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The Best Laid Wedding Plans: a charming southern romance of second chances
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SOME DREAMS ARE WORTH WHATEVER IT TAKES

With love in their hearts and planning the perfect wedding on their minds, the possibilities are endless for the women of Lynette Austin's new Magnolia Brides series. Readers will fall head over heels with:

  • The sweet Southern charm
  • The second-chance romance
  • The wonderful cast of characters full of small-town heart
  • Jenni Beth Beaumont left her broken heart behind when she took her dream job in Savannah. But after her brother's death, Jenni Beth returns home to help mend her parents' hearts as well as restore their beautiful but crumbling antebellum mansion. New dreams take shape as Jenni Beth sets to work replacing floors and fixing pipes to convert the family homestead into the perfect wedding destination. She wants couples to find their happy place in her family home during the most important moment of their lives. However, some folks in their small Southern town are determined to see her fail.

    Cole Bryson was once the love of Jenni Beth's life, but the charming architectural salvager has plans of his own for the Beaumont family home. As the two butt heads, old turmoil is brought to the surface and Cole and Jenni Beth will have to work through some painful memories and tough realities before they can set their pasts aside and have a second chance at their own happily ever after.

    Praise for The Best Laid Wedding Plans:

    "All about small towns, community, and sweet and sexy romance."—Booklist

    "An intriguing premiere...well-developed characters and sensual romantic tension."—Publishers Weekly

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  • The sweet Southern charm
  • The second-chance romance
  • The wonderful cast of characters full of small-town heart
  • Jenni Beth Beaumont left her broken heart behind when she took her dream job in Savannah. But after her brother's death, Jenni Beth returns home to help mend her parents' hearts as well as restore their beautiful but crumbling antebellum mansion. New dreams take shape as Jenni Beth sets to work replacing floors and fixing pipes to convert the family homestead into the perfect wedding destination. She wants couples to find their happy place in her family home during the most important moment of their lives. However, some folks in their small Southern town are determined to see her fail.

    Cole Bryson was once the love of Jenni Beth's life, but the charming architectural salvager has plans of his own for the Beaumont family home. As the two butt heads, old turmoil is brought to the surface and Cole and Jenni Beth will have to work through some painful memories and tough realities before they can set their pasts aside and have a second chance at their own happily ever after.

    Praise for The Best Laid Wedding Plans:

    "All about small towns, community, and sweet and sexy romance."—Booklist

    "An intriguing premiere...well-developed characters and sensual romantic tension."—Publishers Weekly

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          Jenni Beth Beaumont leaves behind her dream job as a wedding planner in Savannah and returns to Misty Bottoms, Georgia, when she realizes just how bad things are at home. Her parents haven't recovered from the death of her brother, Wes, and now they're in danger of losing the mansion that's been her family's since before the Civil War. Jenni Beth plans to turn Magnolia House into THE place for destination weddings, but she didn't count on Cole Bryson turning up everywhere she looks. Cole, an architectural salvager, was Wes' best friend and the love of Jenni Beth's life, but he's broken her heart one too many times and she is now determined to prevent him from getting her house or her heart. A subplot involving sabotage helps to move the story forward. The first book in the Magnolia Brides series is all about small towns, community, and sweet and sexy romance.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)

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  • The sweet Southern charm
  • The second-chance romance
  • The wonderful cast of characters full of small-town heart
  • Jenni Beth Beaumont left her broken heart behind when she took her dream job in Savannah. But after her brother's death, Jenni Beth returns home to help mend her parents' hearts as well as restore their beautiful but crumbling antebellum mansion. New dreams take shape as Jenni Beth sets to work replacing floors and fixing pipes to convert the family homestead into the perfect wedding destination. She wants couples to find their happy place in her family home during the most important moment of their lives. However, some folks in their small Southern town are determined to see...

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