The Accidental Sisterhood
We are promoting The Accidental Sisterhood by author and lifestyle expert Julie Edelman, published on October 8, 2024.
Jules Malone has sworn off love after two failed relationships: one with an abusive fiancé whom she calls her white knight-mare, and the other with a nice-but-boring ex with whom she co-parents their son, Max. But then one fateful Christmas Eve, Jules meets Sean, a twinkly-eyed charmer with a captivating smile and an unexpected invitation. Despite Jules’s efforts to stay guarded, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to him.
As their relationship deepens, so does Sean’s unpredictable behavior. He misses Jules’s calls, changes plans abruptly, and hangs up quickly when she enters the room. One night after returning home from a charity meeting, she finds Sean missing and blood everywhere. Panicked, she’s about to call 911 when she hears a phone ringing on her patio. It is Sean’s. By the time she gets to it, the caller has hung up. Multiple texts follow-as does Jules’s journey of shocking discoveries. The first? That she is one of four women sharing full lives with Sean.
But it is the devastating secret these women uncover together that leads to a resolution none of them could ever have imagined…and to the power of sisterhood.
About the author:
Julie is the bestselling author of The Accidental Housewife: How to Overcome Housekeeping Hysteria One Task at a Time. A book written as she went through a series of life-changing detours—love, marriage and a baby carriage. Stressed, guilt-ridden and struggling to balance her home, family and sanity with her multiple roles and responsibilities as a wife, mother, and advertising executive, Julie navigated these detours by developing and testing simple off-beat home-keeping tips and sprinkling them with her trademark humor and positivity. She then put them into a book, The Accidental Housewife. Before long, Julie built both a community of like-minded women and became a sought-after home-keeping contributor and go to gal appearing regularly on The Today Show, The View, Rachael Ray, The Drs, Fox and Friends, iHeart Radio and ABC Audio Networks.
Julie’s next detour came in the winter of 2023 when she was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer. Grateful she discovered it early and now over a year in remission she regards herself as one of the lucky ones. Julie navigated this journey with the the same positivity and humor (in high heels too!) that she embraced during her accidental housewifely detour. But this time Julie also realized a dream: She wrote her first women’s fiction novel, The Accidental Sisterhood. A book Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author describes as— “Witty and unexpected. Think Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies with a Dexterized dash of Sex in the City.”
The Accidental Sisterhood marks Julie’s return to the spotlight and her passion to inspire others as they go through life’s unexpected and accidental detours. She is continuing to do this in media appearances and speaking publicly about the power of positivity and sisterhood, and turning life-changing detours into dreams, no matter how big or little. Julie is an advocate for the Moffitt Cancer Center and was their featured survivor speaker at its 2024 National Board of Director’s Meeting and keynote speaker at Hooter’s 2024 Woman’s International Day luncheon.
Julie lives in St. Petersburg Florida close to her son Luke. He is her beacon of light and the ultimate acknowledgment of a blessed life, loved and lived fully. . . And never giving up.
