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Sunshine, secrets, and swoon-worthy stories—June's featured reads are your perfect summer escape.

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He doesn�t need a woman in his life; she knows he can�t live without her.


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A promise rekindled. A secret revealed. A second chance at the family they never had.


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A cowboy with a second chance. A waitress with a hidden gift. And a small town where love paints a brand-new beginning.


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She�s racing for a prize. He�s dodging romance. Together, they might just cross the finish line to love.


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She steals from the mob for justice. He�s the FBI agent who could take her down�or fall for her instead.


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He�s her only protection. She�s carrying his child. Together, they must outwit a killer before time runs out.


The Summer Country by Lauren Willig

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Also by Lauren Willig:

The Girl from Greenwich Street, March 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
The Author's Guide to Murder, November 2024
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Two Wars and a Wedding, March 2024
Paperback / e-Book
The Lost Summers of Newport, May 2023
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Two Wars and a Wedding, April 2023
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
The Lost Summers of Newport, May 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Band of Sisters, March 2022
Paperback / e-Book
Band of Sisters, March 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Summer Country, June 2020
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
All the Ways We Said Goodbye, January 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
The Summer Country, June 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
The English Wife, March 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Glass Ocean, September 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The English Wife, January 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Other Daughter, July 2016
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Forgotten Room, January 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
The Lure of the Moonflower, August 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The Other Daughter, August 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
That Summer, May 2015
Paperback / e-Book
That Summer, June 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
The Ashford Affair, April 2014
Paperback / e-Book
The Passion Of The Purple Plumeria, August 2013
Paperback / e-Book
The Ashford Affair, April 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Garden Intrigue, January 2013
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Garden Intrigue, February 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
The Orchid Affair, January 2012
Paperback / e-Book
The Mischief Of The Mistletoe, November 2011
Trade Size / e-Book
Jane Austen Made Me Do It, October 2011
Trade Size / e-Book
The Orchid Affair, January 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
The Betrayal Of The Blood Lily, January 2011
Paperback
The Mischief of Mistletoe, November 2010
Hardcover / e-Book
The Secret History Of The Pink Carnation, October 2010
Paperback (reprint)
The Temptation Of The Night Jasmine, January 2010
Paperback (reprint)
The Betrayal Of The Blood Lily, January 2010
Hardcover / e-Book
The Temptation Of The Night Jasmine, February 2009
Hardcover / e-Book
The Seduction Of The Crimson Rose, January 2009
Paperback (reprint)
The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, February 2008
Hardcover / e-Book
The Deception of the Emerald Ring, November 2006
Hardcover / e-Book
The Masque of the Black Tulip, November 2006
Paperback / e-Book
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, February 2005
Hardcover

The Summer Country
Lauren Willig

William Morrow Paperbacks
June 2020
On Sale: June 9, 2020
496 pages
ISBN: 0062839039
EAN: 9780062839039
Kindle: B07CRJLKPT
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Hardcover (June 2019)

Women's Fiction Historical

A brilliant, multigenerational saga in the tradition of The Thorn Birds and North and SouthNew York Times bestselling historical novelist Lauren Willig delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet—a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados.

Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan-- merely a vicar’s daughter, and a reform-minded vicar’s daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family’s lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day.  But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados—a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned. 

When Emily accompanies her cousin and his new wife to Barbados, she finds Peverills a burnt-out shell, reduced to ruins in 1816, when a rising of enslaved people sent the island up in flames. Rumors swirl around the derelict plantation; people whisper of ghosts.

Why would her practical-minded grandfather leave her a property in ruins?  Why are the neighboring plantation owners, the Davenants, so eager to acquire Peverills? The answer lies in the past— a tangled history of lies, greed, clandestine love, heartbreaking betrayal, and a bold bid for freedom.

THE SUMMER COUNTRY will beguile readers with its rendering of families, heartbreak, and the endurance of hope against all odds. 

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