I’m on the tour for The Placeholder by Lynda Wolters today. Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and Rachel Wolters for the book to take part.
THE PLACEHOLDER, a mash-up of Thelma and Louise besties meet Eat, Pray, Love and Me Before You.
Middle-aged Serenade Kincaid has lost everything: her stepchildren, her house, half her earnings, her sports car, and her husband, all to a decades younger–and more fertile–woman.
Sera now drinks boxed wine from a plastic cup as she attempts to start over from her new home, a seedy motel, as she kills time scrolling dating apps in search of a semi-decent-not-mass-murderer-please-just-spend-time-with-me port in the storm.
As Sera discontentedly leapfrogs through men, her snarky, meddling boss and sometimes-best friend, Carolyn, encourages her to focus more on finding a friend with benefits, just until Prince Charming comes along, of course. Zac fits the bill.
He’s a self-proclaimed “unsuitable boyfriend” who looks to have jumped straight from the pages of a romance novel. Zac also insists he, too is only looking for some fun, which is perfect for Sera.
Cue the booty calls. And wow, are they hitting the spot. But just when Sera is starting to figure herself out, get her life back on track and think she may have found someone, life takes a sharp left. And all fun and games come to a screeching halt.
Now, Sera, Zac, and Carolyn must race against time to disentangle their web of lies and deceit before it’s too late.
The Placeholder is an unconventional, unforgettable, unputdownable story of loss and love.
The Placeholder is a book that I laughed and cried at in equal measure. A story of one woman and her life. Sera is divorced and alone, she specialises in drinking wine out of a box and in a cup as well these days. She is starting afresh and wondering how to do it. Enter Zac, another divorcee. They begin a free and easy, sex only relationship which is going OK and Sera feels she is going in the right direction. Then things take a turn noone could have foreseen.
I think I breathed this book in! I could swear the pages turned themselves, it flew by so fast before I knew it, I was closing the book. Sera is a woman who is so strong and determined, more people should be like this woman. In fact Lynda Wolters has written the characters so well I could have known them. I like Sera, flawed but so real. She started out so messy and grew as the book unfolded. Her best friend Carolyn, well, I think I want her as a friend too! A woman who takes no messing about, she will sort you out.
A story that I got fully involved with. I was invested in Sera and Carolyn’s friendship throughout. Sera’s bad decision making did make me wonder where her head was at but that was soon clear too! This is one of those books that make you feel like shouting at it as you know the character is going to regret what they are doing.
An original and contemporary story that is emotional and yet funny at times too. Realistic and well created characters which make this story one that flows so well. My first book by Lynda Wolters and I enjoyed it so much.
Purchase Links
Amazon US – https://www.amazon.com/Placeholder-Lynda-Wolters/dp/163755219X
Amazon UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Placeholder-Lynda-Wolters/dp/163755219X
Author Bio
Lynda was born and raised in a tiny farming community of 400 in northern Idaho. She worked on the family farm, with her first job being picking rocks out of the fields with her dad and grandpa. She graduated to driving both the truck and combine during harvest season. After high school, Lynda traveled to New York to be a nanny for a few months before moving to Las Vegas to further her schooling.
Lynda has worked in the legal field for 30+ years and enjoys ballroom and swing dancing, horseback riding, kayaking, and river rafting. She has a heart for people and regularly volunteers. Following a diagnosis of incurable cancer, Lynda began writing. Her first non-fiction book, Voices of Cancer, was released in 2019 (a piece was done by Jane Brody on January 20, 2020, and published in the NYT, and a grant purchased the Chinese translation rights, and Voices of Cancer is now offered to medical students in the Tawain area), and her second non-fiction book, Voices of LGBTQ+, was released in 2020.
The Placeholder, Lynda’s debut novel, will be released on November 1, 2022. Lynda currently has a middle-grade historical fiction manuscript about her in-laws, who were children in the Netherlands during WW2, in editing.
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