Book Around

08/25/2026

🥳 Wicked Wanted Widows book tour has launched Rhode Island FC with Book Around & we have so many fun events coming up with lots of swag, trivia & costume contests! Hope to see you there:

✨ Mon 8/24 4:00 pm 80s Party at Tower Hill Brewing with
Book a Break Reading Retreats & Bob Ryan
✨ Tues 8/25 at 6:00 pm Launch Event Ink Fish Books in Warren, RI Ink Fish Books
✨ Wednesday, Aug 26th — Books on the Square in Providence signing at 4:00 p.m. 
✨Thurs 8/27 6:00 pm author talk Barnes & Noble Warwick Barnes & Noble, Warwick RI
✨ Fri 8/29 6:30 pm 80s party An Unlikely Story with Reading Is My Cardio Book Club
✨ Sat 8/30 noon panel Barnes & Noble Walpole Mall

08/21/2026

Does anyone not have plans Saturday night but would possibly like some (bookish plans, just so we’re on the same page)

08/16/2026

⚽️ Giveaway time Rhode Island! ⚽️ to celebrate we’re literarily kicking off the Wicked Wanted Widows 80s book tour one week from today with a soccer game Rhode Island FC - we’re giving away a free package to the game that includes a ticket & signed copy of Wicked Wanted Widows + Book Around swag!

If you’re in the area Saturday evening & can attend, please leave a comment & I’ll pick one lucky winner TOMORROW! Watch for more giveaways all week!! 🥳

07/20/2026

Any party can be a bookish party if you love books enough!

Absolutely honored to have hosted this beautiful bride and absolute gem of a person for her bridal shower🤍

Biggest congrats to Abbie and Joe. Let’s get you married!

07/14/2026

07/13/2026

Another traveling ARC program?!

We’re still looking for readers to join Book Around’s latest traveling ARC program! I have personally read several Jackie Friedland Author books, and I ✨highly✨ recommend.

You know the drill - 🔗link below to learn more and sign up!

https://linktr.ee/florifundamentals

📚ABOUT THE BOOK📚

The current is threatening to pull them under.

Berry thought she had it figured out—juggling her vice principal role while raising her sixteen-year-old autistic son, Leo. But when a promotion opportunity collides with her family’s deepest needs, she must confront whether she’s been fighting the wrong battles all along.

McKenna is drowning. Between caring for her grandmother with dementia, losing her swimming scholarship, and facing homelessness, the college student’s carefully constructed world is crumbling. Her only lifeline? Teaching swim lessons to children with autism—including Leo.

As these two women’s paths converge in the most unexpected way, they discover that sometimes the people who need saving the most are the ones who end up saving you.