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Product: Pleasant Day: Southern Fiction for Women “Absolutely unputdownable, a real page turner. Be prepared to clear your schedule for the day.” —Wall to Wall Books

In the town of Hollow Creek, South Carolina two separate murders, fifteen years apart, unite fifteen-year-old Pleasant Day and sixty-year-old Clarissa Blackwell. As Pleasant struggles with her mother's distance, her father's infidelity and the death of her best friend, she draws closer to Clarissa, an older woman with an uncanny, almost psychic, ability to 'read people.'

As Clarissa uncovers the stories behind the murders, both Pleasant and Clarissa's worlds are transformed by the truths they’re forced to accept, and both find solace and strength in the shared histories that have shaped them.

Product: Southern Fiction Box Set: 3 Historical Family Sagas Set in the South In this Southern Fiction Box set, you'll enjoy three full-length family sagas that follow the turbulent, yet triumphant, lives of three young women. In The Story of Sassy Sweetwarter, Sassy struggles with dark family secrets as she tries to win the love of a man she foolishly rejected in her youth. In Where the Wildflowers Grow, Rose discovers passion outside of her marriage and struggles to understand her desperate desires for another woman. Last but not least, Grace Place discovers fame and fortune in the most unlikely Paradise in Dancing Backward in Paradise.

Product: Pleasant Day by Cook, Vera Jane (2015) Paperback

Product: The Story of Sassy Sweetwater: Southern Fiction for Women

After thirteen years on the run Violet McLaughlin returns to Carter’s Crossing, South Carolina, in 1962, with her young daughter, Sassy. The Crossing is right outside of Beaufort and the turmoil of the Civil Rights movement will forever leave its scars on the young and impressionable girl.

As Sassy stands before the imposing white farmhouse for the first time, with no knowledge of her history but that the McLaughlin's are her kin, Sassy begins a journey that will tear her apart before it heals her.

Growing up among secrets that will forever damage her relationship with her mother, she attempts to make sense of her past. But will her passion for art and her love for Thomas Tierney be enough to sustain her future?

Will the journey she must take to discover the truth be worth it?