The Secret of Snow

by Viola Shipman

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:THE INSTANT BESTSELLER! USA TODAY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY INDIE BOOKSELLERS "A beautifully written story about second chances. Fans of women's fiction won't be able to put this down." �??Publishers Weekly The forecast is calling for a reluctant homecoming and regrettable decisions with a strong chance of romance... When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist whose job is all sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist that will never age, gain weight or renegotiate its contract, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old another shot is the very place Sonny's been avoiding since the day she left for college�??her northern Michigan hometown. Sonny grudgingly returns to the long, cold, snowy winters of her childhood...with the added humiliation of moving back in with her mother. Not quite an outsider but no longer a local, Sonny finds her past blindsiding her everywhere: from the high school friends she ghosted, to the former journalism classmate and mortal frenemy who's now her boss, to, most keenly, the death years ago of her younger sister, who loved the snow. To distract herself from the memories she's spent her life trying to outrun, Sonny throws herself headfirst into covering every small-town winter event to woo a new audience, made more bearable by a handsome widower with optimism to spare. But with someone trying to undermine her efforts to rebuild her career, Sonny must make peace with who she used to be and allow her heart to thaw if she's ever going to find a place she can truly call home.<… (more)

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aubriebythepage | Jul 7, 2023 |

Years ago, Sonny left the frigid north for sunnier climes. A meteorologist, she has had a great career, until she is replaced by an computer avatar. Now, 50-ish and jobless, she reluctantly accepts a job back in her home state of Michigan, complete with cold weather, ice, and lake-effect snow. She is hired by a woman she knew from college, one whom she treated rather poorly. Sonny has a lot to deal with in her new life, and much of it involves confronting her feelings about the death of her younger sister when they were both kids. This story is well written, and the characters are interestingly real, especially since they are not perfect. They learn to cope, change as needed, and develop life skills. The relationships between family members and between friends and co-workers are also show growth and development. It’s a feel-good story without being too sweet. (

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Maydacat | Sep 17, 2022 |

It starts off slow, but don't give up on it. I thought it was not going to be worth the time and effort to read at first. Who wants to devote time to read about an entitled woman who loses her job, has to go home, gets a new job, totally doesn't listen to anyone, not family, not friends, thinks everything has to be her way and runs from any confrontation? Once I found out what she was running from, the whole book became 100% better and began to make much more sense. Loss and grief effect different people in different ways. Sonny didn't want to have to face the loss and her own thoughts about possibly causing the tragedy. It took opening that part of her life up to self-scrutiny and sharing her issues with others to get her past the block in her heart and the block she put up around anyone getting too close. The Secret of Snow will bring you to tears, give you some laughs, and remind you that few things in life are more important than family and love. (

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Carol420 | Jun 11, 2022 |

I (along with someone else) had to check to see if it was Christian Fiction as I read, or a Hallmark movie book. If you like those you'll love this. It did have some good humor, and thought provoking issues for this 50 something woman in a man's work world. (

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EllenH | Jun 6, 2022 |

I had to look up to see if this was a “Christian” read or just cheesy Hallmark Holiday-esque. It’s just…too much, too overwrought, too obvious. Premise is decent and I like that the protagonist is aged 50 (conveniently uber-fit) and a woman of science, but those details are not enough to make this more than hallmark pulp in print form. I’ll put it in a holiday book display but can’t actually recommend it. (

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quirkylibrarian | Feb 12, 2022 |

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:THE INSTANT BESTSELLER! USA TODAY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY INDIE BOOKSELLERS
"A beautifully written story about second chances. Fans of women's fiction won't be able to put this down." �??Publishers Weekly
The forecast is calling for a reluctant homecoming and regrettable decisions with a strong chance of romance...
When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist whose job is all sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist that will never age, gain weight or renegotiate its contract, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old another shot is the very place Sonny's been avoiding since the day she left for college�??her northern Michigan hometown.
Sonny grudgingly returns to the long, cold, snowy winters of her childhood...with the added humiliation of moving back in with her mother. Not quite an outsider but no longer a local, Sonny finds her past blindsiding her everywhere: from the high school friends she ghosted, to the former journalism classmate and mortal frenemy who's now her boss, to, most keenly, the death years ago of her younger sister, who loved the snow.
To distract herself from the memories she's spent her life trying to outrun, Sonny throws herself headfirst into covering every small-town winter event to woo a new audience, made more bearable by a handsome widower with optimism to spare. But with someone trying to undermine her efforts to rebuild her career, Sonny must make peace with who she used to be and allow her heart to thaw if she's ever going to find a place she can truly call home.

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