Two families . . .bound by friendship . . .devastated by secrets
For ten years Emily Dobbs and Marcie Carter have been the closest of friends. They've raised their kids together, shared joy and heartache, exchanged neighborhood gossip over tea. But when Marcie's son, now a college freshman sports star, is arrested for date rape, the bond between the families could be shattered forever.
As the Carters try to deal with the unthinkable, Emily discovers her daughter has been hiding a terrible secret . . . a secret that threatens the futures of both families. Recently divorced, Emily struggles to keep it all together—to support her terrified daughter, to maintain her friendship with Evan's mother and to have faith in the detective who could change all their lives.
When things seem darkest, both she and Marcie discover that sometimes the first step toward a better future is mending fences with the past.
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Life can be full of surprises...
Helen Decatur spent a lifetime setting goals — getting through college and law school, opening her own practice, becoming financially secure and establishing herself as one of the most highly respected matrimonial attorneys in the state of South Carolina. Achieving those goals was a breeze compared to the one she's faced with now.
The most driven — and cynical — of the Sweet Magnolias, Helen is forty-two, single and suddenly ready for the family she's put on the back burner for all these years. Unfortunately, having a child at her age comes with lots of complications, not the least of which is the absence of a serious relationship in her life.
But Helen's not the type of woman to wait around for fate to step in. Taking charge of her own destiny puts her at odds with her two best friends, sets sparks flying with a man who doesn't want a family, and leads her straight into the most unexpected complication of all...love.
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She's found the perfect recipe for a new beginning
Dana Sue Sullivan has spent her whole life stirring up trouble, but nothing's prepared her for the chaos that results after she kicks her cheating husband to the curb. Starting her own restaurant is stress enough, but add in her own occupational hazard . . . a mid-life weight gain . . . plus the threat of diabetes and her daughter's severe eating disorder and things couldn't get much worse.
When teenaged Annie winds up in the hospital, Dana Sue finds herself turning to the one man who might be able to bring her daughter back from a very dangerous precipice.
Swallowing her pride, she invites her ex back into both their lives, but the one thing she never counted on was Ronnie's determination to stay forever.
While the whole town of Serenity takes sides, Dana Sue struggles to decide if she's willing to risk her heart a second time with a man who once betrayed her. Will the payoff be more heartache . . . or a little slice of heaven?
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There's nothing like a little serenity...
Maddie Townsend might live in a town called Serenity, but there's been nothing calm or peaceful about her life since her marriage broke up. This stay-at-home mom has no job skills, an out-of-control sixteen-year-old son, a talkative fourteen-year-old who's suddenly gone silent, a six-year-old daughter whose heart is broken, an ex-husband whose younger girlfriend is expecting their baby and two best friends who think she's somehow qualified to help them open a fitness spa for women.
But if Maddie is a tad on edge with all that on her plate, it's nothing compared to the chaos that ensues when she discovers that her son's baseball coach has feelings for her and the whole town disapproves. Maddie's faced a lot of challenges with strength and resolve, but Cal Maddox may be more than she can handle.
Then again, he could just be the one man in all of South Carolina who can help her find serenity.
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In a season of miracles,
love is the greatest gift of all
Sherryl Woods takes you to a chaotic mall on Christmas eve for "Santa Baby," her story in the DASHING THROUGH THE MALL holiday anthology, which also features brand new stories from Holly Jacobs and Darlene Gardner.
When burned-out cop Nick DiAngelo is drafted into playing Santa on the busiest day of the holiday season, the last thing he needs is a missing child and a frantic mom. But in this season of miracles, this chance meeting may be the first step in healing his heart...
It's too late to back out now...
It's not as if Amanda O'Leary set out to fall for the most gorgeous (and unattainable) man this side of South Carolina Low Country. It's just that he organized building a cozy home for her and her children at a time when the future looked darker than blackstrap molasses. Not even her own father, the arrogant and wealthy Big Max, would have done as much for her. But that's a whole other kettle of fish.
Caleb can count on fingers and toes why his attraction to widowed Amanda is plain wrong. How can he objectively counsel this chin-up spitfire without letting his emotions — and imagination — run wild? And now that Big Max has burdened him with not one secret, but two, he knows his priorities should be mending fences between father and daughter — but he can't help trying to build a place for himself in her heart first...
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There's a fine line between desire... and disaster!
Improper Southern belle Maggie Forsythe has never given two figs for what other people think — so why, after being unceremoniously dumped two weeks before her wedding — is she hiding away in her South Carolina Low Country home?
That is, until concerned — albeit scheming — friends arrive and convince her to help them build a house for a needy family and make a difference for once.
But one look at Maggie, and project foreman Josh Parker knows what kind of sweet-tea swilling debutante he's dealing with. Even if she does know her way around a circular saw. Sure, they have enough sparks to ignire a bonfire, but he's corn bread to her caviar. And if there's anything he's learned from growing up broke, it's better to aim low than risk everything and lose.
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When award-winning TV journalist Dinah Davis's career crashes and burns, she retreats to the security of her family's home in Charleston, SC, to recover. She has every intention of turning to an old love — Bobby Beaufort — for solace. But Bobby's black sheep brother Cord has other ideas. He thinks the one-time society girl and smalltown celebrity is way too much of a handful for his brother. And in Cord's arms, Dinah's backup plan pretty much goes up in smoke.
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