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Dose love have an expiration date? Piper needed a fresh start, a chance to rediscover herself. What she didn't anticipate was stumbling upon her soul mate, only to walk away from him. Austin had his sights set on a football career and college success, never imagining he would encounter true love, only to see it slip through his fingers. As they navigate separate paths, both Piper and Austin must confront their pasts and the undeniable connection that still lingers between them.

I spent 6 years begging my parents to send me away to a boarding school in England. I wanted to pack my trunk and enter into a magical world that I spent years dreaming about. When my dream finally become a reality, and was accepted into the elite Hastings House Boarding School, I thought my life was changing into a real life historical and picturesque adventure where my Harry Potter and Miss Marple fantasies came to life. What I didn't factor into that dream was a crazy ex girlfriend, a stalker and three insufferable but extremely handsome boys.

When Helen Honeycutt falls in love with Emmet Justice, a charismatic television journalist who has recently lost his wife in a tragic accident, their sudden marriage creates a rift between her new husband and his oldest friends, who resent Helen's intrusion into their tightly knit circle. Hoping to mend fences, the newlyweds join the group for a summer at his late wife's family home in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.

In a small Alabama town in Zion County, life is finally looking up for 20-year-old Donnette Sullivan. Having just inherited her aunt's old house and beauty shop, she's taken over the business, and her husband Tim, recently crippled in an accident, is beginning to cope not just with his disabilities but also with the loss of his dreams. Once a promising artist who gave up art for sports, Tim paints a sign for Donnette's shop, Making Waves. The raising of the sign causes ripples through the town.

Cassandra King was leading a quiet life as a professor, divorced "Sunday wife" of a preacher, and debut novelist when she met Pat Conroy. Their friendship bloomed into a tentative, long-distance relationship. Pat and Cassandra ultimately married, partly because Pat hated the commute from coastal South Carolina to her native Alabama. It was a union that would last 18 years, until the beloved literary icon’s death from pancreatic cancer in 2016. In this poignant, intimate memoir, the woman he called King Ray looks back at her love affair with a natural-born storyteller.