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 HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN:  Here is the world’s most difficult task for all you Reds and Readers today!

I need a title for my new book. Can you help?

Here is a little bit about it.

A mysterious plane crash with two teenaged sisters as the sole survivors.  They are dear friends and pals, they are in it together, they bicker, but they adore each other. 

Many years pass, and one of the sisters, our heroine, becomes a newbie literary agent  and specializes in sooks with happy endings… Since she did not have one herself.  

The other sister, the older one, got married, and now has a precocious and adorable  pre-teen daughter.  The sister is divorced, however, and has become a famous fashion influencer. 

The agent-sister and the preteen daughter are very close, and as the story opens, she and her niece have just finished spending a wonderful fun week together while the mom is taking a little break, and they are waiting for the mom to come pick her up. 

But the Mom does not arrive. 

Thing is, it’s the 11th anniversary of the plane crash. The crash that ruined their family and took their parents from them.  And now the sister is missing.  Definitely missing.

And it seems like the two things must be connected – – plus, there’s a mysterious manuscript, an iffy ex-husband, a series of grisly murders in the Berkshires, and a literary agent who perhaps knows more than she’s saying.

I am being deliberately vague here, for obvious reasons, but:

It’s about mothers and daughters and sisters, it’s about family, it’s about the power of storytelling, about how a story is supposed to end, it’s about a serial killer, and justice, and flying, and it’s about vengeance from the past. 

Throw around some words for me, OK? Any ideas?

Some titles come easily, you know that--ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS had a title before it had a story.   (And now it is an instant USA Today best seller!)

Now this book, publishing in 2026  is essentially finished! But--it does not have the title :-) 

And now that’s up to you.