Happiness Key

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MIRA, Jul 1, 2009 - Fiction - 400 pages


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, Janya Kapur has left her wealthy, close-knit Indian family for an arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. Plainspoken Wanda Gray is tired of watching her marriage fail, so she takes a job guaranteed to destroy it—if her husband cares enough to discover what she's doing. Since her daughter's death, widow Alice Brooks has grown forgetful and confused. Her son-in-law and granddaughter have come to stay, but Alice isn't sure she's grateful.

When the only other resident of Happiness Key dies alone in his cottage, the four women warily join forces to find his family. Together, they discover difficult truths about their own lives and the men they love—and uncover the treasure of an unlikely friendship.

 

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Contents

Section 1
7
Section 2
18
Section 3
35
Section 4
53
Section 5
72
Section 6
79
Section 7
95
Section 8
112
Section 20
294
Section 21
311
Section 22
328
Section 23
348
Section 24
359
Section 25
371
Section 26
391
Section 27
411

Section 9
130
Section 10
142
Section 11
158
Section 12
175
Section 13
192
Section 14
210
Section 15
222
Section 16
232
Section 17
252
Section 18
265
Section 19
281
Section 28
429
Section 29
440
Section 30
455
Section 31
465
Section 32
473
Section 33
490
Section 34
505
Section 35
519
Section 36
533
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About the author (2009)

Emilie Richards’s many novels feature complex characterizations and in-depth explorations of social issues, a result of her training and experience as a family counselor, which contribute to her fascination with relationships of all kinds. Emilie, a mother of four, lives with her husband in northern Virginia, where she is currently working on her next novel for MIRA Books.

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