Magnolia Dawn

Book excerpt: The South comes alive in Book three of New York Times bestselling author Erica Spindler's fan-favorite Blossoms of the South series. Magnolia Dawn All his life, Rush Cousins has been troubled by the mystery of his shadowed past. His search for his roots leads him to Ashland Plantation, an elegant, decaying estate deep in the Mississippi Delta, where he presents himself as nothing more than a handyman in need of work. The disguise brings him closer to Ashland's long-buried secrets…but also forces him to distance himself from his sudden passion for the plantation's beautiful mistress, Annabelle Ames, a woman whose lonely obsession with the past strangely mirrors his own…