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In a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where divorce is as rampant as kudzu, Mary Bliss McGowan doesn't notice that her own marriage is in trouble until the summer night she finds a note from her husband, telling her he's gone. Stunned and humiliated, a desperate Mary Bliss, left behind with 17-year-old daughter Erin and a mountain of debt, decides to salvage what's left of her life by telling one little bitty lie.

Annajane Hudgens truly believes she is over her ex-husband, Mason Bayless. They've been divorced for four years, she's engaged to a terrific new guy, and she's ready to leave the small town where she and Mason had so much history. She is so over Mason that she has absolutely no problem attending his wedding to the beautiful, intelligent, delightful Celia. But when fate intervenes and the wedding is called to a halt as the bride is literally walking down the aisle, Annajane begins to realize that maybe she's been given a second chance.

Twas the night before Christmas, and Savannah was breezy. But there's trouble afoot—and it's heading toward Weezie. Seems BeBe’s been holding a big secret back that would make Santa’s reindeer stop dead in their tracks. Can these two best friends wriggle out of these twists? Will they do it in time to ensure Christmas Bliss?

Keeley Murdock's wedding to A.J. Jernigan should have been the social event of the season. But when she catches her fiance doing the deed with her maid of honor at the country club rehearsal dinner, all bets are off. And so is the wedding. Keeley pitches the hissy fit of the century, earning herself instant notoriety in the small town of Madison, Georgia.

When newly divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life. The Four Roses, as the farmhouse is called, is a labor of love - but Ivy didn't bargain on just how much labor. The previous family left so much furniture and so much junk that it's a full-time job sorting through all of it. At the top of a closet, Ivy finds an old Santa suit - beautifully made and decades old. In the pocket of a suit she finds a note written in a childish hand.

Southern belle BeBe Loudermilk has lost all her worldly possessions, thanks to a brief but disastrous relationship with the gorgeous Reddy, an "investment counselor" who turns out to be a con man. All that's left is a ramshackle 1950s motel on Tybee Island, an eccentric beach town that calls itself a drinking village with a fishing problem.

In this heartwarming, suspenseful, and hilarious novel, Callahan Garrity and the outrageous band of "girls" in her Atlanta cleaning crew join together during the Christmas rush to prove that her trailer-trash brother didn't kill his even trashier estranged wife.

It's a few days before Christmas, and sometime sleuth/full-time cleaning lady Callahan Garrity has things under control for a change, until her never-do-well brother, Brian, shows up.

In his prime, spry senior Truman Kicklighter had been a first-rate reporter for the Associated Press. But not even the hottest story from his newshound days can rival the recent goings-on at the sleepy Fountain of Youth Residential Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Callahan Garrity is the owner of House Mouse, a cleaning service that tidies up after Atlanta’s elite. She’s also a former cop and a part-time sleuth. She and her coterie of devoted helpers can ransack a house for clues faster than it takes a fingerprint to set. When Callahan Garrity gets caught in a liquor store holdup on the way home from a St. Paddy’s Day party, one of her best friends is shot.

Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Some people come only for the weekends - and it's something they look forward to all week long. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the ferry one Friday afternoon, she is instead served with papers informing her that her island home is being foreclosed. To make matters worse, her husband is nowhere to be found.

It's the week before Christmas, and antiques dealer Weezie Foley is in a frenzy to deck out her shop for the Savannah historical district decorating contest, which she intends to win. Weezie is ready to shoot herself with her glue gun by the time she's done, but the results are stunning. She's certainly one-upped the owners of the trendy shop around the corner, but suddenly things start to go missing from her display and there seems to be an uninvited midnight visitor to her shop.

After 10 years of cleaning up the dirt on Atlanta's streets, Callahan Garrity is trading in her badge for a broom and a staff of house cleaners. But, though the uniform is a little different, Callahan soon finds herself right back in the middle of a mystery when a client's pretty, pious 19-year-old nanny is gone...along with the jewelry, silver, and a few rather sensitive real estate documents. Before she knows it, the meticulous Callahan is up to her elbows in a case involving illicit love triangles, crooked business deals, long-distance scams, and a dead body.

Mary Kay Andrews' audiobook is the story of five people questioning everything they ever thought they knew about life. Five people on a journey that will uncover their secrets and point them on the path to forgiveness. Five people who each need a sea change, and one month in a summer rental that might just give it to them.

