Title: Stealing Home
First published: February 1, 2007
Description: There's nothing like a little serenity...

Maddie Townsend might live in a town called Serenity, but there's been nothing calm or peaceful about her life since her marriage broke up. This stay-at-home mom has no job skills, an out-of-control sixteen-year-old son, a talkative fourteen-year-old who's suddenly gone silent, a six-year-old daughter whose heart is broken, an ex-husband whose younger girlfriend is expecting their baby and two best friends who think she's somehow qualified to help them open a fitness spa for women.

But if Maddie is a tad on edge with all that on her plate, it's nothing compared to the chaos that ensues when she discovers that her son's baseball coach has feelings for her and the whole town disapproves. Maddie's faced a lot of challenges lately with strength and resolve, but Cal Maddox may turn out to be more than she can handle.

Then again, he could just be the one man in all of South Carolina who can help her find serenity.
Subjects: Fiction, Contemporary Romance, Small town, sports, baseball player, Divorced women, Single mother, Mères de famille monoparentale, Romans, nouvelles, Femmes divorcées, The Sweet Magnolias series
Places: Serenity, South Carolina
People: Maddie Townsend, Cal Maddox
Time periods: Contemporary, 2007