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The national bestselling author of The Same Sweet Girls and The Sunday Wife returns with another compulsively readable novelIts not easy being the Queen of Broken Hearts Just ask Clare who has willingly assumed the mantle while her career as a divorce coach thrives Now shes preparing to open a permanent home for the retreats she leads on a slice of breathtaking property on the Alabama coast owned by her mother-in-law Make that former mother-in-law a colorful eccentric who teaches Clare much about love and sacrifice and living freely When Clares marriage ends in tragedy her work becomes the sole focus of her life While Clare has no problem helping the hundreds of men and women who seek her advice to mend their broken hearts healing her own is another matter entirely Falling in love again is the last thing she wantsSo when Lex -- a charismatic charming burly sea captain -- moves to town to run the marina Clare insists they remain friends and nothing more But even though she fights it she begins to fall for him -- and then finds she has a rival his estranged wife AnnaleeA story infused with all the flavors textures and intrigues of a small Southern town with a rich resonant center Queen of Broken Hearts is a bold step forward for Cassandra King.
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Cassandra King is the author of five novels, most recently the critically acclaimed Moonrise (2013) , her literary homage to Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Moonrise is a Fall 2013 Okra Pick and a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) bestseller. It has been described as "her finest book to date."Fellow Southern writers Sandra Brown, Fannie Flagg, and Dorothea Benton Frank hailed her previous novel, Queen of Broken Hearts (2008) , as "wonderful," "uplifting," "absolutely fabulous," and "filled with irresistible characters." Prior to that, King's third book, The Same Sweet Girls (2005) , was a #1 Booksense Selection and Booksense bestseller, a Southeastern Bookseller Association bestseller, a New York Post Required Reading selection, and a Literary Guild Book-of-the-Month Club selection.Her first novel, Making Waves in Zion, was published in 1995 by River City Press and reissued in 2004 by Hyperion. Her second novel, The Sunday Wife (2002) , was a Booksense Pick, a People Magazine Page-Turner of the Week, a Literary Guild Book-of-the-Month selection, a Books-a-Million President's Pick, a South Carolina State Readers' Circle selection, and a Salt Lake Library Readers' Choice Award nominee. In paperback, the novel was chosen by the Nestle Corporation for its campaign to promote reading groups.King's short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Callaloo, Alabama Bound: The Stories of a State (1995) , Belles' Letters: Contemporary Fiction by Alabama Women (1999) , Stories From Where We Live (2002) , and Stories From The Blue Moon Café (2004) . Aside from writing fiction, she has taught writing on the college level, conducted corporate writing seminars, worked as a human-interest reporter for a Pelham, Alabama, weekly paper, and published an article on her second-favorite pastime, cooking, in Cooking Light magazine. A native of L.A. (Lower Alabama) , King currently lives in the Low Country of South Carolina with her husband, novelist Pat Conroy, whom she met when he wrote a blurb for Making Waves.For more information about Cassandra King and information about upcoming events, please visit http://www.cassandrakingconroy.com.
