EBOOK Sugar Queen

BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Sarah Addison Allen&'s The Peach Keeper and The Girl Who Chased the Moon. In this irresistible follow-up to her New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells, author Sarah Addison Allen tells the tale of a young woman whose family secretsand secret passionsare about to change her life forever.Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season, she&'s a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her hidden closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mother&'s house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night. Until she finds it harboring none other than local waitress Della Lee Baker, a tough-talking, tenderhearted woman who is one part nemesisand two parts fairy godmotherFleeing a life of bad luck and big mistakes, Della Lee has decided Josey&'s clandestine closet is the safest place to crash. In return she&'s going to change Josey&'s lifebecause, clearly, it is not the closet of a happy woman. With Della Lee&'s tough love, Josey is soon forgoing pecan rolls and caramels, tapping into her startlingly keen feminine instincts, and finding her narrow existence quickly expanding.Before long, Josey bonds with Chloe Finley, a young woman who makes the best sandwiches in town, is hounded by books that inexplicably appear whenever she needs them, andmost amazing of allhas a close connection to Josey&'s longtime crush. As little by little Josey dares to step outside herself, she discovers a world where the color red has astonishing power, passion can make eggs fry in their cartons, and romance can blossom at any timeeven for her. It seems that Della Lee&'s work is done, and it&'s time for her to move on. But the truth about where she&'s going, why she showed up in the first placeand what Chloe has to do with it allis about to add one more unexpected chapter to Josey&' s fast-changing life.Brimming with warmth, wit, and a sprinkling of magic, here is a spellbinding tale of friendship, loveand the enchanting possibilities of every new day.