03447cam a2200637 i 4500 2673475146 TxAuBib 20260204120000.0 240915s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593873441 hardcover $29.00 0593873440 hardcover $29.00 (OCoLC)1455748148 TxAuBib rda Hartnett, Annie, author. The road to tender hearts : a novel / Annie Hartnett. First edition. New York : Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2025] ©2025. 369 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier "At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest man in Pondville, Massachusetts, if it weren't for the tragedies of his life: the sudden death of his eldest daughter and the way his marriage fell apart after that. Since then, PJ spends both his money and his time at the bar, and he probably doesn't have much time left--he's had three heart attacks already. But when PJ reads the obituary of his old romantic rival, he realizes his high school sweetheart, Michelle Cobb, is finally single again. Filled with a new enthusiasm for life, PJ decides he's going to drive across the country to the Tender Hearts Retirement Community in Arizona to win Michelle back. Before PJ can hit the road, tragedy strikes Pondville, leaving PJ the sudden guardian of his estranged brother's grandchildren. Anyone else would be deterred from the planned trip, but PJ figures the orphaned kids might benefit from getting out of town. PJ also thinks he can ask Sophie, his adult daughter who's adrift in her twenties, to come along to babysit. And there's one more surprise addition to the roster: Pancakes, a former nursing home therapy cat with a knack of predicting death, who recently turned up outside PJ's home. This could be the second chance PJ has long hoped for--a fresh shot at love and parenting--but does he have the strength to do both those things again? It's very possible his heart can't take it."--Provided by publisher. 20260204. Older men Fiction. Older people Fiction. Lottery winners Fiction. Automobile travel Fiction. Life change events Fiction. Orphans Fiction. First loves Fiction. Families Fiction. Nursing homes Fiction. Cats Fiction. Interpersonal relations Fiction. Older men. fast Older people. fast Lottery winners. fast Automobile travel. fast Life change events. fast Orphans. fast First loves. fast Families. fast Nursing homes. fast Cats. fast Interpersonal relations. fast Road fiction. Humorous fiction. Fiction. fast Road fiction. fast Humorous fiction. fast T3S