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Kristan Higgins, "A Little Ray of Sunshine"

Please join us at Mercy High School for a special book launch event with Kristan Higgins! Kristan, a Connecticut local and Mercy High alumna, is celebrating the release of her new novel A Little Ray of Sunshine.


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Tickets available exclusively through our Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore location.


A Little Ray of Sunshine

Harlow Smith thought she had finally achieved the quiet life she wanted—a little bookstore on Cape Cod, an apartment in her grandpa’s house, a more or less happily single life—when the biggest secret from her past walked into town and changed everything.

A kid walks into your bookstore and says to you, Guess what? I’m your son. The one you put up for adoption seventeen years ago. The one you never told anyone about. Surprise!

His name is Matthew Walker, and he’s come to spend the summer on the Cape with his parents. Why? Well, he wants to meet you before he heads off to college in the fall. Tiny detail—he didn’t tell his adoptive parents about his plan. And while you hoped this day would come someday, you’re so stunned, you actually faint. You’re overjoyed (and stunned) and worried (and stunned) and you’ve yearned to meet him, but you didn’t know it would be like this. Did you mention feeling stunned?

Even more gobsmacked is your family. The Smiths looked like (and thought they were) the perfect family in town. How could Harlow, the “boring sister” who runs the bookstore with her dotty old grandfather, have a secret baby? How did she keep this secret for so long?

More than the truth of that baby will come out over the summer ahead, a summer filled with emotion as more than one secret is revealed, long-lost hurts are discovered…and one slightly lost soul realizes the best of everything is yet to come.

Kristan Higgins is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of more than twenty novels, which have been translated into more than two dozen languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide. The happy mother of two snarky and well-adjusted adults lives in Connecticut with her heroic firefighter husband, cuddly dog, and indifferent cat.

Kristan Higgins

Admission options include:

  • single admission ticket and a copy of A Little Ray of Sunshine
  • single admission ticket only

Evening Agenda:

  • 5:30pm – Reception begins*, book sales and check-in
  • 6:15pm – Doors to event open and attendees can begin seating
  • 7:00pm – Event begins including a book talk, audience Q&A, and a signing line

*Reception menu courtesy of Mercy High School: clam chowder, crudite, and cranberry punch or cranberry seltzer.

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Can't make it to the event? Pre-order a signed & personalized copy of A Little Ray of Sunshine today.

Tickets available exclusively through our Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore (Middletown) location.

Event Date: 
Monday, June 5, 2023 - 5:30pm EDT
Event address: 
Mercy High School
1740 Randolph Rd
Middletown, CT 06457
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