Who says you can't go home? You just have to want to.
Marigold McKenize O'Malley thought she'd seen the last of
her dull and boring hometown of Cordelia, Missouri when she
packed her bags and headed for the bright lights of Kansas
City. But several years later, as her art design business is
floundering and her love life is going up in flames, Mari is
pulled back home when her sisters call her to come home to
help take care of her mother, who had suffered a heart
attack. Reluctantly, Mari agrees and soon finds that she is
her mother's new "Steppen Fetchit" girl, running errands,
doing the laundry, ruining the garden. So she feels a
certain sense of relief when she runs into Andy Eppelwaite,
an old childhood friend and first-time lover, who now has
his own landscaping business, or so she thinks.
As Mari and Andy renew their acquaintance and friendship,
her parents decide to relocate to their lake cabin for the
summer. When she discovers that Andy will be working nearby
at a summer camp for problem children, Mari assumes that he
is the groundskeeper. To her surprise, Andy is one of the
camp's counselors, and a very well respected one at that.
When one of Mari's nephews is sent to the camp to overcome
personal problems, Mari becomes deeply involved with both
the work at the camp, where she discovers a renewed interest
in not only her art, as well as her beloved friend. Can she
overcome a devastating former affair to find true love with
Andy, or will Mari lose him to past memories and actions
that neither one of them had much control over.
Author Jerri Corgiat closes out her trilogy of the O'Malley
sisters in HOME AT LAST. As the final story that follows
Corgiat's previous books, SING ME HOME, and FOLLOW ME HOME,
she brings the family's saga to a fitting and satisfying end
with the youngest sister Mari's story. Poignant and
heartfelt, the readers will find themselves basking in the
warmth of Southern charm, close-knit family values, and a
sweet, engaging romance that will bring a sigh of satisfaction.
Mari O'Malley had thought she'd shaken the dust of the
Ozarks off her stilettos when she'd headed to the city to
seek fame and fortune. But now she's unemployed, broke,
broken-hearted--and with no reason to resist her sisters'
pleas to return to Cordelia to help their mother after her
heart attack. Her attraction to her childhood chum, former
town troublemaker Andy Eppelwaite may cause her to loosen
her grasp on her big-city dreams. If he can forgive her
darkest secrets.
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