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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 Light in Summer by Mary McNear

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Also by Mary McNear:

The Light in Summer, June 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Secrets We Carried, October 2018
Paperback / e-Book
The Secrets We Carried, October 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Up at Butternut Lake, June 2017
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Light in Summer, June 2017
Paperback / e-Book
The Space Between Sisters, June 2016
Paperback
Moonlight on Butternut Lake, May 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Butternut Summer, August 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Up at Butternut Lake, April 2014
Paperback / e-Book

THE LIGHT IN SUMMER
By: Mary McNear

Butternut Lake
William Morrow
June 2017
On Sale: June 20, 2017
384 pages
ISBN: 0062399373
EAN: 9780062399373
Kindle: B01LZUC3KR
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Mass Market Paperback (June 2020)

Women's Fiction

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Mary McNear brings you home to Butternut Lake and a novel filled with irresistible characters who you will want to call your friends.

It’s summertime on Butternut Lake, where the heat of noon is soothed by the cool breezes of the evening, where the pace grows slower, and sometimes, just sometimes, the summer light makes everything clearer...

For the lovely Billy Harper, Butternut Lake is the place she feels most at home, even though lately she feels the only one listening to her is Murphy...her faithful Labrador Retriever. Her teenage son, Luke, has gone from precious to precocious practically overnight. Her friends are wrapped up in their own lives, and Luke’s father, Wesley, disappeared before his son was even born. No wonder she prefers to spend time with a good book, especially ones where everything ends in perfection.

But Billy is about to learn that anything is possible during the heady days of summer. Coming to terms with her pastβ€”the death of her father, the arrival of Cal Cooper, a complicated man with a definite interest in Billy, even the return of Wesley, will force her to have a little bit of faith in herself and others...and realize that happiness doesn’t always mean perfection.

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Butternut Lake

Up at Butternut Lake
UP AT BUTTERNUT LAKE
#1.0 β€’ April 2014
Butternut Summer
BUTTERNUT SUMMER
#2.0 β€’ August 2014
Moonlight on Butternut Lake
MOONLIGHT ON BUTTERNUT LAKE
#3.0 β€’ May 2015
The Light in Summer
THE LIGHT IN SUMMER
#5.0 β€’ June 2017

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