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The Return Of Jonah Gray [Paperback]

Heather Cochran (Author)
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)


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March 1, 2007
Despite being attractive, intelligent and friendly, Sasha Gardner knows no man wants a phone call from her. Because Sasha is— a tax auditor for the IRS.

Every job has its downside. Auditing may interfere with her social life, but it's orderly. It makes sense. And sh's very, very good at it. But when unexpected complaints draw her into the tax return of a man sh's never met, nothing seems to make sense anymore.

Using the information in Jonah Gray's return, Sasha begins to assemble his life story: a rising career as a respected financial reporter, a house in a posh seaside village, weekends sailing the coast—it all reads like a life Sasha herself had dreamed of living, down to the guy's itemized deductions. So why had he left it behind to cover school-board meetings in a one-newspaper town?

What begins as a welcome distraction soon becomes a search for answers. Sasha knows it's ridiculous—sh's never even laid eyes on him—but she wouldn't be the first woman to fall for a man who looks good on paper—.


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A by-the-numbers woman pursues an earthy beau in Cochran's above-average second novel. Sasha Gardner, a 31-year-old IRS senior auditor, is, of course, single, to the dismay of her mother. Her last boyfriend was a dud, and Sasha is merciless when sizing up potential dates, but the new archivist at work, Jeff Hill, passes muster; his "touch of OCD" complements Sasha's detail-orientation. Besides, with increasingly troublesome family drama, a terminally ill father and a series of strange phone calls at the office, Sasha could use distraction. Her relationship, however, is derailed as she's smacked with a taboo crush: Jonah Gray, the journalist, proprietor of a popular gardening Web site and, unfortunately, an auditee. As Sasha sifts through Gray's financial data, the man becomes more and more intriguing, and her professional queries only leave her more curious. Cochran's novel is better written than most in the genre, and her take on the divergent lives of arborists and accountants is both poignant and humorous. (Mar.)
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From Booklist

Sasha Gardner is a tad obsessive, which is just fine with her job as an auditor for the IRS. When she starts receiving angry calls haranguing her for auditing a man she has never heard of, she's puzzled, until she learns a man named Jonah Gray has written on his Web site about the letter he received from her about a random audit. Sasha finds herself increasingly curious about Jonah, and what begins as a simple audit turns into anything but when the details about Jonah's life--that he left a high-paying job at the Wall Street Journal to work for a small-town paper, that he takes care of his elderly father--make her want to get to know the man behind the tax returns. But with her own father gravely ill and the new archivist at the office showing interest in her, Sasha isn't sure she's willing to risk her heart by pursuing a man she's never met. Cochran's second outing is both quirky and highly original. Kristine Huntley
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Mira (March 1, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0778323609
  • ISBN-13: 978-0778323600
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,958,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars thoroughly enjoyable, September 18, 2009
This review is from: The Return Of Jonah Gray (Paperback)
THE RETURN OF JONAH GRAY is a gentle love story, a visit with a dysfunctional family and seeing how much a career affects your personality all rolled into one. A play on words, Jonah is the recipient of an audit by Sasha Gardner. Jonah left his high profile job in Virginia as a journalist to work for a small-town paper in California. Add to this mystery he now blogs on the internet about gardening. Loved by all his followers, there has to be something wrong with him, right?

Sasha has a career working for the IRS. Just how much the job affects her personal life is seen in her relationships with boyfriends and family. I empathized with Sasha; how do you turn off your job when you are around someone new? And now the mysterious Jonah Gray enters her life on paper. What's a person to do?

Audit....Return....Gardening....Gardner. A contemporary romance without graphic sex, a slice of life among multiple characters; this book has it all. If you are unfamiliar with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) you'll take a peek at a couple of characters with the symptoms. Funny but not so funny since people really do suffer from this. And if you think your family is a little crazy wait until you meet Sasha's. And what a family it is! Secrets surface, hurt feelings need to heal and life changes bloom. Heather Cochran did a superb job of keeping me interested.

I don't really think of this as chick lit since there is so much depth within the story. I would recommend this book to the 35(+) age group for women. Call it a contemporary romance with a healthy dose of drama and peppered with some funny moments. The surprising part is when and how Sasha and Jonah finally meet. This is a keeper because it works!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazed how much I liked it., April 26, 2007
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It had the perfect balance of humor and drama from start to finish. The lead character, Sasha, is someone you connect with in the first 25 pages and from that point on you don't want to put the book down. All in all a wonderful read.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Tax Auditor? YES!, March 14, 2007
This review is from: The Return Of Jonah Gray (Paperback)
A quirky, troubled, likable heroine, a carefully-paced plot with a compelling human mystery at the heart of it -- nothing's missing here for a reader (me, for one) who loves to dive into a book and not come up for air until it's over. Cochran took on a real challenge by choosing a tax auditor as her protagonist. Fortunately, she meets it by avoiding cleverness and going for the human complexity and unpredictability that's always there if you know where to look for it. It's great to find a new writer who can do that.
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