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Toast the Author! with Elin Hilderbrand is coming to Eight Cousins bookstore on Friday, July 18 at 6 pm. The evening includes a wine social, a conversation with Hilderbrand, and a signing. Hilderbrand is a bestselling author with over 4 million copies of her books in print. In The Matchmaker, Dabney Kimball Beech, has a long history of matchmaking. When she discovers that she has pancreatic cancer, she becomes determined to make a few final matches: for her daughter, whom Dabney is convinced is engaged to the wrong man, her husband, and her lover. Hilderbrand’s latest book The Matchmaker is her thirteenth novel. Her previous books include Summer People, The Love Season, The Castaways, A Summer Affair, Barefoot, Silver Girl, Summerland, and Beautiful Day. Elin Hilderbrand has lived on Nantucket for twenty years. She runs every morning, delivers her children to their sporting events, and occasionally frequents the front row at the Chicken Box.