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Inkberry Books: April 10th at 7:00 PM

Author Bethany Turner 

Wes and Addie Had Their Chance


When her life crashes and burns in a flurry of secrets and redacted information, Addie Atwater-Elwyn hightails it home to the tiny mountain town of Adelaide Springs, Colorado--back to living with her dad, back to working a low-paying job, back to a life of disappointments. Growing up, nobody expected their local girl to become a high-ranking CIA 

analyst, married to a gorgeous CIA operative. But that was Addie's life until she lost...well, everything.

Now she's trying to pick up the pieces of her broken life with a little help from old friends. But there's one old friend she knows her life is better without--Wesley Hobbes, her childhood sweetheart who left her standing at the altar when they were eighteen years old. Truth be told, Addie would be perfectly content never seeing Wes's stupid face ever again--which makes it very inconvenient that he's now a beloved senator and presidential frontrunner, his face everywhere she looks. But that has nothing to do with Addie personally. He might make history, but in her book, he is history.
So, when the unwelcome Wes appears back in their hometown, no one rolls out the red carpet--not Addie and not an entire town that was forced to pick sides (and unanimously chose Addie) decades ago. Senator Hobbes certainly won't win the popular vote in Adelaide Springs.
Wes, meanwhile, is sitting on a few secrets of his own, including the political scoop of the decade: he'd seriously rather gouge his eyes out than spend another minute in politics, much less ever go anywhere near the White House. Addie knows there has to be more to the story, and her curiosity is clouding her judgment. You can take the girl out of the CIA, but it's not so easy to shake the CIA out of the girl. Of course, it's not just curiosity (and the acknowledgement that his face isn't so stupid after all) that's been reawakened inside her. But after more than two decades, it's too late. Wes and Addie already had their chance. Right?

"Another laugh out loud, pitch perfect romance from Bethany Turner." --Annabel Monaghan, New York Times bestselling author

About the Author

Bethany Turner is the author of eleven romance novels, including Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other, winner of the 2024 Colorado Book Award and an Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Romance. Its follow-up, Cole and Laila Are Just Friends, was a 2025 finalist for the Colorado Book Award and winner of the Colorado Authors League Award for Best Romance. The popular Adelaide Springs series, published by HarperCollins, concluded in the summer

of 2025 with Wes and Addie Had Their Chance. Bethany writes pop culture-infused rom-coms for a new generation of readers who crave fiction that tackles the thorny issues of life with humor and insight. She lives in Cortez, Colorado with her husband, whom she met in the nineties in a chat room called Disco Inferno. As sketchy as it sounds, it worked out pretty well in this case, and they are now the proud parents of two grown sons. Learn more at bethanyturner.com.