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


Bones of My Brother
J Frank Dunkin

Southern literary fiction

Two Harbors Press
September 2013
On Sale: September 15, 2013
Featuring: Old Jesse; Price Hobson; John Hobson
423 pages
ISBN: 1626522758
EAN: 9781626522756
Hardcover
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From Alabama at mid–century, there'd been John and his Evelyn—now from Minnesota at century's end, Price and his Joy—two couples whose struggles ran as parallel as rails on a track. Had John Hobson's smile been erased by a long ago war, or had he suffered a more defining chapter in his life? And what of his son, Price, the small–town boy who stamped his mark upon a corporate world that would ultimately crumble about him?

For one man, there'd been the lure of "Music City" versus the love of his treasured Evie. For the other, there'd been the heady rush of success followed by a precipitous fall from grace. To be sure, a shroud of guilt had marked both men, but when Price learns of his late father's ambition, his obsession with the past places his marriage in dire jeopardy.

John Hobson was gone now, interred ". . . in nested containers of earth, box and body," but the secret of his lifelong angst lay not beneath the hot soil of Gethsemane's cemetery, but beneath God's tree in a tiny glade one county over. In the end, a son's desire to bring his father's dream to fruition triggers deadly consequences, initiating a journey along a more imperative path.

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Re: Bones of My Brother

Love this writing style. J. Frank Dunkin has written some wonderful short
stories that I have read and enjoyed so I am anxious to get my hands on
his first novel. September can't get here soon enough!
(Barbara Broach 1:12pm July 31, 2013)

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