Finding Fran: A Midlife Moxie Novel

A cheating lover and a failing career—Fran is facing a midlife mess!

Once a best-selling romance novelist, 55-year-old Fran Carter is now dealing with a slow but steady drop in book sales and a major case of writer’s block, complicated by the knowledge that her lover, a professional photographer, has been on the wrong side of the camera (so to speak) with his models. (So much for her author brand, built on the premise that women in their fifties and beyond can still find love and happiness.)

In search of peace and quiet, Fran escapes to a bed-and-breakfast on the northern California coast. But instead of the solitude and isolation she hoped for, she finds an eccentric elderly innkeeper who is both a fan of the genre and an avid reader more than ready to give her critique of Fran’s books, along with several Gen Z women—all of whom offer their advice and encouragement as Fran struggles to turn her midlife mess into a midlife success.