Description:
The comic phrase "Wherever you go, there you are" is the bane of Monk and Jo's existence in this hilarious romantic novel by the owner of a renowned chocolate boutique in Washington, D.C. They can't escape the tragedy of their own lives. Monk is a "Home-Mart Man" ("I can do anything I want") whose vision, on his good days, is to open the first Mega Home-Mart. Jo bakes at the Cake & Coffee and dreams of making "the cake of a lifetime ... a cake to lay down and die for ... a cake I would offer to God." Jo and Monk get together because of a mutual addiction to Hotline Heaven, a volunteer crisis line. What they both have in common is a rather tentative hold on life itself. Both have lost a close family member in the past, and neither seems able to let go of "if only." If only Monk's son hadn't been so crazy about seeds, the crunching of which undoubtedly caused his brain tumor, then Monk would be a sure success. If only Jo's father hadn't gone out in that boat and shot himself, then she wouldn't want to end her own life by leaping into Great Falls. Hotline Heaven is a quirky, dark romance; it isn't until tragedy threatens their life together that Jo and Monk discover that they really do have a reason to live.
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