{"product_id":"2940149627622","title":"It's Nothing Personal","description":"After marrying her high school sweetheart while in college, Mary Ellen and Tripp rear their two daughters on the large farm Tripp inherited from his parents in the Midwest. When the girls are in college, Tripp has a tragic accident on the farm, and Mary Ellen suffers in silence with her grief. Her girls are gone, and she's alone on the farm, which Tripp's lifelong friend, Jack – a widower, is managing for her. Unable to deal with her loneliness any longer and desperate for affection, she has been reading the personal columns and trying to decide how to make a connection with someone. Well, almost anyone. She does have a few standards they must meet. A nice looking face and CLEAN. These days one can't be too sure. She'll need a medical release, at least. Can't be overly cautious these days. But all she really wants is the physical closeness of the act.  \u003cbr\u003e Her daughters surprise her while visiting them on campus when they announce they are just fine with her dating and remarrying. They understand her grief, loneliness and isolation on the farm. While that's a surprise to Mary Ellen, no one has asked her out in the small community where she lives. She doubts there is anyone there who would even want to date her.  She has already submitted her personal ad to a newspaper in Chicago and hired a detective agency to check up on any responses that interest her. What she doesn't count on is the number of responses! Perhaps the wording of her ad had a little something to do with the paper box full of letters she picked up on that first trip in to Chicago. \u003cbr\u003e What she hasn't counted on is Jack, the man who has loved her since first grade – her husband's best friend. She also hasn't mentioned to her girls is Todd, the magnificent retired Marine colonel she meets when she decides to volunteer at her local elementary school. When the action gets going, Mary Ellen has a magnificent time the winter she meets Todd, who has decided it is now time to find a wife and live the life he's always wanted in small town USA, and Jack tries to keep Mary Ellen from her outrageous plan to bed a complete stranger, even when she tells him \"It's nothing personal.\"","brand":"Celia Dunbar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101402284272,"sku":"2940149627622","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149627622_p0.jpg?v=1763720317","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149627622","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}