



She also meets (and makes out with in a truck behind the local bar) handsome elementary school principal and "depressive lumberjack" Kyle Archer, a widowed father of two. After a prickly start, Margot gets to know her extended family and her father, Stan. The family of Margot's absent father welcomes her to Lake Sackett, Ga., to work for the McCready Family Funeral Home and Bait Shop. Out of a job and facing the prospect of losing her apartment, she is suddenly contacted by an aunt that she never knew existed and reluctantly accepts her job offer. Margot Cary was a talented event planner in Chicago, looking forward to making partner in her firm, until an unmitigated disaster involving flamingos run amok got her fired. Harper (Where the Wild Things Bite) puts her own spin on a fish-out-of-water tale in this romantic comedy.

Will Margot reel in her handsome fish, or will she have to release her latest catch? The two of them hit it off, but not everybody is happy to see an outsider snapping up one of the town's most eligible gentleman. Elementary school principal Kyle Archer is a fellow fish-out-of-water who volunteers to show Margot the picture-postcard side of Southern living. Now she’s blackballed by the gala set and in dire need of a fresh start-and apparently the McCreadys are in need of an event planner with a tarnished reputation.Īs Margot finds her footing in a town where everybody knows not only your name, but what you had for dinner last Saturday night and what you’ll wear to church on Sunday morning, she grudgingly has to admit that there are some things Lake Sackett does better than Chicago-including the dating prospects. She’s riding high until one event goes tragically, spectacularly wrong. As an elite event planner, Margot’s rubbed elbows with the cream of Chicago society, and made elegance and glamour her business. Margot Cary has spent her life immersed in everything Lake Sackett is not. And true to form in small Southern towns, family business becomes everybody’s business. (What, you have a problem with one-stop shopping?) Two McCready brothers started two separate businesses in the same building back in 1928, and now it’s become one big family affair. Nestled on the shore of Lake Sackett, Georgia is the McCready Family Funeral Home and Bait Shop. From beloved author Molly Harper comes the first novel in the contemporary romance series, Southern Eclectic, about a big-city party planner who finds true love in a small Georgia town.
