by Susan Wiggs
I get by with a little help from my friends—Anjali Banerjee, Carol Cassella, Sheila Roberts, Suzanne Selfors, Elsa Watson, Kate Breslin, Mary Buckham, Lois Faye Dyer, Rose Marie Harris, Patty Jough-Haan, Susan Plunkett and Krysteen Seelen—wonderful writers and eagle-eyed readers.
Thanks to Sherrie Holmes for keeping all my ducks in a row.
Thanks to Margaret O’Neill-Marbury and Adam Wilson of MIRA Books, Meg Ruley and Annelise Robey of the Jane Rotrosen Agency, for invaluable advice and input. Thanks to my publisher and readers for supporting the Lakeshore Chronicles and for inspiring me to return to Avalon again and again.
A very special thank-you and all my love to my daughter Elizabeth, for her help with the recipes and for her marketing expertise. Thanks also to my sister, Lori, for proofreading, and to my mother, Lou, for mothering me no matter how old I get.
My family—the reason for everything—is bigger and more blessed than ever this year. Welcome to the family, Dave.
“Wiggs paints the details of human relationships with the finesse of a master.”—Jodi Picoult
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Lakeshore Christmas
The Summer Hideaway
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Return to Willow Lake
Candlelight Christmas
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ISBN: 978-1-4268-6876-4
LAKESHORE CHRISTMAS
Copyright © 2009 by Susan Wiggs.
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