Moving from naughty seductions in Regency England to a childhood sweetheart reunion, we offer Susan Crandall’s THE ROAD HOME. Karen Robards calls Susan Crandall “an up-and-coming star” and she couldn’t be more right. Desperate to make a new start, Lily Holt reluctantly moves back home to Indiana with her teenaged son. But they’ve barely unpacked their bags when he gets into trouble again. Hoping that a job at the local marina will straighten him out, Lily is shocked to learn his boss is Clay Winters, the man who broke her heart fourteen years ago. Common sense begs her to stay away, but she simply can’t resist the broad-shouldered man who can still make her feel like no one else can. Her body aches for him, as it did all those years ago. But as explosive secrets come to light, will he break her heart a second time or help her heal it?
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Karen Kosztolnyik, Senior Editor
P.S. Valentine’s Day is coming up so celebrate it with a handful of chocolates and these two Warner Forever titles, guaranteed to make your heart skip a beat. Karen Rose pens a bone-chilling romantic suspense about a serial killer preying on teenaged girls and the widowed cop and his teenaged son’s schoolteacher who vow to bring him to justice in HAVE YOU SEEN HER?; and Kimberly Raye delivers the funny and sexy story of a woman who trades lessons in the art of sexual fulfillment for a handsome NASCAR driver’s insight into the male mind in KISS ME ONCE, KISS ME TWICE.
Contents
Front Cover Image
Welcome
Dedication
A Preview of Magnolia Sky
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
The Editor’s Diary
About the Author
Also by Susan Crandall
Acclaim for Susan Crandall’s Previous Novel, Back Roads
Copyright
About the Author
In her first career, Susan Crandall was a dental hygienist. However, her love of reading soon expanded to a love for writing, so she left her gentle tools of torture behind and began to pen novels. After spending several years in the big city (Chicago), she returned to the Indiana town where she grew up. There, she and her husband live with their two children and an eighty-pound “labsky” (half black lab, half husky).
Susan loves to hear from her readers. Write to: P.O. Box 1092, Noblesville, IN 46060. E-mail: [email protected]. Or visit her Web site at www.SusanCrandall.net.
ALSO BY SUSAN CRANDALL
Back Roads
ACCLAIM FOR SUSAN CRANDALL’S PREVIOUS NOVEL, BACK ROADS
“A well-written… fast-paced romance…. Crandall’s debut novel brings a strong new voice to the genre.”
—Romantic Times
“An exciting romantic suspense novel.”
—Midwest Book Review
“A rich, character-driven story… accomplished and very satisfying…. Add Susan Crandall to your list of authors to watch.”
—Bookloons.com
“Wonderful…. Readers will be enthralled with the suspense.”
—ARomanceReview.com
“An amazingly assured debut novel… expertly drawn.”
—TheRomanceReadersConnection.com
“Complex, thoroughly gripping… an extremely talented new voice to romantic suspense…. Back Roads is a definite all-nighter. Very highly recommended.”
—RomRevToday.com
Copyright
Copyright © 2004 by Susan Crandall
Excerpt from Magnolia Sky copyright © 2004 by Susan Crandall
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.
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First eBook Edition: September 2007
ISBN: 978-0-446-51080-6
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