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Posted July 1, 2026

Joyful July Giveaway

Dear Reader,

It’s Joyful July! Let’s celebrate my favorite month with a Joyful July giveaway. I’m going to be announcing winners all month long. I have over 150 books to give away, going all the way back to the beginning of my career, plus Beach Bites Cookbooks, One Big Happy Family ornaments, and more. I want to spend this whole month making readers smile.

Enter now on the Contest page of my website!

 

COMING SOON

Otherwise Engaged will be out in paperback next month with stunning painted-edge pages. This book came out in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook last autumn. If you missed it, now is your chance to get it in this beautiful, limited-edition paperback. (It truly is a limited-edition, so if you want the painted pages, you should preorder it right away so you don’t miss out.)

Order your deluxe trade paperback edition with gorgeous sprayed edges, available for a limited time.

Secrets, lies, and betrayals fly faster than a tossed bouquet when two sets of mothers and daughters visit a wedding venue from #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery.

When Shannon gets engaged, her beloved mom, Cindy, is the first person she wants to tell—and the last. Cindy’s engaged, too, and has already hinted at a double wedding. The image of a synchronized bouquet toss with her mom fills Shannon with horror. She’ll keep her engagement a secret until Cindy’s I-dos are done.

Victoria has never been proper enough for her mother, Ava, so she stopped trying. She lives on her own terms and amuses herself by pushing Ava’s buttons. Ava loves but doesn’t understand her stuntwoman daughter. When a movie-set mishap brings Victoria home, Ava longs to finally connect.

Chance brings the four women together at a wedding venue, where a shocking secret comes tumbling out. Twenty-four years ago, desperate teenager Cindy chose wealthy Ava to adopt her baby—then changed her mind at the very last second. The loss rocked Ava’s world, leaving her unable to open her heart to the daughter she did adopt, Victoria. As Shannon and Victoria deal with the fallout from the decisions their mothers made, they wrestle with whether who they are is different than who they might have become.

PREORDER THE PAPERBACK IN PRINT: Amazon | B&N | Books a Million | Bookshop | Target | Walmart

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Good luck!


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