In Conversation with Jennifer Moorman & Rachel Hawkins

Join us at AOCB on January 24 at 6:30 pm for a conversation and mini wine tasting with Jennifer Moorman to hear about her new book The Vanishing of Josephine Reynolds. Our special guest Rachel Hawkins, author of The Heiress and The Villa, will be chatting with Jennifer about her new book.

Can one thoughtless wish erase a life?

Widowed at thirty-five, Josephine Reynolds wishes she could disappear, but her concerned sister convinces her to buy their ancestral home, a Craftsman bungalow in disrepair and foreclosure. It’s a welcome distraction, and Josephine can’t believe her luck when she finds the home’s original door in a salvage yard.

When she installs the door and steps through it, Josephine is transported into 1927, where she meets her great-grandmother Alma, a vivacious and daring woman running an illegal speakeasy in the bungalow’s basement. Immersed in the vibrant Jazz Age, Josephine forms a profound bond with Alma, only to discover upon her return to the present that history has been altered. Alma’s life was tragically cut short in a speakeasy raid just a week after their fateful meeting.

Josephine has a chilling revelation—her own existence is vanishing—and she must race against time to rewrite history. Josephine is desperate to not only save Alma but save her own future in a time-bending journey where past and present intertwine in a desperate battle for survival.