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Friends We Keep by Jane GreenFriends We Keep by Jane Green


Thanks to Tara O’Connor of Berkley, I am giving away one print copy of ‘Friends We Keep’ by Jane Green.

Description Friends We Keep by Jane Green


The Friends We Keep is the warm and wise new novel from Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Sunshine Sisters and The Beach House

Evvie, Maggie, and Topher have known each other since university. Their friendship was something they swore would last forever. Now years have passed, the friends have drifted apart, and none of them ever found the lives they wanted – the lives they dreamed of when they were young and everything seemed possible.

Evvie starved herself to become a supermodel but derailed her career by sleeping with a married man.

Maggie married Ben, the boy she fell in love with at university, never imagining the heartbreak his drinking would cause.

Topher became a successful actor but the shame of a childhood secret shut him off from real intimacy.

By their thirtieth reunion, these old friends have lost touch with each other and with the people they dreamed of becoming. Together again, they have a second chance at happiness… until a dark secret is revealed that changes everything.

The Friends We Keep is about how despite disappointments we’ve had or mistakes we’ve made, it’s never too late to find a place to call home.

Praise Friends We Keep by Jane Green


“Love, grief, and forgiveness illuminate this compelling summer read.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Green writes with a clear, unfettered voice, filling this page-turner with plot twists and hinting at the power of forgiveness.”—Publishers Weekly

About Jane GreenFriends We Keep by Jane Green


A former journalist in the UK and a graduate of the International Culinary Center in New York, Jane Green has written many novels (including Jemima JThe Beach HouseFalling, and, most recently, The Sunshine Sisters), most of which have been New York Times bestsellers, and one cookbook, Good Taste. Her novels are published in more than twenty-five languages, and she has over ten million books in print worldwide. She lives with her husband and a small army of children and animals.

Website: https://www.janegreen.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JaneGreen

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My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding by Wendy WaxMy Ex-Best Friend’s Wedding by Wendy Wax

Thanks to Lauren Horvath of Berkley, I am giving away one print copy of ‘My Ex-Best Friend’s Wedding’ by Wendy Wax.

Description My Ex-Best Friend’s Wedding by Wendy Wax


A wedding dress passed down through generations unravels the tangled threads of three women’s lives in a novel of friendship, family, and forgiveness from the USA Today bestselling author of Ten Beach Road.

Prized and stored away for safekeeping, the timeless ivory wedding dress, with its scooped neck and cleverly fitted bodice, sits gently folded in its box, whispering of Happily Ever Afters. To Kendra, Brianna, and Lauren it’s a reminder of what could have been, the promise of a fairy tale, and a friendship torn apart. But as Kendra knows firsthand: it wasn’t the dress’s fault.

Once closer than sisters, Lauren and Bree have grown up and grown apart, allowing broken promises and unfulfilled dreams to destroy their friendship. A successful author, Lauren returns home to the Outer Banks, fianc� in tow, to claim the dress she never thought she’d wear. While Bree, a bookstore owner, grapples with the realities of life after you marry the handsome prince. As the former best friends wrestle with their uncertain futures, they are both certain of one thing: some betrayals can never be forgiven.

Now on the eve of her daughter Lauren’s wedding, Kendra struggles with a secret she’s kept for far too long. And vows to make sure the dress will finally bring Lauren and Bree back together–knowing they’ll need each other to survive the coming storm.

Praise My Ex-Best Friend’s Wedding by Wendy Wax


“My Ex-Best Friend’s Wedding is Wendy Wax’s best book to date. Filled with her trademark witty dialogue and crisp writing, readers will be immersed in a deeply emotional tale of what family really means, and of friendship lost and found. With a gorgeously descriptive setting in Outer Banks, North Carolina, and carefully crafted characters to laugh and cry with, this should be the first book you put in your beach bag this summer.”—Karen White, New York Times bestselling author of Dreams Of Falling

“My Ex-Best Friend’s Wedding plumbs the depths of true friendship, the beauty, the pain, and the vulnerability it demands. Wax has crafted a beautifully wrought story that will touch your heart and make you value those in your own life. A must read!”—Susan Crandall, author of The Myth of Perpetual Summer

About Wendy WaxMy Ex-Best Friend's Wedding by Wendy Wax


Wendy Wax, a former broadcaster, is the author of fifteen novel and two novellas, including Best Beach EverOne Good ThingSunshine BeachA Week at the LakeWhile We Were Watching Downton AbbeyThe House on Mermaid PointOcean Beach, and Ten Beach Road. The mother of two grown sons, she left the suburbs of Atlanta for an in town high-rise where she and her husband are happily downsized.

Website: http://www.authorwendywax.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Wendy_Wax
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorWendyWax

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Dreams of Falling by Karen WhiteDreams of Falling by Karen White

Thanks to Berkley Publishing, I am giving away one print copy of ‘Dreams of Falling’ by Karen White.

Description Dreams of Falling by Karen White


From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night the Lights Went Out comes an exquisite new novel about best friends, family ties and the love that can both strengthen and break those bonds.

It’s been nine years since Larkin fled Georgetown, South Carolina, vowing never to go back. But when she finds out that her mother has disappeared, she knows she has no choice but to return to the place that she both loves and dreads–and to the family and friends who never stopped wishing for her to come home.

Ivy, Larkin’s mother, is discovered in the burned-out wreckage of her family’s ancestral rice plantation, badly injured and unconscious. No one knows why Ivy was there, but as Larkin digs for answers, she uncovers secrets kept for nearly 50 years. Secrets that lead back to the past, to the friendship between three girls on the brink of womanhood who swore that they would be friends forever, but who found that vow tested in heartbreaking ways.

Praise Dreams of Falling by Karen White


“Intricate storytelling across generations and time periods, using eloquent language, makes for deep characterization alongside a brisk-paced plot. Full of family secrets and southern charm, Dreams of Falling serves equal helpings of drama and comfort to fans of Dorothea Benton Frank, Mary Alice Monroe, and Barbara Claypole White.”—Booklist

“Atmospheric and rich, White’s writing is an indulgent pleasure to read…Offering a blend of women’s fiction, romance, mystery and a touch of historical fiction, Dreams of Falling dips in and out of time, subplots and characters’ consciousness with grace and fluidity. It showcases White’s skill at building a cast of emotionally rich characters, as she juggles the fears and desires of five strong-willed women, all at the brink of revelation and disaster. Her keen emotional insights and warm authorial voice invite the reader into her stories the way one might welcome home a long-lost daughter.”—Shelf Awareness

“White’s lovely tale of enduring friendship brings coastal South Carolina to life and examines the redemptive powers of love and loss”—Publishers Weekly

“A multi-generational novel of friendship, second chances, betrayal, and long-held secrets, Dreams of Falling is a poignant piece of Southern fiction, one that will stay with you long after the final chapter.”—Historical Novel Society

About Karen White


Dreams of Falling by Karen White

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Karen White is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including the Tradd Street series, The Night the Lights Went OutFlight PatternsThe Sound of GlassA Long Time Gone, and The Time Between. She is the coauthor of The Forgotten Room and The Glass Ocean with New York Times bestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig.

She grew up in London but now lives with her husband and two children near Atlanta, Georgia.

Website: https://www.karen-white.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarenWhiteWrite
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karenwhiteauthor

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