The Business Trip
There are few things I love more than a great debut, and I’m so happy to end 2024 with one! If you want the nutshell synopsis, two women board a plane and things go all kinds of sideways when they land. I’d love to leave it at that, because this is one of those books that the less you know the better, but I’ll flesh it out just a tiny bit more. In Madison, Wisconsin, waitress Jasmine has been secretly plotting an escape from her abusive boyfriend, and has finally saved up enough money to buy a plane ticket to Denver. In the same city, Stephanie is the news director at a local TV station being sent on yet another work trip to a conference in San Diego, with a layover in Denver. As fate would have it, they end up sitting next to each other and talking during their flight, but what happens when they land? Well, if you’ve heard the saying “fate is a fickle thing” … that sums up the rest of the book pretty perfectly! I know this is all very vague and intentionally so, because this really is...