Check out Step Ball Change  by Jeanne Ray

Caroline McSwain and her husband Tom are settling in for an unexpected and much appreciated dinner alone. Their four children are grown and they are looking forward to the graduation of their youngest son from college and the chance to enjoy the new Florida room they are adding to their house. With the ringing of the telephone, the adventure begins as their daughter Kay sobs hysterically that her rich society boyfriend Trey has proposed marriage. During that traumatic call, the second line rings, and Caroline’s sister Taffy tearfully announces that her husband Neddy has run off with a junior executive and that she is coming to visit. The contractor, Woodrow, who is building the Florida room and also repairing the crumbling foundation, has practically become a member of the family due to his extended presence in the house during these emotional times. Caroline and Tom are frantically haranguing their accountant, looking for a way to help pay for a high society wedding sporting a one-thousand person guest list on the budget of an public defender and a dance instructor. Taffy’s tiny dog Stamp is a canine manifestation of the emotional chaos of the household, unpredictably calm, demanding, frenzied, and occasionally drawing a little blood. Caroline and Taffy both finds refuge in teaching dance classes, and in the girls who tap their hearts out for their approval, but Caroline is increasingly frustrated by the aches of her sixty-two year old body. As Kay begins to doubt whether Trey is the right man for her, her former fling Jack is suddenly hanging around with the family, and her brother George is torn between following the professions of each of his parents – dancing and law. Surprise visits from Taffy’s film-producer daughter Holden, and Woodrow’s beautiful daughter Erica add more romance to the already whirlwind mix of starry-eyed, confused love-struck people.
Step-Ball-Change is as delightful as Jeanne Ray’s first book, Julie and Romeo, with a new cast of characters that you will grow to love. This novel is a welcome addition to light-hearted women’s fiction, and the audio book as read by the author is highly recommended. With quirky inflections and accents to capture each character’s personality, Jeanne Ray makes her characters laugh, cry and rejoice along with the listener.
Reviewed by Lissa Staley