Retiree Truman Kicklighter returns in the second installment of a simmering Florida series by one of today's hottest suspense writers. When Truman's twenty-something pal is taken for a ride by a used-car dealer, he has to put the brakes on a scam with a deadly payoff.

Versteck gesucht, Liebe gefunden. Letty und Maya, ihre vierjährige Nichte, müssen nach einem Schicksalsschlag ganz neu anfangen: Ihr altes Leben haben sie zurückgelassen, im sonnigen Florida suchen die beiden nach einem neuen Zuhause. Übergangsweise landen sie in einer kleinen Pension am Strand. Je mehr Letty und Maya sich dort einleben und an die eigenwilligen Stammgäste gewöhnen, desto schwerer fällt es ihnen, wieder zu gehen. Auch Joe, der häufiger in der Pension nach dem Rechten sieht, kann sich sein Leben bald nicht mehr ohne sie vorstellen. Aber Letty muss sich erst ihrer dunklen Vergangenheit stellen.

Gerade noch war das Leben von Lifestyle-Bloggerin Grace perfekt. Bis sie ihren Mann mit einer anderen erwischt und vor lauter Wut sein Luxuscabrio im Pool versenkt. Das Gericht verdonnert sie zum Besuch einer Gruppentherapie. Glücklicherweise sind die anderen vier Teilnehmer genauso entsetzt von ihrer Therapeutin wie Grace, so dass sie beschließen, ihre eigene Gruppensitzung abzuhalten - jeden Mittwochabend in der Strandbar "The Sandbox".

Vom Glück, nach Hause zu kommen: Ein Sommerroman zum Genießen von Bestsellerautorin Mary Kay Andrews. Anfangs ist die investigative Journalistin Conley Hawkins gar nicht begeistert, als es sie nach Florida in ihre kleine Heimatstadt verschlägt. Doch der familieneigenen Zeitung geht es nicht gut. Conley setzt alles daran, sie mit ihrer Schwester zusammen zu retten. Im Strandhaus ihrer Großmutter lernt Conley, dass auch Regionaljournalismus Sensationen bereithält. Und dass aus alten Verletzungen neue Liebe entstehen kann.

Keeley Rae Murdock, eine seriöse 34-jährige Innenarchitektin, will morgen ihren Verlobten heiraten. Doch der vernascht beim Probedurchlauf im Country Club kurzerhand die Trauzeugin. Und das gleich im Saal neben dem Trauzimmer! Keeley verliert die Fassung. Sie bekommt den Tobsuchtsanfall ihres Lebens: Sie verpasst der Trauzeugin einen saftigen Fausthieb ins Gesicht, wirft Gläser an die Wand, ritzt in das Auto ihres Verlobten das Wort Arschloch und wirft dem Pfarrer das Beweismaterial mitten ins Gesicht.

Drei Frauen, zwei Familien und ein Sommer voller Geheimnisse: die perfekte Ferienlektüre - Herzklopfen inklusive...Annajane und Patricia sind beste Freundinnen seit ihrer Kindheit. Nun sind sie zu Gast auf einer Hochzeit - der Hochzeit von Annajanes Exmann Mason und der reizenden Celia. Annajane redet sich ein, dass ihr das überhaupt nichts ausmacht. Schließlich ist sie über Mason hinweg und hat neue Pläne: Gemeinsam mit ihrem neuen Verlobten Shane will sie sich ein Leben weit weg von der beschaulichen Kleinstadt am See aufbauen, in der sie aufgewachsen ist. Doch ihre beste Freundin Patricia kennt Annajane besser.

Wenn das kleine Cottage ihrer Großeltern nicht wäre, würde Drue Campbell den neuen Job in der Anwaltskanzlei ihres Vaters nicht aushalten. Überhaupt fühlt sie sich in ihrem Leben gerade etwas verloren. Das Strandhäuschen mit seinem alten Charme und den vielen schönen Erinnerungen gibt ihr Halt. Dann stößt Drue auf finanzielle Unregelmäßigkeiten bei einem Fall, den die Kanzlei betreut hat, und sie macht sich daran, die Wahrheit herausfinden. Viel Zeit für die Liebe bleibt ihr bei all der Aufregung nicht. Aber auch wer nicht sucht, der findet.