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Short Synopsis
Two-time Lambda Literary Award-winning author Ann McMan introduces listeners to Isabelle Lebrun, a quick-witted accidental train conductor whose love life always leaves her at the wrong station.
Full Synopsis
What happens when you're looking for love and all your best friends are romance readers?
Cue a clown car of ill-fated first dates that read more like failed first drafts of romantic fiction tropes than aspiring hunts for the love of her life.
Assistant conductor Izzy Lebrun spends her days riding the rails of The Green Mountain Zephyr between her home in Philadelphia and the end of the line in St. Alban's, Vermont. Beleaguered Izzy walks a tightrope—desperately trying to achieve a work-life balance between a job that pays the bills, and her dogged determination to finish her graduate degree so she can finally get a job that keeps her rooted in one place.
All she wants is to earn her PhD, get a damn cat, and find the love of her life.
Is that too much to ask?
We follow Izzy through her sometimes disastrous, sometimes implausible, but always hilarious journey through a maze of failed dates and epically bad one-night stands. Will Izzy ever get her ticket punched for a HEA or is this the end of the line for her?
Author Ann McMan
Narrated by Christine Williams
Publication date Jul 15, 2025
Running time 8 hrs
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