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PUBLISHED: Jun.28.2011

Sunset Bridge (a Happiness Key Novel)

Former socialite Tracy Deloche has nothing to her name but five ramshackle beach cottages and the unlikely friendships she's formed with her tenants. Wanda, wise waitress turned popular pie-shop owner. Janya, the young Indian wife whose arranged marriage surprises her every day. Alice, a widow raising her complex tween-age granddaughter. And Maggie, Wanda's...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.29.2010

Fortunate Harbor

Join five women connected only by their growing friendship and the road that runs like a lifeline between their cottages in a run-down Florida development called Happiness Key. Tracy Deloche finally gets a chance to swap business for a romantic evening with Marsh Egan, but dinner goes cold when she spots her ex-husband prowling outside her cottage. CJ is supposed to be in prison...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.2009

Happiness Key

Meet four women who think they have nothing in common except the oyster-shell road that runs between their ramshackle beach cottages on a spit of land called Happiness Key. When her husband is sent to prison, pampered Tracy Deloche is left with twenty-five acres of Florida Gulf Coast sand, five tumbledown beach houses and no idea how to start over. An exile in a strange country,...

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PUBLISHED: Feb.01.2009

A Lie for a Lie

Aggie Sloan Wilcox likes to practice what her minister husband preaches--to a point. But babysitting a narcissistic "star" demands the patience of a saint, and Aggie isn't bucking for a halo. Actor and singer Grady Barber has returned to his hometown to judge the Emerald Springs Idyll, a talent show to help raise funds for the local hospital. As the newest volunteer on...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.2008

Sister's Choice

Kendra and Jamie were never storybook sisters. But after a long estrangement, Jamie has offered Kendra and her husband their ultimate dream, a child of their own. Despite some lingering misgivings about her once-wayward younger sister, Kendra agrees, and Jamie, a promising architect and single mother, becomes a gestational surrogate for Kendra and Isaac. In addition to this...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.2004

Wedding Ring

Meet Helen, the expert quilt maker and family curmudgeon, who pieced a wedding ring quilt top for her hope chest, only to put it away without quilting it after her marriage ended abruptly. Meet steel magnolia Nancy, Helen’s daughter, who found the top and quilted it in the early, unhappy days of her own marriage as she struggled to uphold and strengthen the vows she had made. ...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.2009

Happiness Key

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PUBLISHED: Nov.01.2007

Beware False Profits

There's no rest for the weary Aggie Sloan-Wilcox and her minister husband, who were praying for a relaxing weekend until a member of their Emerald Springs church vanished... When Joe Wagner, director of Helping Hands, the Emerald Springs food bank, goes missing, Aggie discovers his secret life—as a female impersonator. Then Joe’s disappearing act pales in significance when the...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.2007

Touching Stars, A Shenandoah Album Novel

Gayle Fortman has built a good life for herself and her three sons. Divorced from charismatic broadcast journalist Eric Fortman, Gayle has made a success of Daugther of the Stars, a popular bed-and-breakfast. Then, on the eve of the eldest son Jared's graduation, Eric returns, but not for the celebration. He nearly lost his life in Afghanistan and needs a place to recover. ...

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PUBLISHED: Dec.01.2006

Let There be Suspects

Now that the recent excitement in her husband's congregation has "died" down, Aggie is certain her life in bucolic Emerald Springs will return to normal. Then mother Junie decides Christmas is a perfect time for a family reunion. At Aggie's house, during an all-church open house. The holidays can really be a killer, particularly when sisters squabble and peace and...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.2006

Lover's Knot

In a cave in the Shenandoah National Park, two bodies are discovered, wrapped in the tattered remains of a lover's knot quilt. In Washington, DC, Isaac Taylor inherits a nearly identical quilt from a grandmother whose name he never even knew. After narrowly escaping death, newspaper journalist Kendra Taylor retreats to a cabin nestled in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to heal and...

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PUBLISHED: Dec.01.2005

Blessed is the Busybody

Meet the unconventional Aggie Sloan-Wilcox, a minister’s wife with her own calling: helping troubled souls in need of justice. . . Aggie’s free-spirited ways have been raising many an eyebrow at the Consolidated Community Church, tucked away in cookie-cutter perfect Emerald Springs, Ohio. But nothing is more shocking than the naked body of a murdered woman turning up on her front...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.2005

Endless Chain

Sam Kinkade is finally feeling reasonably content with his work as a minister in rural Toms Brook, Virginia. But when his plans to welcome the area's growing Hispanic community to the church are met with resistance, a woman arrives to take a job as the church sexton and help build bridges. Elisa Martinez is an enigma, and Sam is certain she is not who she seems. Despite his own...

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Nov.14.2011 - 1:33 pm

Back Story, Front Story, and Nothing In Between

--original blog post 11/11/11-- Picture this: You’ve splurged on a hefty hardcover you know you’ll spend weeks reading. You’ve given the bookstore your hard-earned...

Nov.14.2011 - 1:21 pm

All Those Things That Happen Before the Book Begins

--original blog post 11/4/11-- This week was a milestone in my career. I turned in One Mountain Away, which is the first in the Goddesses Anonymous series set in Asheville,...

Nov.03.2011 - 7:42 am

Using Everyday Events in Fiction

I just got off the telephone with Amazon. My life work this week has been to track down a package I ordered. I had to find out why it arrived in town but was...

Oct.18.2011 - 10:43 am

Daily News, Daily Blues, Pick Out a Story Every Time You Choose

Okay, who remembers Tom Paxton? Remember his song Daily News? “Daily news, daily blues, pick up a copy every time you choose. Seven little pennies in the...

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May.03.2011 - 5:19 pm

In response to: Writer's Paralysis: How to Get Moving Again

So many frustrating

So many frustrating possibilities to turn in our favor, huh? www.emilierichards.com

Mar.06.2010 - 7:37 pm

In response to: Couldn't I Have Said That Better? Editing, Galleys and Errors

Editing Tricks

Lynn, I've discovered that reading every single word out loud before I send off a book or even a blog makes all the...

Mar.30.2009 - 6:22 pm

In response to: Finding Your Voice

Beagles

Mary, Nemo really is a quiet little guy, but when he has something to say, apparently he will say it. And Kunzang, it...

Jan.25.2009 - 7:35 am

In response to: Pick a Card, Any Card

Tarot and Jung

Diane, Great point about the Jungian nature of the cards. We pull what we need, and sometimes surprises, too. Anyway...

Jan.24.2009 - 9:32 am

In response to: Pick a Card, Any Card

I have those cards!

Jennifer and the esteemed Casey, First Jennifer, I have that deck. I'm looking forward to learning them. I spent so...

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Jul.01.2010

Fortunate Harbor

Published by http://www.amazon.com/Fortunate-Harbor-Happiness-Emilie-Richards/dp/0778327701/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_2

The five women who own cottages at Happiness Key could not be more different, but that doesn't stop them from being friends. Janya hasn't been able to get pregnant, and her...

About Emilie

Emilie Richards is the author of sixty something novels which have been published in more than twenty-one countries and sixteen languages. In the summer of 1996 she began her single title career and continues to write for Mira Books, most recently Sunset...

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Habitat for Humanity, Christian Children's Fund, Doctors Without Borders, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Holdeen Fund of the Unitarian Universalist...

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