Snowfall at Willow Lake

Snowfall at Willow Lake
Susan Wiggs

Fill your winter with snowflakes, sparkles & Susan WiggsAs the stars light the falling snowflakes, Sophie Bellamy arrives back in Willow Lake. Her job as a top international lawyer seems like a distant memory, but the horrors inflicted by a hostage attack still return in her dreams. With every bad thing must come good…and for Sophie it’s remembering what matters most.So she’s back – to her children who chose to live with their father and the small town she once called home, determined to repair the bonds with her family.Sophie has wrongs to right and she knows it isn’t going to be easy. But when she’s rescued from a snowdrift on her first night back in town by the pretty gorgeous Noah Shepherd, she realises that everything is not exactly as she remembered, everyone deserves a second chance at happiness and hearts often need a helping hand to heal.For fans of Cathy Kelly

Acclaim for New York Times bestselling 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 Lone Wolf

‘The perfect beach read’

—Debbie Macomber on Summer by the Sea

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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

Snowfall at Willow Lake

Susan Wiggs

www.mirabooks.co.uk (http://www.mirabooks.co.uk)

To Rose Marie Harris,

who owned and operated Paperbacks Plus, the best

little bookstore in Washington State for the past

twenty-seven years. She’s the kind of bookseller every

writer dreams about—well-read, enthusiastic, caring

and helpful, with an uncanny knack for putting the

right book into the hands of the reader who is sure

to love it. A book signing at Paperbacks Plus always

involved plenty of food, friends and fun, making for

unforgettable events, year in and year out.

To Rose Marie, Kate, Lois and the rest of

the staff—it was a great run, ladies.

Thanks for everything.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The daily work of a writer involves spending many hours alone with a roomful of fictional characters, and it takes a lot of love and understanding from the real people in my life to put up with that.

Thanks to the real Momzillas, who are nothing like the ones in this book.

I am truly blessed by the women writers in my life. Their moral support and brain power enrich the entire experience of making stories and art, and their talents keep me in awe—Anjali Banerjee, Carol Cassella, Sheila Rabe, Suzanne Selfors, Elsa Watson, Kate Breslin, Lois Faye Dyer, Rose Marie Harris, Patty Jough-Haan, Susan Plunkett and Krysteen Seelen.

Thanks also to Margaret O’Neill Marbury, my ever-patient editor, Meg Ruley, my agent, and her associate Annelise Robey, for invaluable advice and input.

Thanks to my publisher and readers for turning the Lakeshore Chronicles into a great success. The books came from me, but the success from you.

I’m so very grateful for my family, including our newest arrival, Barkis the wonderdog. Special thanks to my wonderful mom and dad—I only wish I could be as good as you think I am.

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