Mindy Lynne Agnoff

Novel · Spring 2028

Trudy Takes a Trip

Buckle Up. It's about to get bumpy!

One jilted bride, hoping to mend her broken heart. One charming salesman, fleeing his past.

One cross-country road trip to change their lives.

What could possibly go wrong?

What I'm reading

A reader's life, one post at a time

Scroll through a few recent favorites, then open the full feed for Mindy's book notes, coastal moments, and life between chapters.

Mindy reading The Calamity Club with her Labradoodle on a coastal porchMad Mabel displayed on an e-reader beside fresh flowersThe Bright Years by Sarah Damoff on an e-readerWriters & Lovers by Lily King beside tulips and a mugThe Road to Tender Hearts packed beside a green suitcase and travel mugMe Before You held against a sunny coastal gardenStrangers by Belle Burden beside hydrangeas and candlesA young child reading My Little Bookworm in a cozy chair

The route

From Cherry Hill to the Pacific

Cherry Hill, New Jersey to the Pacific—with a few wrong turns. The whole book is one long drive west, and this is roughly the map of it.

Illustrated road-trip map from Cherry Hill, New Jersey to the Pacific coast
  1. Cherry Hill, NJ
  2. Philadelphia, PA
  3. Indianapolis, IN
  4. St. Louis, MO
  5. Las Vegas, NV
  6. Los Angeles, CA
Mindy Lynne Agnoff

About Mindy

Jersey girl. Coastal reader. First-time novelist.

Mindy Lynne Agnoff now calls North Carolina's coast home, where a life in advertising, stationery, Pilates, and philanthropy eventually led her to write Trudy Takes a Trip.

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