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    Talk of the Town: A Novel
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    Talk of the Town: A Novel

    By Mary Kay McComas

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    An artist finds love in the unlikeliest of places in this charming, award-winning romance by New York Times–bestselling author of The One for Me.
     
    Rosemary Wickum treasures the curious items she finds at the recycling center—pieces perfect for her metal sculptures. She has her hands full focusing on her art while waitressing to support her father and teenage son. But she becomes the talk of the town when Gary Albright, the handsome owner of the recycling center, begins pursuing her in earnest.
     
    With the whole town cheering them on, Rosemary and Gary discover their shared love for creating things of beauty out of the discarded and forgotten, a common ground on which to build a relationship based in trust, honesty, and love.
     
    “It is a rare author who can weave together irresistible characters, emotional heartache, wacky humor and social consciousness–all within one superb romance. Rarer still is one who can do it with such exquisite style. Brava, Mary Kay McComas!” —RT Book Reviews
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateDec 3, 2013
    ISBN9781626810877
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    Talk of the Town: A Novel
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    Mary Kay McComas

    Mary Kay McComas is an acclaimed romance novelist and the author of twenty-one short contemporary romances, five novellas, and two novels. McComas has received numerous honors and prizes for her work, including the Washington Romance Writers’ Outstanding Achievement Award and two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times (one for Best New Novel and another for Most Innovative Romance Series). She has recently contributed to Nora Roberts’s J. D. Robb fantasy anthologies, with highly praised paranormal romance stories. McComas and her family live in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.     

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      This was a thoroughly entertaining read, plus interesting theories on the garbage industry that I never reaqlly thought about., before