Colton Gentrys Third Act: A Novel

A story of love, healing, and second chances (Emily Henry) following a down on his luck country musician who, in the throes of grief after a shocking loss, moves back home and rekindles a relationship with his high school sweetheart, from awardwinning author Jeff Zentner.Colton Gentry is riding high. His first hit in nearly a decade has caught fire, hes opening for country megastar Brant Lucas, and hes married to one of the hottest acts in the country. But hes hurting. Only a few weeks earlier, his best friend, Duane, was murdered onstage by a mass shooter at a country music festival. One night, with his trauma festering and Jim Beam flowing through his veins, Colton stands before a soldout arena crowd of country music fans and offers his unfiltered opinion on guns. It goes over poorly.Immediately, his career and marriage implode. Left with few choices or funds, he retreats to his rural Kentucky hometown. Hes resigned himself to hasbeendom, until a chance encounter at his towns new farmtotable restaurant gives him a second shot at life: a job working in the kitchen with Luann, his first love, who has undergone her own reinvention. Told through perspectives alternating between his senior year of high school, his time coming up with Duane as hungry musicians in Nashville, and the present, COLTON GENTRYS THIRD ACT is a story of coming home, undoing past heartbreaks, and navigating grief, and is a reminder that there are next acts in life, no matter how unlikely they may seem.