Stealing Home (Sweet Magnolias, Book 1)
In her latest small-town Southern romance, well-loved Woods portrays Maddie Townsend, who has been blindsided by her pediatrician husband's very public affair with his now-pregnant nurse and the subsequent divorce. Maddie is barely managing to get through each day. Then Ty, her oldest son and the town's star pitcher, loses his concentration on the field and in class, and his coach, former major leaguer Cal Maddox, calls Maddie in for a conference. Maddie's best friends--Helen, the barracuda lawyer, and Dana Sue, a local chef--then offer her a job and a chance to redeem her self-respect: they will finance a for-women-only gym and spa if Maddie will manage it. As Maddie and Cal work together to help Ty, they must decide how to handle their growing closeness in the fishbowl that is Serenity, South Carolina. Woods begins the Sweet Magnolias series with a focus on the unsettling effects of divorce and infidelity on the children of broken marriages, a theme that adds depth and emotional intensity to the romantic relationship.Lynne WelchCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved