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Savannah belle BeBe Loudermilk struggles to cope with the loss of everything following her relationship with Reddy, a con man, finding herself left only with a ramshackle 1950s motor court on Tybee Island, until she launches a campaign to retrieve her fortune and bring Reddy to justice.

Stricken by polio, Paige Dunn continues to raise her daughter, Diana, with the help of her caretaker Peacie, in a novel set against the backdrop of Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1964.

Detective Dave Robicheaux struggles with alcoholism and rage while fighting to protect lives in Katrina-devastated New Orleans.

After a bizarre accident, construction worker Mick Brannigan is forced into the role of stay-at-home dad while his wife Layne returns to a law firm.

With her favorite market, the Piggly Wiggly, on the verge of closing due to competition from the Mega-Mart across town, Laurie Lepanto launches a campaign to save the store.

Inheriting a historic Mississippi family home she knows little about, Nora Bondurant moves to the house hoping to forget her unhappy past but becomes enmeshed in a mystery surrounding her aunt’s untimely death.

When he arrives in Louisiana in 1927, Hale Poser finds racial prejudices missing from the small town of Pilotsville, but while searching for a missing child, he uncovers evidence of the town’s darker side.

Hoping to sell some of her watercolors, Becca Sims wanders into the seaside Gallery Valentine, never expecting that her life will be transformed by the gallery owner and his best friend, in a novel set in small-town South Carolina.

Running the local general store for their small-town South Carolina community, manager Elizabeth enlists her two fellow shopkeepers and a crew of friends to save the store from a rival who would put her out of business.

When a wealthy plantation owner in 1944 Louisiana turns up dead and eviscerated, Deputy Raymond Thibodeaux is confronted by Adele Hebert, who is found covered in blood next to the body and who claims to be a shapeshifter.

Five years after fleeing to New York in the wake of a murder acquittal, Adam Chase returns to North Carolina, only to find himself trapped in the middle of a new case of murder as the people around him begin to die and he becomes the prime suspect.

Dissatisfied with their lives, three southern belles discover they are all dealing with cheating spouses and launch a joint campaign to seek revenge.

Experiencing panic attacks and blackouts at murder scenes, forensics expert Cat Ferry is suspended from her task force and returns to her Mississippi hometown, where she discovers disturbing information about her father’s murder.

When cryptic messages are discovered on the bodies of a pair of murder victims, Alabama police detective Carson Ryder and veteran officer Harry Nautilus must seek help from Ryder’s brother, a convicted killer.

Every two years, a tight-knit group of Southern women come together for a reunion to renew their relationships with one another, each of them having an incredible story to tell about the course their lives have taken.

When a southern writer demands that their untraditional, shoestring film company make the movie of her life, producer Angie accompanies her colleagues to Georgia, where a man from her past is preparing to marry a wealthy debutante.

In rural South Carolina, Maggie and Dylan expectantly await the birth of their first child. Tragedy strikes when their son is stillborn and Maggie slips into a long-term coma. Refusing to give up on her recovery, a devastated Dylan marks time earning money as an adjunct English professor.

Toy Sooner, a single mother and marine biologist opening a turtle rehab facility with the help of a director at the South Carolina Aquarium, must find a way to deal with the return of her daughter’s vindictive father, who has just been released from prison.

Laid off from her job with a big-city law firm, attorney Avery Andrews returns to the small Southern town of her childhood in the hope of setting up a new practice.

Rebuilding her life on a plantation after the disappearance of her mother and the death of a sibling, Emily Parmenter forges a near-mystical relationship with her beloved spaniel and finds her world changing after the arrival of a rebellious debutante.

The lives of three generations of two African-American families intertwine in the aftermath of the Civil War as newly freed slaves struggle to build new lives in The Bottom, a poor settlement just down Red River from Colfax, Louisiana.

In a modern tale based on the classic film, “Arsenic and Old Lace,” the women of a small town’s bird-watching society secretly plot to murder a member’s husband who tricked his wife into marriage in order to steal her land for a development project.