We have best selling author, Marybeth Whalen, coming to Silver Coast Winery on Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 5:30pm for an author event promoting her book Handle With Care.

Handle With Care:

Three women walk into a post office. This is no joke—it’s the spark that
ignites a life-altering crisis.
On a quiet spring afternoon, an ordinary small-town post office becomes
ground zero for a domestic dispute. A husband draws a weapon and seals
the doors, holding four women captive: his frightened wife, a young
woman searching for meaning amid uncertainty, a mother on the brink of
letting go as her only daughter graduates, and an elderly woman
concealing a secret that could shatter everything she knows.
Outside, the negotiator works to keep a fragile peace, forced to confront
her own issues as every word becomes a lifeline.
Each of the three women who walked into the post office is carrying
something that, if mailed, would profoundly change her life. As minutes
become hours in this daylong siege, these strangers forge lasting bonds.
Handle with Care shines a light on hope found even in the darkest
moments, and illuminates how even strangers, thrown together by
chance and hardship, have the power to change each other’s lives.
A story about finding hope in the face of hardship and connection in
the face of crisis, Handle with Care is a novel for our time.

About Marybeth Whalen:

Marybeth Whalen is the author of Every Moment Since and nine previous novels. Marybeth received a BA degree in English with a concentration in Writing and Editing from NC State University a long time ago and
has been writing ever since. She is the co-founder of The Book Tide, an online community of readers where “a rising tide raises all books.” Marybeth and her husband Curt are the parents of six children, with only one left at home. A native of Charlotte, NC, Marybeth now calls Sunset Beach, NC home.