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In his prime, spry senior Truman Kicklighter had been a first-rate reporter for the Associated Press. But not even the hottest story from his newshound days can rival the recent goings-on at the sleepy Fountain of Youth Residential Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Callahan Garrity is the owner of House Mouse, a cleaning service that tidies up after Atlanta’s elite. She’s also a former cop and a part-time sleuth. She and her coterie of devoted helpers can ransack a house for clues faster than it takes a fingerprint to set. When Callahan Garrity gets caught in a liquor store holdup on the way home from a St. Paddy’s Day party, one of her best friends is shot.

A Savannah florist is about to score the wedding of a lifetime—one that will solidify her career as the go-to-girl for society nuptials. Ironically, Cara Kryzik doesn't believe in love, even though she creates beautiful flower arrangements to celebrate them. But when the bride goes missing and the wedding is in jeopardy, Cara must find the bride and figure out what she believes in. Maybe love really does exist outside of fairy tales after all.

Chef extraordinaire Gina Foxton doesn't expect anything to be handed to her on a platter. After years of hard work, the former runner-up Miss Teen Vidalia Onion is now the host of her own local Georgia public television show called Fresh Start, and she's dating the show's producer. But when her show gets canceled - and she catches her boyfriend in flagrante delicto with the boss' wife - Gina realizes that she's meant for bigger and better things. Namely, a gig on national television.

As a movie location scout, picture-perfect is the name of the game. But her last project literally went up in flames, and her career is on the verge of flaming out. Greer has been given one more chance, if she can find the perfect undiscovered beach hideaway for a big-budget movie. She zeroes in on a sleepy Florida panhandle town called Cypress Key. There's one motel, a marina, a long stretch of pristine beach and an old fishing pier with a community casino-which will be perfect for the film's explosive climax.

In this heartwarming, suspenseful, and hilarious novel, Callahan Garrity and the outrageous band of "girls" in her Atlanta cleaning crew join together during the Christmas rush to prove that her trailer-trash brother didn't kill his even trashier estranged wife.

It's a few days before Christmas, and sometime sleuth/full-time cleaning lady Callahan Garrity has things under control for a change, until her never-do-well brother, Brian, shows up.

Twas the night before Christmas, and Savannah was breezy. But there's trouble afoot—and it's heading toward Weezie. Seems BeBe’s been holding a big secret back that would make Santa’s reindeer stop dead in their tracks. Can these two best friends wriggle out of these twists? Will they do it in time to ensure Christmas Bliss?

In a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where divorce is as rampant as kudzu, Mary Bliss McGowan doesn't notice that her own marriage is in trouble until the summer night she finds a note from her husband, telling her he's gone. Stunned and humiliated, a desperate Mary Bliss, left behind with 17-year-old daughter Erin and a mountain of debt, decides to salvage what's left of her life by telling one little bitty lie.

After she discovers her sister Tanya dead on the floor of her fashionable New York City townhouse, Letty Carnahan is certain she knows who did it: Tanya’s ex; sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield. Even in the grip of grief and panic Letty heeds her late sister’s warnings: “If anything bad happens to me - it’s Evan. Promise me you’ll take Maya and run. Promise me.” So Letty grabs her sister’s Mercedes and hits the road....

After 10 years of cleaning up the dirt on Atlanta's streets, Callahan Garrity is trading in her badge for a broom and a staff of house cleaners. But, though the uniform is a little different, Callahan soon finds herself right back in the middle of a mystery when a client's pretty, pious 19-year-old nanny is gone...along with the jewelry, silver, and a few rather sensitive real estate documents. Before she knows it, the meticulous Callahan is up to her elbows in a case involving illicit love triangles, crooked business deals, long-distance scams, and a dead body.

Keeley Murdock's wedding to A.J. Jernigan should have been the social event of the season. But when she catches her fiance doing the deed with her maid of honor at the country club rehearsal dinner, all bets are off. And so is the wedding. Keeley pitches the hissy fit of the century, earning herself instant notoriety in the small town of Madison, Georgia.

Eloise Foley, known to her friends as Weezie, has been through the divorce from hell. Her ex-husband Tal (aka Talmadge Evans III) was awarded their house in Savannah's historic district, the house that Weezie had spent years painstakingly restoring to its original splendor. Weezie was awarded the two-bedroom carriage house on the same property. Each was sure the other would sell.

