"A wonderfully quirky, heartwarming tale!"

By: Lynn Schnurnberger

Genres: Romance Contemporary

Posted: January 30, 2011

Life is good for Tru Newman. She's got beautiful teenaged twin daughters, great friends and a devoted husband with an excellent job that affords her a comfortable lifestyle. That is, until the economy takes a dive and she finds that her family's one income has suddenly been lost.

Tru knows there's only one thing to do and that's go out there and get a job to help support her family during their hour of need! So, Tru does what any woman who has been out of the workplace for a number of years would do; she grabs her newly unemployed best friend and together they go into business for themselves.

And so gets unveiled the Veronica Agency, a call girl service that caters to the men who love cougars. They offer a wide variety of lovely and interesting over-40 women to appeal to a high brow clientele with assurances of utmost levels of confidentiality.

THE BEST LAID PLANS is a wonderfully quirky story about a very likable woman who finds her voice and her long buried confidence amongst the rubble of what could have proved to be a terribly unfortunate situation. Lynn Schnurnberger writes in such a way that is an absolute delight to read. Her storytelling is heart warming and at times, laugh out loud funny. When I first learned of the subject matter I thought it was going to be a slippery slope for the author to manage without coming across as distasteful or ridiculous, but Lynn Schnurnberger was able to spin the tale in such a way that was just perfect and I found myself gleefully devouring the book in just a few sittings.

Book Summary

Tru Newman is one of the Upper East Side "M&Ms" - stay at home moms who are into personal Maintenance and Mothering. Tru loves looking after her investment banker husband, Peter, and their twin teen daughters. But her perfect world spins off its axis the night Tru discovers that Peter's been out of work for three months.

Even worse, the family's been living on a house of cards - specifically, Visa and Amex - that's about to collapse.

Suze Orman tell Tru to "Get a Job!" But doing what? When Tru's best friend, Sienna Post, loses her position as an anchor on the local nightly news, the two hatch a profitable if illegal plan:

They'll open an escort service featuring over-forty "working girls" who cater to a roster of thirty-year-old clients. The cougar call-girl agency is a hit! But as Tru's business - and confidence - grows, her problems are just beginning.

The Best Laid Plans by Lynn Schnurnberger

The Best Laid Plans

by: Lynn Schnurnberger

Ballantine
January 1, 2011
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Featuring: Tru Newman; Sienna Post
288 pages
ISBN: 034549119X
EAN: 9780345491190
Kindle: B004FYZK5C
Hardcover / e-Book

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