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Gaithersburg
Book Festival

May 17, 2025

10am – 6pm

Bohrer Park


Kennedy Ryan

Latest Title: This Could Be Us
This Could Be Us
This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan

“Heart-searing, sensual, and life affirming.” ―EMILY HENRY, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Featured on 
The Today Show!

Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who’s never met a party she couldn’t host or a charge she couldn’t lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her forever, goes poof in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion.
 
But there is no time to pout or sulk, or even grieve the life she lost. She’s too busy keeping a roof over her daughters’ heads and food on the table. And in the process of saving them all, Soledad rediscovers herself. From the ashes of a life burned to the ground, something bold and new can rise.

About Kennedy Ryan

USA Today best-selling author and Audie Award-winner Kennedy Ryan writes for women from all walks of life, empowering them and placing them firmly at the center of each story and in charge of their own destinies. Kennedy and her writings have been featured in NPR, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Glamour, Cosmo, Ebony, TIME and many others. The co-founder of LIFT 4 Autism, an annual charitable book auction, she has a passion for raising Autism awareness. She is a wife to her “lifetime lover” and mother to an extraordinary son. She will be presenting “This Could Be Us.”

Instagram: @kennedyryan1

Author Schedule:

Venue(s):

Gertrude Stein Pavilion

Presentation Start Time:

2:15 pm

Presentation End Time:

3:05 pm

Signing Time:

3:15 pm