Keys to the Castle
by Donna Ball
Berkley Trade
Literature and Fiction: Women's Fiction
January 4, 2011
ISBN-10: 0425239306
ISBN-13: 9780425239308
Available in: Trade Size
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Keys to the Castle
by Donna Ball
The author of the Ladybug Farm series delivers an exhilarating new novel of a middle-aged woman who follows her heart to love and happiness.
When a dashing French poet swept forty-something workaholic Sara Graves off her feet, she did something completely unexpected: She married him. Then three weeks later he died, leaving her a house she can’t afford to keep in a country she’s never been to. Traveling to France to settle the estate, Sara is shocked to discover that her husband wasn’t the impoverished poet he claimed to be—and that the estate he left her is a 400-year-old crumbling castle in the Loire Valley. Now Sara must sell Chateau Rondelais before it (not to mention her late husband’s disarmingly handsome lawyer and best friend) makes her question her decision to leave—and opens her heart to change and all its unexpected possibilities.
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Donna Ball's Bio
Donna Ball, also known as Donna Boyd, Rebecca Flanders, Donna Carlyle, Leigh Bristol and Taylor Brady, published her first book in 1982. Since then she has written over fifty books for such publishers as Doubleday, St. Martin's Press, Warner, Dutton/Signet, Zebra, Pinnacle, Harlequin/Silhouette and Avon Books.
She is known for her work in women's fiction and suspense, as well as supernatural fantasy, woman-in-jeopardy and western adventure. Her books have been translated into well over a dozen languages and have appeared in virtually every country in the world.
Her first book, WINNERS (St. Martin's Press), was serialized in Good Housekeeping magazine. She has given numerous print and broadcast interviews and has been quoted by such publications as the Detroit Free Press, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, T.V. Guide, and Family Circle, as well as having appeared on such television programs as Entertainment Tonight and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.
Donna Ball's ancestors were one of the first pioneer families of North Georgia, and her family still lives on the land they purchased from the Cherokee in 1782. Ball lives in a restored turn-of-the-century barn in the heart of the Blue Ridge Divide. She serves on the executive boards of several community service groups, and in her spare time writes, edits and publishes newsletters for Friends of the Library and local animal rescue groups. Hobbies include oil painting, hiking and dog obedience training.