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Vera Stein Is Fine by Julie Murphy

Vera Stein Is Fine by Julie Murphy

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Format: Hardcover (plain edges)

Pages: 400

Published: July 21, 2026

Estimated spice: Spicy

Goodreads rating: 4.2+

Storygraph rating: 4.3+

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Publisher description

From #1 New York Times bestseller Julie Murphy comes a heartfelt and hilarious tale of a woman who thinks life and love have passed her by until she’s thrown into her grandmother’s quirky world of octogenarian free love and gets a second chance with the one man she never expected to see again. Perhaps it’s never too late to play the opening credits…

Welcome to Starlight Palms, a favorite retirement facility among Hollywood actors and industry professionals tucked away just outside of sunny Palm Springs. Filled with forgotten scream queens, eccentric screenwriters, and heartthrobs of the past, it has a brand-new resident: Vera Stein, age forty.

Vera knows she’s missed her chance at a life worthy of the silver screen, just like she missed her chance at ever finding true love. But Vera isn’t one to take chances. She’s spent most of her adult years caretaking for her dying mother and her movie star boss’s ego. Now abruptly houseless and jobless, Vera has nowhere to land, so to grandmother’s house we go!

The Starlight Palms Senior Living Center is midcentury Hollywood down to its pastel-painted bones. This desert gem isn’t lacking in saucy plot twists (swinging seniors, anyone?) or a leading man: Elias Buckley, the on-site doctor and Vera’s former ill-fated college fling and—for reasons that will stay in Vegas—legally her ex-husband according to the state of Nevada.

It’s not long before Vera falls into a job as the activities coordinator and under the spell of a certain smart-mouthed doctor… Suddenly all those empty years in LA look less like mistakes and a lot more like backstory. With a fresh start at her fingertips, Vera begins to see that even with all the detours she’s taken, there’s still a Hollywood ending (and maybe even a happily ever after) in sight…

TROPES

  • Second Chance Romance
  • Workplace Romance
  • Multigenerational Family Drama
  • Forced Proximity
  • New Lease on Life and Spice
Audiobook Contemporary Curvy rep Family drama Forced proximity Hardcover Julie Murphy July releases Mature Rom-com Romance Second chance Single dad Slow burn Spicy Workplace romance

SKU/ISBN:

9780063386839

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  • A 3D mockup of the book cover for 'Vera Stein Is Fine' by Julie Murphy, displayed against a solid pale pink background. The cover features a retro 1950s-style illustration with a woman lounging by a pool, palm trees, and a retro sign.
  • The book cover of 'Vera Stein Is Fine' by Julie Murphy, featuring a retro mid-century modern illustration of a woman in a pool with palm trees and a pink building, placed on a textured white blanket.
  • A hardcover book titled 'Vera Stein Is Fine' by Julie Murphy, featuring a colorful cover illustration of a woman by a pool, styled on a white textured blanket with white pom-pom garlands.
  • The back cover of the book, featuring a pink flamingo fountain spraying water from a swimming pool, set against a textured white blanket background.
  • A hand holds a copy of the book by Julie Murphy, showing the colorful cover art with a pink beach house and palm tree against a textured white blanket background.
  • An open illustrated book spread showing colorful architectural city scenes with buildings, palm trees, people, and signage, photographed on a soft white textured blanket with a hand holding the left edge.