Fireside

Fireside
Susan Wiggs

Dreams come true with Susan WiggsKim van Dorn was living the dream. The best publicist on the West Coast and girlfriend of a star – it all seemed too good to be true. There was just one catch: it was.Now that Kim’s perfect life has imploded she flees to Willow Lake to start over. With no career and moving back in with her mother, Kim is afraid of what the future might hold. To protect her heart she vows never to let another man in – and then sexy baseball player Bo turns up and challenges all her rules.A fresh start and a supportive community are just what Kim needs to push her into a bigger and better future. While she’s making a new life for herself, Kim must learn to leave the past in the past and that risking her heart won’t always end in disaster.Perfect for fans of Cathy Kelly

Acclaim forNew York Timesbestselling author Susan Wiggs

‘… Truly uplifting …’

—Now magazine

‘This is a beautiful book’

—Bookbag on Just Breathe

‘… Unpredictable and refreshing, this is irresistibly good.’

—Closer Hot Pick Book on Just Breathe

‘A human and multi-layered story exploring duty to both country and family’

—Nora Roberts on

The Ocean Between Us

‘Susan Wiggs paints the details of human relationships with the finesse of a master.’

—Jodi Picoult, author of Nineteen Minutes

‘The perfect beach read’

—Debbie Macomber on Summer by the Sea

Also bySusan Wiggs

The Lakeshore Chronicles SUMMER AT WILLOW LAKE THE WINTER LODGE DOCKSIDE SNOWFALL AT WILLOW LAKE FIRESIDE LAKESHORE CHRISTMAS

The Tudor Rose Trilogy AT THE KING’S COMMAND THE MAIDEN’S HAND AT THE QUEEN’S SUMMONS

Contemporary HOME BEFORE DARK THE OCEAN BETWEEN US SUMMER BY THE SEA TABLE FOR FIVE LAKESIDE COTTAGE JUST BREATHE

All available in eBook

Fireside

Susan Wiggs

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This book is for my friend Lois, with love.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to my own personal brain trust—

Anjali Banerjee, Carol Cassella, Sheila Roberts,

Suzanne Selfors, Elsa Watson, Kate Breslin,

Lois Faye Dyer, Rose Marie Harris, Patty Jough-Haan,

Susan Plunkett and Krysteen Seelen—

wonderful writers and even better friends.

Thanks to Mr David Boyle, president and co-owner

of the New Haven County Cutters, for information

regarding Independent Baseball and the

Can-Am League.

Thanks also to Margaret O’Neill Marbury and

Adam Wilson of MIRA Books, Meg Ruley and

Annelise Robey of the Jane Rotrosen Agency,

for invaluable advice and input. Thanks to my publisher

and readers for supporting the Lakeshore Chronicles

and for coming back to Avalon again and again.

With every word I write, I’m grateful to my family—

the reason for everything.

‘A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive

feature. It is earth’s eye; looking into which the

beholder measures the depth of his own nature.’

—Henry David Thoreau

Walden, ‘The Ponds’

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