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Each book stands on its own with a fully solved case, while Jo, Bethany, and the people around them keep growing, book to book, into a world readers want to move back into.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eStart with Book One, \u003cem\u003eA Stranger's Last Conversation\u003c\/em\u003e, and keep going — the whole series builds toward one very messy, very ordinary life turning out to be anything but.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-strangers-last-conversation-available-late-september-2026","title":"A Stranger's Last Conversation","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; color: #182219;\"\u003eJo Whitfield just wanted a quiet corner to finish a presentation. Instead, she overhears a stranger's life falling apart one table over — a breakup gone quietly desperate, a grandmother's death, the kind of thing you forget by the time you order your next coffee. Jo doesn't forget it. 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