, I knew I had no desire to settle for anything less than a man who would make at least one of the Bronte sisters proud. But there wasn’t much chance of falling in love with any man at all if I stayed hung up on the idea of my romantic life playing out like the classic novels and films I loved so much.
Cary Grant does not exist in my Millennial world.
Of course, I wasn’t expecting Will Whitaker to show up, or for him to burst onto the scene as if acting out a storybook meet-cute.
You know what a meet-cute is, right? It’s that charming first encounter between two characters that leads to a romantic relationship between them. Suffice it to say, with realization number two, I had given up on ever experiencing a true meet-cute. Actually, I was pretty convinced that I wouldn’t know a true meet-cute if it fell on me. I’d spent most of my life trying to force the meet-cute. Trust me . . . that doesn’t work. Intentionally bumping into guys and dropping your books rarely results in them saying, “Hey, let me help you with that.” I’ve found that “Hey, watch where you’re going!” is more common.
So by the time I turned thirty, I was absolutely convinced that meet-cutes were a thing of legend.
Enter Will, stage left.
It was a day like any other at ASN, the American Sports Network. That’s where I worked. ASN. But not like in sports or anything. Heavens, no. All I know of basketball, football, lacrosse, or any other sport is how much money is generated in advertising dollars as a result of our coverage of said sport, and how much all of those on-air sports people get paid. My office is in the part of the ASN complex that the sports people call The Bench. They come to our stark wasteland of blah concrete walls for marketing and accounting needs. Perhaps the occasional human resources disaster. But then they happily return to the glitz and glamour that they refer to as The Field.
“Gotta get back on The Field,” they love to say. On The Field? That sounds so stupid. But when I say “I’m heading over to The Field for a bit,” I am invariably met with questions that they think are hilarious. “Got some plowing to do, McCaffrey?” Sure.
So there I was, in The Bench—or on The Bench, as they continually correct me—when I heard the most dreaded of all birthday sounds: about twenty tone-deaf sports experts and about half as many barbershop quartet wannabes from The Bench, all singing “Happy Birthday.” To me, presumably.
“Oh, wow. You shouldn’t have,” I managed to say in a way that I’m pretty sure sounded grateful, as they made their way into my office—holding a monstrous cake ablaze with thirty giant candles.
“Happy birthday, dear Cadie,” they belted. “Happy birthday to you!”
I waited for Kevin Lamont, who was carrying the cake, to set it down on my desk so I could blow out the candles, but he just kept holding it. Kevin, of course, is now the host and executive producer of The Daily Dribble , the most successful show on ASN. He’s also the vice president over all prime-time programming for the network, which makes him my boss. But back then he was simply The Daily Dribble ’s host and one of my absolute favorite people around the ASN offices. And though he’s gone a bit gray and put on a little around his midsection, he certainly hasn’t lost a centimeter of height from his NBA days.
“Make a wish and blow out the candles,” Kevin teased as he held the cake at his shoulder height—which is still at least an inch above my head.
“Well, I’d love to, but—”
“Here, Cadie,” Max Post, resident sound engineer extraordinaire, chimed in as he pulled a chair over to my d