The Pub across the Pond

Sometimes leaving home is the only way to find where you truly belong. Carlene Rivers is many things. Dutiful, reliable, kind. Lucky? Not so much. At thirty, shes living a stifling existence in Cleveland, Ohio. Then one day, Carlene buys a raffle ticket. The prize: a pub on the west coast of Ireland. Carlene is stunned when she wins. Everyone else is stunned when she actually goes. As soon as she arrives in Ballybeog, Carlene is smitten, not just by the towns beguiling mix of ancient and modern but by the welcome she receives. In this small town near Galway Bay, strife is no stranger, strangers are family, and no one is ever too busy for a cup of tea or a pint. And though her new job presents challengesfrom a meddling neighbor to the pubs colorful regularsthere are compensations galore. Like the freedom to sing, joke, and tell stories and, in doing so, find her own voice. And in her flirtation with Ronan McBride, the pubs charming, reckless former owner, she just may find the freedom to follow where impulse leads and trust her heartand her luckfor the very first time.