What Best Friends Do

About the Book

Tom Simmons, the thirty-five-year-old manager of the family hotel in San Francisco, has to fly back to his hometown of Chicago for the annual family business meeting. Little does he know that this flight will begin a series of embarrassing, comical, and life-changing events. Julie Evers, an attendant working on the same fateful flight, finds her life forever changed as a result of her interaction with Tom. For reasons neither of them understand, their paths continue to cross numerous times both in Chicago and in San Francisco, much to their mutual dismay. But despite some awkward and, sometimes, disturbing encounters, and against Julie’s stubborn objections, a relationship gradually takes seed and turns out to be exactly what both Tom and Julie need. I hope you will join me in this humorous, rocky, and unpredictable journey to happiness. Learn how Tom and Julie, thrown together repeatedly at the most inopportune times and often under the worst possible circumstances, still somehow find love. And even more to their surprise, they find that they are exactly the person designated to fill each other’s gaping emotional void—selected in a way even more surprising and unexpected than their implausible relationship.

About the Author

Edward W. Pluemer is a retired businessman, transplanted from Chicago, and now living in San Pedro, California, with his wife, Linda. He is a born and raised Chicagoan and a die-hard Chicago Cubs fan, and the city and the baseball club both belonged in the storyline of this book. Edward W. Pluemer’s first book, Shout Out, published by Xlibris LLC in 2015, also took place in and around the greater Chicago area. If you enjoy What Best Friends Do, with its Chicago-infused humor and culture, we’re sure you will also enjoy following the entertaining rock-and-roll career of the central character, Bob Palmer. For more details about Shout Out, see Another Selection from Ed Pluemer in the back of this book.