She remarried and her step-dad adopted Margot when she was four. Margot’s mom left Lake Sackett and her first husband behind when Margot was three. Her only option for help is her estranged birth father’s family back in Lake Sackett, Georgia. Hoping for a partnership with the elite event planning firm she’s given ten years of her life to, Margot finds herself fired and blackballed after an event for the upper crust of Chicago implodes with dramatic flare. The two of them hit it off, but not everybody is happy to see an outsider snapping up one of the town's most eligible gentleman.Margot Cary’s life just fell apart. Elementary school principal Kyle Archer is a fellow fish-out-of-water who volunteers to show Margot the picture-postcard side of Southern living. Will Margot reel in her handsome fish, or will she have to release her latest catch?Īs Margot finds her footing in a town where everybody knows not only your name, but what you had for dinner last Saturday night and what you'll wear to church on Sunday morning, she grudgingly has to admit that there are some things Lake Sackett does better than Chicago-including the dating prospects. The two of them hit it off, but not everybody is happy to see an outsider snapping up one of the town's most eligible gentleman. Now she's blackballed by the gala set and in dire need of a fresh start-and apparently the McCreadys are in need of an event planner with a tarnished reputation.Īs Margot finds her footing in a town where everybody knows not only your name, but what you had for dinner last Saturday night and what you'll wear to church on Sunday morning, she grudgingly has to admit that there are some things Lake Sackett does better than Chicago-including the dating prospects. She's riding high until one event goes tragically, spectacularly wrong. As an elite event planner, Margot's rubbed elbows with the cream of Chicago society, and made elegance and glamour her business. Margot Cary has spent her life immersed in everything Lake Sackett is not. And true to form in small Southern towns, family business becomes everybody's business. (What, you have a problem with one-stop shopping?) Two McCready brothers started two separate businesses in the same building back in 1928, and now it's become one big family affair. Nestled on the shore of Lake Sackett, Georgia is the McCready Family Funeral Home and Bait Shop. Beloved author Molly Harper launches a brand-new contemporary romance series, Southern Eclectic, with this story of a big-city party planner who finds true love in a small Georgia town.

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