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Nowhere But Home

Liza Palmer · 360 pages

"After Queenie Wake is dismissed from her restaurant job, she returns to North Star to cook meals for death row inmates. Hopeful that the bad memories of her late mother and promiscuous sister (now the mother of the captain of the high school football team) have been forgotten by the locals, Queenie discovers that some people can't be forgotten--heartbreaker Everett Coburn--her old high-school swe

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Falling Home

Karen White · 412 pages

You Know That Saying About How Sometimes You're The Windshield And Sometimes You're The Bug?It's true. Take me, for example. I shook the Georgia dust from my feet fifteen years ago, vowing never to leave Manhattan. I traded sweet tea for Chardonnay, fried chicken for nouvelle cuisine, lazy days on my aunt's front porch for ad campaigns and board meetings, and the guy who broke my heart for my hand

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Midnight Secrets

Ella Grace · 440 pages

"On a hot southern night, with a storm on the horizon, a family is shattered. Three beautiful daughters--Savannah, Samantha, and Sabrina Wilde--go on with their lives, each significantly changed, as they bear the memory of the murder-suicide that killed their parents. For years, they have stayed away from Midnight, Alabama. Until Midnight calls them home. Savannah is the first one back, when a gru

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Blue Bayou

JoAnn Ross · 420 pages

The town bad boy returns home to find peace, and to protect a dream, but finds much more. After a loveless marriage, a young woman and her son return home to rebuild bridges.

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Sweet Tea and Secrets

Nancy Naigle · 368 pages

"When Jill Clemmons returns to Adams Grove, Virginia, to settle her grandmother's estate, she must face Garrett Malloy, the man who broke her heart years ago. When a string of break-ins threatens Jill's safety, she and Garrett must join forces to unearth her grandmother's secrets"--

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Slightly South of Simple

Kristy Woodson Harvey · 408 pages

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The wedding

Nicholas Sparks · 258 pages

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Once and Again

Lauren Dane

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When the Soul Mends

Cindy Woodsmall

Returning to the home she fled in disgrace, will Hannah find healing for the wounds of the past?After receiving a desperate and confusing call from her sister, Hannah Lapp reluctantly returns to the Old Order Amish community of her Pennsylvania childhood. Having fled in disgrace more than two years earlier, she finally has settled into a satisfying role in the Englischer world. She also has found

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Baby, Come Home

Stephanie Bond · 330 pages

Rebuilding their tornado-ravaged hometown, the Armstrong brothers place an ad in a northern newspaper seeking single women and when Amy Bradwell, a civil engineer and Kendell Armstrong's ex-fiancée, arrives, intending to keep her relationship to the Armstrongs strictly professional, Kendell makes plans to win her back.

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The Sweetest Thing

Jill Shalvis · 370 pages

Two Men Are One Too Many… Tara has a thousand good reasons not to return to the little coastal town of Lucky Harbor, Washington. Yet with her life doing a major crash-and-burn, anywhere away from her unfulfilled dreams and sexy ex-husband will do. As Tara helps her two sisters get their newly renovated inn up and running, she finally has a chance to get things under control and come up with a n

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Hope Burns

Jaci Burton · 304 pages

Molly Burnett dreads returning to her hometown of Hope for her sister's wedding, especially knowing she'll have to endure a weekend with the one man she never wants to see again. It's only a couple of days, so Molly will try to forget her painful past with high school sweetheart Carter Richards. Because despite the bitter memories, she still can't forget what they once meant to each other. But

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Garden Spells

Sarah Addison Allen · 290 pages

A successful caterer in Bascomb, North Carolina, Claire has always remained tied to the legacy of the Waverley family, until her peaceful life is transformed by Tyler Hughes, an art teacher and new next-door neighbor, and by the return of her prodigal sister, Sydney.

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The Thorn

Beverly Lewis · 346 pages

Rose's older sister, Hen, knows more than she should about falling for the wrong man. Unable to abandon her Amish ways, Hen is soon separated from her very modern husband. Mattie, their young daughter, must visit her father regularly, but Hen demands she wear Amish attire--and speak Pennsylvania Dutch, despite her husband's wishes. Will Hen be able to reestablish her place among the People she aba

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Pulling Home

Mary Campisi · 270 pages

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The Mailbox

Marybeth Mayhew Whalen · 464 pages

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Surrender to Sultry

Macy Beckett · 311 pages

Smalltown bad boy Colton Bea ruined his chance for happiness when he seduced the preacher's daughter, Leah McMahon. Leah fled their home of Sultry Springs, Tex., leaving no trace. After a decade of womanizing, Colt has reformed and is the sheriff of Sultry Springs, and the last thing he expects is to pull over Leah for speeding. She's returned to take care of her ailing father, and Colt has the ch

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This Time Around

Ellie Grace · 219 pages

Nora Montgomery left home and heartbreak behind in South Carolina when she moved to New York City after her high school graduation. Now, four years later, she returns home and is forced to confront the past she left behind and the reckless boy who broke her heart.

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Crazy on You

Rachel Gibson · 121 pages

Return to Lovett, Texas, the setting of Daisy's Back in Town, in this smart and sexy new story from Rachel Gibson, the New York Times bestselling author of Rescue Me and the Seattle Chinooks books. Lily Darlington's been called crazy in her day-and, yeah, driving her car into her ex-husband's living room probably wasn't the smartest move ever made-but the louse deserved it. Now Lily is happily

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Tate

Linda Lael Miller · 364 pages

Fast track up the political ladder, fast cars, fast women—that's Garrett McKettrick. Make that was. A scandal has brought him home to Blue River, Texas, a place where a man can slow down, take stock and plan his next move. Which doesn't include staying at the family ranch with his brothers. A city boy, Garrett doesn't think he has the land in his blood.But Blue River has other attractions, like hi

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Lavender Morning

Jude Deveraux · 375 pages

When Miss Edi passes away, she leaves Jocelyn Minton all her worldly possessions, including an eighteenth-century house and a letter with clues to a mystery that began in 1941. In an attempt to understand the legacy that has been left to her, Jocelyn digs into Miss Edi's mystery and soon discovers some shocking surprises about her family's history and a man with his own mysterious past.

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His One and Only: 50 Loving States, Alabama

Theodora Taylor · 197 pages

Fifteen years ago, Josie Witherspoon vowed to leave Alabama and never again think of Beau Prescott, the rich high school quarterback who broke her heart. But now after a failed marriage, she is back in Alabama working as a housekeep for Beau Prescott who has suffered a life-altering accident. She planned to just do her job and collect a paycheck, but her resolve falters when Beau makes her a rathe

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Blindsighted

Karin Slaughter · 393 pages

A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear.Sara's ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation -- a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another lo

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Unspoken

Lisa Jackson · 400 pages

WHEN SECRETS ARE REVEALED Shelby Cole thought she'd put Bad Luck behind her. Bad Luck, Texas, that is. She'd left her hometown ten years ago, her world shattered and her illegitimate baby dead. Now she's receiving anonymous letters claiming that her daughter is alive. But going home means demanding answers that her father, Judge Jerome Cole, won't be happy to give--and facing Nevada Smith, the m

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