About the Book:

"You must learn to look beyond the evidence. It shows only what you wish to believe is real, not what you really wish to believe."

Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love...
(Hamlet, Shakespeare)

The Circle is in flux. It's been a hectic six months, and as the friends head into the heat of summer, more trials await that will truly test the bonds of friendship.

For whilst a circle may contract and may even at times constrict, it can also expand, accommodate, embrace.
And it is always whole.
Eternal.

Set over a period of six months (July-December), In The Stars Part II continues to explore the day-to-day lives of The Circle - nine friends from high school, now in their late thirties - following them through a year of celebration, loss, illness and life-changing decisions.

In The Stars Part II is Season Five in the Hiding Behind The Couch Series. This book is also available as six separate episodes.

The story follows chronologically from In The Stars Part I (Season Four) and Breaking Waves (Novella). It continues in A Midnight Clear (Novella), Red Hot Christmas (Novella) and Two By Two (Season Six).

For those readers unfamiliar with the series, In The Stars Part I re-introduces the main characters, so you could pick it up from there and perhaps catch up with the previous books later.

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WARNING: this story contains intimate (moderately explicit) scenes between consenting opposite sex (F/M) adults.

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What readers say about the Hiding Behind The Couch Series:

"The remarkable characterisation in these novels is what makes them for me."

"This story reminds me of my favorite movies about friendship and relationships."

"Few authors have explored the depths of longtime friends within a group, or 'circle' the way Debbie McGowan has!"

"The way the author deals with the complexities and issues in these books is delicate and compassionate, but with a matter-of fact-grit that smacks of reality."


In The Stars is also available as 12 separate episodes (ebook only). See links below.

[Link to suggested reading order]

About the Author:

Debbie McGowan is an award-winning author of contemporary fiction that celebrates life, love and relationships in all their diversity. Since the publication in 2004 of her debut novel, Champagne – based on a stage show co-written and co-produced with her husband – she has published around fifty further works. She is the author of two ongoing series: Hiding Behind The Couch (a literary ‘soap opera’ centring on the lives of nine long-term friends) and Checking Him Out (LGBTQ romance)... Read More

Other Publications by Debbie McGowan:

• Meredith's Dagger
• Play On...
• The Great Pretendo
• Seasons of Love
• The Great Village Bun Fight
• Never Too Late
• So Long, Little Black Diamonds
• Of The Bauble
• Take A Chance Anthology: A Collection of Gay Romance for New Adults
• And The Walls Came Tumbling Down
• Love Unlocked
• Cherry Pop Valentine
• Coming Up
• Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday Anthology
• Sugar and Sawdust
• Champagne
• Double Six
• No Dice
• Time to Go (in Story Salon Big Book of Stories)

Checking Him Out (Series)

• Checking Him Out (Checking Him Out #1)
• Checking Him Out For The Holidays (Checking Him Out Novella)
• Hiding Out (Checking Him Out / HBTC Novella)
• Taking Him On (Checking Him Out #2)
• Checking In (Checking Him Out #3)
• Checking Him Out Box Set One
• The Making Of Us (Checking Him Out #4)

Gray Fisher (Series)

• The WAG and The Scoundrel (Gray Fisher #1 / HBTC Spin-Off)
• Tabula Rasa (Gray Fisher #2 / HBTC Spin-Off)
• Distractions (Gray Fisher #3 / HBTC Spin-Off)
• Gray Fisher Trilogy (HBTC Spin-Off)

Hiding Behind The Couch (Series)

• Beginnings (HBTC Novella)
• Ruminations (HBTC Novel)
• Class-A (HBTC Short Story)
• Hiding Behind The Couch (HBTC #1)
• No Time Like The Present (HBTC #2)
• The Harder They Fall (HBTC #3)
• Crying in the Rain (HBTC Novel)
• First Christmas (HBTC Novella)
• In The Stars Part I: Capricorn-Gemini (HBTC #4)
• Hiding Behind The Couch Box Set One (HBTC Box Set)
• Breaking Waves (HBTC Novella)
• In The Stars Part II: Cancer-Sagittarius (HBTC #5)
• Chain of Secrets (HBTC Novella)
• A Midnight Clear (HBTC Novella)
• Red Hot Christmas (HBTC Novella)
• Two By Two (HBTC #6)
• Hiding Out (Checking Him Out / HBTC Novella)
• Those Jeffries Boys (HBTC Novel)
• The WAG and The Scoundrel (Gray Fisher #1 / HBTC Spin-Off)
• Reunions (HBTC #7)
• Breakfast at Cordelia's Aquarium (HBTC Short Story)
• To Be Sure (HBTC Novella)
• Hiding Behind The Couch Novellas & Short Stories (HBTC Box Set)
• Hiding Behind The Couch Box Set Two (HBTC Box Set)
• What A Scorcher! (HBTC Flash Fiction)
• Tabula Rasa (Gray Fisher #2 / HBTC Spin-Off)
• Goth of Christmas Past (HBTC Novel)
• The Lost Mitten
• The Advent of Reason (HBTC Novella)
• Not My Christmas (HBTC Novella)
• Distractions (Gray Fisher #3 / HBTC Spin-Off)
• Gray Fisher Trilogy (HBTC Spin-Off)
• Perfect Tenor (HBTC Novella)
• Reverberations (HBTC Novel)
• Alumni: Reverberations (HBTC Novel)
• Alumni: Resolutions (HBTC Novel)

Seeds of Tyrone (Series)

• Leaving Flowers (Seeds of Tyrone #1)
• Where the Grass is Greener (Seeds of Tyrone #2)
• Christmas Craic and Mistletoe (Seeds of Tyrone #3)
• Seeds of Tyrone Box Set

When Skies Have Fallen (Series)

• When Skies Have Fallen
• A Snowy Ball (When Skies Have Fallen #1.5)