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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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Ladies Of The Lake by Haywood Smith

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Wedding Belles, September 2008
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The Red Hat Club Rides Again, March 2005
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Highland Princess, July 2001
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Secrets in Satin, April 1997
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Shadows in Velvet, July 1996
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LADIES OF THE LAKE
By: Haywood Smith

St. Martin's Press
September 2009
On Sale: September 1, 2009
384 pages
ISBN: 031231695X
EAN: 9780312316952
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction

Sisters Dahlia, Iris, Violet, and Roseβ€”all with grown children of their ownβ€”have a complicated relationship, so when their grand - mother’s will requires them to spend the whole summerβ€”without friends or familyβ€”β€œcamping in” at her run-down lodge on re mote Lake Clare in order to inherit the valuable land, old rivalries and new understanding emerge, with plenty of laughs along the way. Desperate to save her Buckhead home from foreclosure after being left in the lurch, recent divorcee Dahlia must complete the summer and sell her share immediately. Practical, even-tempered Violet will be no problem, but Iris has been Dahlia’s nemesis since she learned to say, β€œno” to her big sister. And super-sweet, quirky Garage Sale Queen Rose is so β€œgreen” she’d test the patience of a saint. As tempers flare and old secrets are revealed, four grown women discover that the past is never truly buried.

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