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Filled with forgotten scream queens, eccentric screenwriters, and heartthrobs of the past, it has a brand-new resident: Vera Stein, age forty.\n \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003c!-- Accordion --\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"fc2-accordion\"\u003e\n\n    \u003cdiv class=\"fc2-acc-item\"\u003e\n      \u003cbutton class=\"fc2-acc-btn\" onclick=\"fc2Toggle(this)\"\u003e\n        Full synopsis \u003cspan class=\"fc2-acc-icon\"\u003e+\u003c\/span\u003e\n      \u003c\/button\u003e\n      \u003cdiv class=\"fc2-acc-content\"\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eFrom #1 New York Times bestseller Julie Murphy comes a heartfelt and hilarious tale of a woman who thinks life and love have passed her by until she's thrown into her grandmother's quirky world of octogenarian free love and gets a second chance with the one man she never expected to see again. Perhaps it's never too late to play the opening credits...\u003c\/p\u003e\n         Welcome to Starlight Palms, a favorite retirement facility among Hollywood actors and industry professionals tucked away just outside of sunny Palm Springs. Filled with forgotten scream queens, eccentric screenwriters, and heartthrobs of the past, it has a brand-new resident: Vera Stein, age forty. \n        \u003cp\u003eVera knows she's missed her chance at a life worthy of the silver screen, just like she missed her chance at ever finding true love. But Vera isn't one to take chances. She's spent most of her adult years caretaking for her dying mother and her movie star boss's ego. Now abruptly houseless and jobless, Vera has nowhere to land, so to grandmother's house we go!\u003c\/p\u003e\n       \u003cp\u003eThe Starlight Palms Senior Living Center is midcentury Hollywood down to its pastel-painted bones. This desert gem isn't lacking in saucy plot twists (swinging seniors, anyone?) or a leading man: Elias Buckley, the on-site doctor and Vera's former ill-fated college fling and--for reasons that will stay in Vegas--legally her ex-husband according to the state of Nevada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n      \u003cp\u003eThe Starlight Palms Senior Living Center is midcentury Hollywood down to its pastel-painted bones. This desert gem isn't lacking in saucy plot twists (swinging seniors, anyone?) or a leading man: Elias Buckley, the on-site doctor and Vera's former ill-fated college fling and--for reasons that will stay in Vegas--legally her ex-husband according to the state of Nevada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n     \u003cp\u003eIt's not long before Vera falls into a job as the activities coordinator and under the spell of a certain smart-mouthed doctor... Suddenly all those empty years in LA look less like mistakes and a lot more like backstory. With a fresh start at her fingertips, Vera begins to see that even with all the detours she's taken, there's still a Hollywood ending (and maybe even a happily ever after) in sight...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n      \u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n    \u003cdiv class=\"fc2-acc-item\"\u003e\n      \u003cbutton class=\"fc2-acc-btn\" onclick=\"fc2Toggle(this)\"\u003e\n        About the author \u003cspan class=\"fc2-acc-icon\"\u003e+\u003c\/span\u003e\n      \u003c\/button\u003e\n      \u003cdiv class=\"fc2-acc-content\"\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eJulie Murphy splits her time between North Texas and Kansas with her husband, who loves her, and her cats, who tolerate her. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author and coauthor of over twenty books for all ages including Dumplin' (now a Netflix original film) and the Christmas Notch series cowritten with her best friend, Sierra Simone. 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