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DATING, DINING, AND DESPERATION
By: Melody Carlson


Dear Daphne #2
B&H Books
February 2014
On Sale: February 4, 2014
Featuring: Daphne Ballinger
324 pages
ISBN: 1433679310
EAN: 9781433679315
Kindle: B00I9I8X04
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Inspirational Romance

Daphne Ballinger has learned to accept her deceased, eccentric auntโ€™s strange request that she marry in order to inherit her estate, along with taking over her auntโ€™s hometown paperโ€™s advice column.

But knowing and accepting that Godโ€™s will be done becomes harder when a new neighbor, a divorced socialite, learns of Daphneโ€™s predicament and takes on the task of finding her the perfect man, even if it includes speed dating. When God does open Daphneโ€™s heart, it is instead to take in a young girl left parent-less and in the care of her dying grandmother. It may be a temporary arrangement until the girlโ€™s uncle returns from the Marines, but God uses Daphne to speak His heavenly love and protection into the life of the child -- whom Daphne soon discovers has a very handsome and single uncle.

Dear Daphne

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