USA Today Bestselling Author Bethany Lopez brings you her break-out series about getting a second chance at love later in life. Follow Whitney, Summer, Margo, Charlotte, and Andi as they experience the good, bad, and ugly of dating again in their thirties and forties. Join them in The Jilted Wives Club. When your first shot of love curdles, switch to a nice Cabernet. Charlotte never imagined she’d be a single mom in her thirties. With a fulfilling job, a sweet toddler, and a supportive family, she knows she should be counting her blessings, but it feels like something is missing… her. Although he and Charlotte made a marriage pact when they were teenagers, Damon always knew he’d never get married. An architect and artist, his life is full, and there has never been room for more than casual affairs. But lately, he’s felt like something is missing. When they find themselves alone in Italy, the food, wine, culture, and gorgeous countryside become the backdrop of a passionate affair. In the midst of finding themselves, they found each other. But when reality sets in, can they make this vacation romance into something that lasts, or will they be left with nothing but memories and a nice cabernet?

Most eligible billionaire bachelor is looking for a wife . . . When my father locked down my trust fund until I found a wife, my brother thought it would be funny to add my profile to a new matchmaking app that caused me nothing but headaches and frustration. Romance gave me hives and I had every reason NOT to believe in love, but as a billionaire, and the city’s most eligible bachelor that every woman wanted, I’d now become the face of ForeverLuv. Yes, a frenzy ensued, and I had no time or patience for the insanity. Deleting my profile proved impossible, so I paid a visit to the woman who owned the business and demanded she remove me. I didn’t expect her to stand up to me and flat-out refuse . . . I was a man used to snapping his fingers and people jumping to obey, but this vixen didn’t budge—because I was the reason why her waning business was now thriving, and it wasn’t her fault that my idiot brother pulled the prank. So that’s when I struck a deal with the curvy, sexy matchmaker . . . find me a suitable, compatible wife in one week’s time so I could recover my trust fund, and I’d invest in her barely surviving software company. Fail to find me a bride to meet my standards, and she’d have to stand in as my back-up wife. I swore I’d never fall in love . . . but then again, I’d never met a woman like Felicity Wright. It only took me a string of disastrous dates to figure it out.

There were no warning signs that Naomi's once-blissful marriage would leave her worried about divorce only four years later. Aaron Gabrielli was everything she wanted in a husband: adventurous, smart, witty, incredibly handsome, and responsible for the best sex of her life. But ever since the birth of their daughter and moving to Los Angeles to pursue his career as an entertainment attorney, their marriage has begun to fail. Aaron is drowning in work, trying to make partner at his firm. Naomi has been transformed into a stay-at-home mom in stretch pants. And forget about sex. It's been almost a year since that's happened. She's about to turn thirty, but feels like she's twice that. Then out of the blue, she hears from Jesse Pike, her childhood sweetheart. Their mothers are still best friends, but Naomi hasn't spoken to, or even thought about, Jesse in ages. When he invites her to spend Thanksgiving with him at his cabin in the Yukon wilderness, she is torn between her desire for adventure and what the risk might ultimately mean for her marriage.

USA Today Bestselling Author Bethany Lopez brings you an all-new series about getting a second chance at love later in life. Follow Whitney, Summer, Margo, and Charlotte, as they experience the good, bad, and ugly of dating again in your thirties and forties. Join them in The Jilted Wives Club. When men let you down, nothing’s better than a bourbon straight up. Margo has no time for games. A workaholic businesswoman in a male-dominated industry can’t afford any. After a failed attempt at marriage, she’s chosen to keep her affairs with men casual… with no strings and no expectations. Aiden has no time for complications. Working two jobs, co-parenting an active little boy, and helping out on his family’s farm hasn’t left him much time for relationships. And with one divorce under his belt, he has little desire to try again. Margo will never be a Work Wife again, but there’s something about Aiden that makes her want to let down some walls and see what happens. Can Margo and Aiden find room in their lives for each other, or will Margo be left with nothing but a bourbon straight up?

USA Today Bestselling Author Bethany Lopez brings you an all-new trilogy about getting a second chance at love. Follow Whitney, Summer, and Margo as they experience the good, bad, and ugly of dating again in your thirties and forties. Join them in The Jilted Wives Club. When life gives you lemons, make a Lemontini... Divorced and jobless at forty-something, Whitney never thought she’d be starting over. But here she is. Single and (not so) ready to mingle - with anyone except him. Luca leads a charmed life. He's got the perfect job, the support of a big Italian family, and a bevy of women eager to grant his mother’s wish for grandchildren… except the woman he really wants. Now that Whitney’s Starter Wife days are over, Luca is determined to convince her to give him a shot. Too bad the only shot Whitney’s sure of right now is the Lemontini.

USA Today Bestselling Author Bethany Lopez brings you an all-new trilogy about getting a second chance at love later in life. Follow Whitney, Summer, and Margo as they experience the good, bad, and ugly of dating again in your thirties and forties. Join them in The Jilted Wives Club. When at first you fail at love, medicate with Dirty Martinis… Summer has always tried to look on the bright side of things. Sure, her ex-husband was a liar and a cheater, but that didn’t mean all men were untrustworthy, right? Maybe the problem wasn’t her, but the type of man she’s always going for. Noah would rather spend his nights at home with a good book than out navigating the dating scene. Women like Summer have always terrified him and there’s no denying she’s way out of his league. But when she keeps popping up everywhere it becomes harder and harder to deny their chemistry. Summer wants to prove she’s more than a Trophy Wife. Sure, she’s sexy, sweet, and has a body that won’t quit, but she’s so much more, and she’ll do whatever it takes to prove it to Noah. Has Summer finally met her match, or will Noah leave her crying in her Dirty Martini?

When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more then a century. Why, then, do the Temple and its ritual feature so prominently in the Mishnah? Against the view that the rabbis were reacting directly to the destruction and asserting that nothing had changed, Naftali S. Cohn argues that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis in their own time. They described the Temple and its ritual in a unique way that helped to establish their authority within the context of Roman dominance. At the time the Mishnah was created, the rabbis were not the only ones talking extensively about the Temple: other Judaeans (including followers of Jesus), Christians, and even Roman emperors produced texts and other cultural artifacts centered on the Jerusalem Temple. Looking back at the procedures of Temple ritual, the rabbis created in the Mishnah a past and a Temple in their own image, which lent legitimacy to their claim to be the only authentic purveyors of Jewish tradition and the traditional Jewish way of life. Seizing on the Temple, they sought to establish and consolidate their own position of importance within the complex social and religious landscape of Jewish society in Roman Palestine.