Five friends share life and laughter and love…until unexpected temptation changes everything“Jean Brashear tugs on your heartstrings and won't let go." ~New York Times bestselling author Julia LondonFrom New York Times bestselling Texas romance author Jean Brashear: a boxed set of the threepart serial, The Book Babes of Austin, including Texas Ties, Texas Troubles and Texas Together, another story in her popular Texas Heroes seriesThe Book Babes reading group began as five women wanting to talk books—but now they've become family. There's romance author Ava Sinclair, organizer and backbone; happilymarried mother of five Ellie Preston, the heart of the group; elegant art gallery owner Sylvie Everett; single mom and sociology professor Luisa Martinez; and ambitious attorney Laken Foster, the wild child of the bunch. For several years now, they've met monthly and discussed the current book a...