Hello Stranger is the new reality for portrait artist Sadie Montgomery as she suffers from a side effect of brain surgery called prosopagnosia, or face blindness, a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces, in the latest from Katherine Center that arrived on bookshelves July 11.
Sadie had just placed as a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition when she was ready to celebrate and start her entry only to be shot down thanks to her brain scrambling the pieces of people’s faces. She only has a few weeks to start and finish a new portrait to enter into the contest that offers a huge prize. While face blindness may be only temporary, there are no guarantees that the faces she sees will clear up.
As if suffering face blindness was not enough of a challenge, Sadie faces other problems: major family issues thanks to an evil stepsister, the failing health of her dog Peanut who her late mother had given her, and an obsession with two men, one her handsome new vet and the other a neighbor in her art studio/apartment building.
As she struggles to create a portrait for the competition when she cannot even see her subject’s face any other way but in “pieces,” her end result tends to look like something scrambled as in a Picasso painting, an entry the Portrait Society is not likely to favor. Because this is a contemporary romance, readers will get feel-good vibes as Sadie deals with life as a face-blind person juggling potential romances with two men whose faces she cannot see.
Katherine Center is the New York Times bestselling author of nine
other books, including The Bodyguard, Things You Save in a Fire,
and What You Wish For. Her book The Lost Husband was made into a
Netflix movie, and Happiness for Beginners will air on Netflix starting
July 27 starring Luke Grimes from the TV series “Yellowstone.” Center lives in
her hometown of Houston, Texas, with her family.
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