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Join five women connected by friendship and the road that runs between their cottages in a Florida development called Happiness Key. Tracy Deloche finally gets a romantic evening with Marsh Egan, but dinner goes cold when she spots her ex-husband. CJ is supposed to be in prison and out of her... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Tracy Katherine Deloche: (35) landlord of Happiness Key after she divorced her husband, CJ Craimer, during his trial and eventual stay in prison, works at the rec center as a recreational supervisor
- CJ Craimer: Tracy's ex-husband, has gotten out of jail despite his schemes, and has return to Happiness Key
- Marsh Egan: Tracy's love interest
- Bay Egan: (9) Marsh's son who attends the rec center
- Sylvia Egan: Marsh's ex-wife who has returned to Marsh after being fired from her lawyer firm in Manhattan
- Denise Deloche: Tracy's mother, estranged after the crisis with CJ Craimer
- Wanda Gray: (57) resident of Happiness Key, has two kids and a husband, Ken, makes delicious pies and starts to open Wanda's Wonderful Pies
- Ken Gray: Wanda's husband, cop
- Chase: Wanda's dog, ex-race track
- Janya Kapur: (25) Indian, muralist, resident of Happiness Key, desires to have a child
- Rishi Kapur: Indian-American, Janya's husband, too busy to be involved in the child-making process, software-engineer
- Inika Desai: Janya's mother, nags her for grandchildren
- Yash Desai: Janya's younger brother
- Dana Turner: Single mom of Lizzie, becomes a resident of Happiness Key, but remains at arm's length
- Lizzie Turner: Dana's daughter
- Alice Brooks: Older resident of Happiness Key, stilted talker
- Olivia: (11) Alice's granddaughter after her mother drowned and her father ended up in jail
- Sherrie: Tracy's college friend, calls when CJ gets out of jail on the west coast
- Rena and Gaylord Stutz: New owner's of the Dancing Shrimp, changing it to a tapas bar and fire Wanda for being too old
- Freida Mertz: Owner of Sunshine Bakery, tries to steal Wanda's recipes and starts a pie war with her
- Herb Krause: Previous tenant of Dana's cottage in Happiness Key, dead
- Edward Statler: CEO of Creative Investment and Development, CJ is staying at his guest house
- Pete Knight: Helps as a handyman for Tracy's improvements on Happiness Key
- Woody: Directer at the rec center
- Gladys Woodley: Receptionist at the rec center, overweight
- Miriam: Swim instructor at the rec center
- Al: Custodian at the rec center, Russian
- Henrietta Claiborne: A rich elderly lady who donates to the rec center named after her
- Maribal Sessions: Realtor of Sessions Realtors
- Mr. Moustache: aka. Roger Goldworthy, a member of the shuffleboard team who gets Tracy to join the weight-loss competition
- Kitty Wallace: Rec center's weight-loss guru for the weight-loss competition
- Carol Kelly: A single mother stalked by her husband, Ray Strickland, in Fresno, California, both disappeared at the same time, her with her daughter Sarah
- Ray Strickland: A man who stalked Carol Kelly, both disappeared at the same time
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- Greta Greenwald
- Isabel Carlsen
- Nanette
- Adam
- Maribel
- Jack
- Frieda Mertz
- Dr. Peterson
- Roy
Setting & Locations edit
- Palmetto Grove Key: Where the development Happiness Key is located
- Happiness Key: Where Tracy Deloche, Janya Kapur, Wanda Gray, Alice Brook, and Dana Turner live
- Dancing Shrimp: A local restaurant that changed ownership that Wanda Gray and Dana Turner worked
- Little Palmetto Bay: Where Dana drops ashes
- Driftwood Inn: Where Dana initially stays until she moves to Happiness Key
- Sunshine Bakery: A competing bakery to Wanda's
- Skeeter's: A dive Tracy and Marsh have a bad date at
- Henrietta Claiborne Recreation Center: Where Tracy work's as recreational supervisor
- Wanda's Wonderful Pies: The bakery that Wanda opens to sell pies, used to be a luncheonette
- Florida
- Victorville
- Manhattan
- India
- Fresno
- North Dakota
- Georgia
- New Mexico
- Miami
First Sentence edit
She wondered how everything had come to this.
Table of Contents edit
1. Prologue
2. Chapter One
3. Chapter Two
4. Chapter Three
5. Chapter Four
6. Chapter Five
7. Chapter Six
8. Chapter Seven
9. Chapter Eight
10. Chapter Nine
11. Chapter Ten
12. Chapter Eleven
13. Chapter Twelve
14. Chapter Thirteen
15. Chapter Fourteen
16. Chapter Fifteen
17. Chapter Sixteen
18. Chapter Seventeen
19. Chapter Eighteen
20. Chapter Nineteen
21. Chapter Twenty
22. Chapter Twenty-One
23. Chapter Twenty-Two
24. Chapter Twenty-Three
25. Chapter Twenty-Four
26. Chapter Twenty-Five
27. Chapter Twenty-Six
28. Chapter Twenty-Seven
29. Chapter Twenty-Eight
30. Chapter Twenty-Nine
31. Chapter Thirty
32. Chapter Thirty-One
33. Chapter Thirty-Two
34. Epilogue
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 3 in Happiness Key. (standard series)
Preceded by Happiness Key, and followed by Sunset Bridge.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Emilie Richards (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harlequin - Mira
Country: Canada
Publication Date: June 2010
ISBN: 0778327701
Page Count: Add the page count.
Publisher: Harlequin - Mira
Country: Canada
Publication Date: June 2010
ISBN: 0778327701
Page Count: Add the page count.
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- Dewey: 813
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