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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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He’s stubborn. She’s tougher. His kid? Already picked the bride.


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A small-town second chance wrapped in danger, desire, and Sharon Sala heart.


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She came home to save the ranch… and found the cowboy she never forgot.


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From reality TV heartbreak to real-life reinvention.


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A missing twin. A deadly cartel. One K-9 team caught in the crossfire.


The Language of Kin by Lynne Hugo

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Also by Lynne Hugo:

Under an Indiana Sky, October 2026
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The Language of Kin, July 2023
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The Book of CarolSue, September 2020
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The Testament of Harold's Wife, October 2018
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Remember My Beauties, February 2016
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Last Rights, June 2009
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Graceland, October 2006
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The Unspoken Years, May 2006
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THE LANGUAGE OF KIN
By: Lynne Hugo

A Novel

Blank Slate Press
July 2023
On Sale: July 11, 2023
Featuring: Kate McKinsey; Marco Lopez
ISBN: 1943075778
EAN: 9781943075775
Kindle: B0C28QG8BB
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Women's Fiction | Literature and Fiction Literary

Zookeepers Kate McKinsey and Marco Lopez are torn between their profound professional disagreements and their growing attraction. When an orphaned chimpanzee, traumatized by experiments in a medical lab arrives at the zoo, they are forced to work together to help her acclimate. Strong differences of opinion cause tempers to flare and resentments to grow.

But when they discover that they're each sole caregivers for their mothers—one who has been deaf her entire life and the other who's lost her ability to process words—Kate and Marc begin to see each other in a new, more compassionate light. Struggling to avoid their differences and keep work and private life separate, they get more deeply involved as Marc helps Kate move her mother to nursing care and begins teaching her and her mother American Sign Language.

As disaster strikes the zoo and one life-threatening crisis spirals into another, old animosities surface and anger boils over, burning a painful path to decisions that threaten to shatter their relationship. With their futures on the line, can they risk reaching across the divide to save the ones they love—and themselves?

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