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The Ladies of Garrison Gardens: A Novel

Charles Valley’s legendary dowagers, the three Miss Margarets, have lost one of their own: Peggy Garrison, who married into a huge fortune but was constantly overshadowed by the legacy her husband’s first wife, the great Myrtis Garrison. When Peggy’s will is read, the news of who will take over the Garrison fortune shakes the town to its core. To everyone’s shock, Peggy has left all of the Garrison holdings–the... (more)

The Sweet Magnolias: Book 1

Stealing Home (Sweet Magnolias Trilogy)

by Sherryl Woods

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... (more)

The Lilith Summer

by Hadley Irwin

Wanting to earn a ten speed bicycle, 12-year old Ellen reluctantly agrees to spend a summer as a companion to 77-year-old Lilith. A powerful friendship grows between these two intriguing characters, and both gain a deeper understanding of old age, loneliness, insecurity, and death. "The story is warm and the writing exemplary."- The New York Times Book Review "A well-written, sympathetic but not... (more)

Emotional Geology

by Linda Gillard

Rose Leonard is on the run from her life. Taking refuge in a remote island community, she cocoons herself in work, silence and solitude in a house by the sea. But she is haunted by her past, by memories and desires she'd hoped were long dead. Rose must decide whether she has in fact chosen a new life or just a different kind of death. Life and love are offered by new friends, her lonely daughter, and most of all... (more)

Not Even If You Begged

by Francis Ray

Widow Traci Evans happily sits in on meetings with the lovely ladies of the Invincible Sisterhood solely because they reached out to her first. A loner, Traci feels for the first time she belongs. All of the official members are sweet older women who have lost the love of their lives, their husbands. Unknown to them, Traci is more angry than she is grief-stricken because her husband died in the midst of... (more)

A Valley to Die For (Something to Die for Series, #1) (Nehring, Radine Trees, Something to Die for Series,)

A Valley to Die For (Something to Die for Series, #1) (Nehring, Radine Trees, Something to Die for Series,)

by Radine Trees Nehring

New widow Carrie Culpeper McCrite moves to the Ozarks to prove that she's a capable woman who can take care of herself. There she bands together with her neighbors to fight a stone quarry that threatens to turn part of their beloved valley into heaps of gravel. When one of her friends is murdered, Carrie feels compelled to uncover and destroy the mystery and darkness swirling in the valley.