The Empty Nest Dating Club: A Funny and Uplifting Later-in-Life Romantic Comedy

One accidental post. Forty-three hopeful singles. Seven rules. And one rule Claire Dawson never expected to break.At fifty-two, professional organizer Claire Dawson is prepared for her only son to leave for university. She has packed the toothpaste, labeled the boxes and preserved his bedroom perfectly.What she has not prepared for is the silence he leaves behind.When a joke shared with three friends is accidentally posted to thousands of Seabury residents, Claire finds herself running the town's newest sensation: The Empty Nest Dating Club. Suddenly, dozens of divorced, widowed and cautiously hopeful singles are looking to her for brave experiences, honest advice-and maybe another chance at love.Nick Russo wants no part of it.The widowed owner of The Lantern House has spent five years protecting his memories, repairing his historic cinema and avoiding anything that might disturb the life he once shared with his wife. But when Claire persuades him to reopen the long-closed Balcony Room, Nick becomes reluctant Member Forty-Three.Then a compatibility test gives Claire and Nick a ninety-six-percent match.There is only one problem.Rule Five: Founding members may not date one another.Between disastrous coffee dates, meddling adult children, emergency fries, secret kisses and a coastal town watching their every move, Claire and Nick must decide whether protecting themselves is worth losing something neither expected to find.Funny, tender and filled with grown-up chemistry, The Empty Nest Dating Club is an uplifting slow-burn romance about female friendship, grief, reinvention and discovering that a full life is not built by being needed-it is built by choosing what belongs in it.