Empty Vows

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<b>In this scandalous follow-up to the Depression-era tale<i>Mrs. Wiggins</i>, award-winning and<i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Mary Monroe brings even more period drama as a proper church-going woman ensnares a widower living too many secretsand lies.</b><br><br><b>Reminiscent of Monroes classic, captivating, scandalous Mama Ruby series.</b><br> <br> Forty-something widow Jessie Tucker is beloved throughout Lexington, Alabama, for her kind heart and endless generosity. But she feels it's past time she rewarded<i>herself</i>especially when upstanding Hubert Wiggins tragically loses his wife and son. Making herself indispensable, yet discouraged by Huberts lack of romantic interest, Jessie cooks up a deception she knows will make pious Hubert do right by her . . .<br> <br> Hoax or not, Hubert couldnt be happier. The passionate self hes long hidden from everyone has a new, much-riskier secret love. And the unsuspecting second Mrs. Wiggins will help him maintain his ever-so-devout image in the community . . .<br> <br> But when Hubert is not the ardent lover Jessie always dreamed he was, she turns to handsome younger man Conway. Suddenly the good church wife can't resist temptation at all. And someone is watching:  Conways new girlfriendand Jessie's longtime rival--Blondeen. Now Blondeen has the perfect opportunity to destroy Jessies reputation--then become the wife Hubert should have had all along. Unless all their secrets destroy them first.<br> 

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<b>Mary Monroe</b>&#xa0;is the award-winning and&#xa0;<i>New York Times</i>&#xa0;bestselling author of over 20 novels, with over one million books in print. She is a three-time AALBC bestseller and winner of the AAMBC Maya Angelou Lifetime Achievement Award, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award, and the J. California Cooper Memorial Award. The daughter of Alabama sharecroppers, she taught herself how to write before going on to become the first and only member of her family to finish high school. She lives in Oakland, California and can be found online at MaryMonroe.org<br>&#xa0;

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