Michelle
Major (Fortune's
Fresh Start) begins a warmhearted series with The
Magnolia Sisters. Avery Keller, 30 years old and living in San
Francisco, has her life disrupted when she loses her high-powered job in risk
analysis and learns the man she loves is already married, with a family. Avery
receives another unexpected jolt when she gets word that her birth father, a
man whom Avery always believed knew nothing about her existence, has died and
left her an inheritance. In order to claim it, Avery sets off for Magnolia,
N.C., where she learns about her father, Niall Reed--a once prominent artist
and serial philanderer--whose lucrative paintings, in his heyday, captured
enough acclaim for him to buy up a lot of property in town.
Avery's revelations don't end
there. She learns she has two half-sisters--Magnolia natives who didn't know
they shared the same father--who are also beneficiaries of Niall's patrimony.
Wise-cracking 29-year-old animal-rescuer Meredith is drawn to fitted T-shirts,
cargo pants and boots, while 28-year-old artistic Carrie--the only one of the
sisters who was raised by their father--looks and acts like a "perfect
Southern belle." The three vastly different women grapple with their new
identities, each other and how best to handle Niall's fortune without
disrupting the small-town dynamic. Along the way, Avery falls for a handsome,
divorced firefighter embroiled in a messy custody battle for his precocious
daughter.
A large cast of well-drawn
characters and a host of intriguing story threads enlarge the hopeful,
heartfelt charm of Major's engrossing
new romance series.
The
Magnolia Sisters: Book One in the Magnolia Sisters Series by Michelle Major
Harlequin HQN, $7.99 Mass
Market Paperback, 9781335013286,
336 pages
Publication Date: March 31, 2020
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