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St. Martin's Press
February 2013
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Featuring: Isabelle McAkkuster; Dorrie Curtis; Robert Prewitt
352 pages
ISBN: 1250014522
EAN: 9781250014528
Kindle: B008RVAP2C
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask
her hairdresser Dorrie
Curtis. It's a big one. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black
single mom in her thirties, to
drop everything to drive her from her home in Arlington,
Texas, to a funeral in
Cincinnati. With no clear explanation why. Tomorrow. Dorrie, fleeing problems of her own and curious whether she
can unlock the
secrets of Isabelle's guarded past, scarcely hesitates
before agreeing, not knowing
it will be a journey that changes both their lives. Over the years, Dorrie and Isabelle have developed more than
just a business
relationship. They are friends. But Dorrie, fretting over
the new man in her life
and her teenage son’s irresponsible choices, still wonders
why Isabelle chose her. Isabelle confesses that, as a willful teen in 1930s
Kentucky, she fell deeply in love
with Robert Prewitt, a would-be doctor and the black son of
her family's
housekeeper—in a town where blacks weren’t allowed after
dark. The tale of
their forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences
makes it clear Dorrie and
Isabelle are headed for a gathering of the utmost importance
and that the history
of Isabelle's first and greatest love just might help Dorrie
find her own way.
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