March 2011 On Sale: March 1, 2011 Featuring: Emily Partman; Sandy Portman 336 pages ISBN: 0312382189 EAN: 9780312382186 Hardcover $24.99  Add to Wish List Women’s Fiction Contemporary Buy at Amazon.com Best Friend can be a dog Emily And Einstein by Linda Francis Lee A novel about second chances He was a man who didn’t deserve a second chance…but he needed one Emily and her husband Sandy Portman seemed to live a gracious if busy life in an old-world, Upper West Side apartment in the famous Dakota building. But one night on the way to meet Emily, Sandy dies in a tragic accident. The funeral isn’t even over before Emily learns she is on the verge of being evicted from their apartment. But worse than the possibility of losing her home, Emily is stunned when she discovers that her marriage was made up of lies. Suddenly Emily is forced on a journey to find out who her husband really was…all the while feeling that somehow he isn’t really gone. And what if he isn’t? Angry, hurt, and sometimes betrayed by loving memories of the man she lost, Emily finds comfort in a scruffy dog named Einstein. But is Einstein’s seemingly odd…

When it comes to debutantes, it takes all kinds to make the world go round. In THE EX-DEBUTANTE Carlisle Cushing is a debutante who has always been a fish out of water, the odd duck in a world of swans. So she hardly fits into any category. In fact, she left her Texas high society world to become a determined lawyer far away in Boston . . . then committed the unforgivable sin (as far as her deeply southern mother is concerned) of becoming engaged to a Yankee. Then all of the sudden she can’t believe it when she gets dragged back to Texas to take over the debutante ball . . . and comes face to face with the man she loved and lost. Take the quiz below to find your own inner deb! What Kind of a Debutante Are You? When you are in line ready to make your official bow, you: hope the deb in front of you face plants into the floor cracking her porcelain veneers have warned the photographer to capture your best side are certain you will be voted Deb of the Year pray you aren’t the deb who face plants into the floor…