When newly divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life. The Four Roses, as the farmhouse is called, is a labor of love - but Ivy didn't bargain on just how much labor. The previous family left so much furniture and so much junk that it's a full-time job sorting through all of it. At the top of a closet, Ivy finds an old Santa suit - beautifully made and decades old. In the pocket of a suit she finds a note written in a childish hand.

It's the week before Christmas, and antiques dealer Weezie Foley is in a frenzy to deck out her shop for the Savannah historical district decorating contest, which she intends to win. Weezie is ready to shoot herself with her glue gun by the time she's done, but the results are stunning. She's certainly one-upped the owners of the trendy shop around the corner, but suddenly things start to go missing from her display and there seems to be an uninvited midnight visitor to her shop.

We're four bestselling novelists and friends whose common love of reading, writing, and independent bookstores bound us together. Now we want to share and celebrate stories—of the books we’ve written, the ones we’re reading now, and the art of writing—with each other and the guest authors we invite to join us. If you love books and are curious about the writing world, you’re in the right place.

Keeley Rae Murdock, eine seriöse 34-jährige Innenarchitektin, will morgen ihren Verlobten heiraten. Doch der vernascht beim Probedurchlauf im Country Club kurzerhand die Trauzeugin. Und das gleich im Saal neben dem Trauzimmer! Keeley verliert die Fassung. Sie bekommt den Tobsuchtsanfall ihres Lebens: Sie verpasst der Trauzeugin einen saftigen Fausthieb ins Gesicht, wirft Gläser an die Wand, ritzt in das Auto ihres Verlobten das Wort Arschloch und wirft dem Pfarrer das Beweismaterial mitten ins Gesicht.

Gerade noch war das Leben von Lifestyle-Bloggerin Grace perfekt. Bis sie ihren Mann mit einer anderen erwischt und vor lauter Wut sein Luxuscabrio im Pool versenkt. Das Gericht verdonnert sie zum Besuch einer Gruppentherapie. Glücklicherweise sind die anderen vier Teilnehmer genauso entsetzt von ihrer Therapeutin wie Grace, so dass sie beschließen, ihre eigene Gruppensitzung abzuhalten - jeden Mittwochabend in der Strandbar "The Sandbox".

Drei Frauen, zwei Familien und ein Sommer voller Geheimnisse: die perfekte Ferienlektüre - Herzklopfen inklusive... Annajane und Patricia sind beste Freundinnen seit ihrer Kindheit. Nun sind sie zu Gast auf einer Hochzeit - der Hochzeit von Annajanes Exmann Mason und der reizenden Celia. Annajane redet sich ein, dass ihr das überhaupt nichts ausmacht. Schließlich ist sie über Mason hinweg und hat neue Pläne: Gemeinsam mit ihrem neuen Verlobten Shane will sie sich ein Leben weit weg von der beschaulichen Kleinstadt am See aufbauen, in der sie aufgewachsen ist.

Cara versucht Fuß auf dem Heiratsmarkt zu fassen. Natürlich nur beruflich. Als Floristin entwirft sie romantische Blumenarrangements für den großen Tag. Privat glaubt Cara schon lange nicht mehr an die Liebe und mit ihrem Ehemann ist es aus. In ihrem Leben läuft es wirklich alles andere als rund: Ihr Assistent will lieber für die Konkurrenz arbeiten, ihr strenger Vater fordert sein Geld zurück und ein Hundedieb hat es auf ihren Vierbeiner abgesehen. Warum nur sieht der Kerl so unverschämt gut aus?

Neue Liebe zwischen alten Mauern. Hattie Kavanaugh hätte es besser wissen müssen: Als professionelle Bauunternehmerin hätte sie die Finger von dem Haus in Savannah lassen sollen, in das sie gerade ihre gesamten Ersparnisse gesteckt hat. Als unüberwindbare bauliche Probleme auftauchen, muss sie zugeben, dass sie dringend Geld braucht. Mo Lopez kann ihr genau das bieten, denn er ist TV-Produzent und auf der Suche nach einer neuen Show. Als er die junge Frau vor der Bruchbude sieht, hat er die Idee: Eine Show, in der alte Häuser liebevoll restauriert werden sollen.