Your Oasis on Flame Lake
Author: Lorna Landvik
Best friends fast approaching forty in the small Minnesota town of Flame Lake, Devera and BiDi were recently voted ‘Least Changed’ at their twentieth high school reunion- a label neither one finds very appealing. For each craves a change in her life: Devera desires a break from her humdrum marital routine; BiDi longs to reconnect with her distant fourteen-year-old daughter….Read More
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