All the Single Ladies: A Novel (30 page)

New York Times
bestseller D
OROTHEA
B
ENTON
F
RANK
was born and raised on Sullivans Island, South Carolina. She resides in the New York area with her husband.

Dorothea Benton Frank’s most recent bestseller,
The Hurricane Sisters,
debuted at number three on the
New York Times
list, where it remained in the top twenty for six weeks. It was also a
USA Today
bestseller for four weeks, debuting at number eleven.

A contemporary voice of the south in the ranks of Anne Rivers Siddons and Pat Conroy, Dorothea Benton Frank is beloved from coast to coast, thanks to her bestsellers, including
The Last Original Wife, Porch Lights, Sullivans Island,
and
Plantation
.

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Also by Dorothea Benton Frank

The Hurricane Sisters

The Last Original Wife

Porch Lights

Folly Beach

Lowcountry Summer

Return to Sullivans Island

Bulls Island

The Christmas Pearl

The Land of Mango Sunsets

Full of Grace

Pawleys Island

Shem Creek

Isle of Palms

Plantation

Sullivans Island

Credits

Cover design by Laywan Kwan

Cover photograph © by Mong Multiply/Shutterstock

Author photograph © by Debbie Zammit

This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

ALL THE SINGLE LADIES.
Copyright © 2015 by Dorothea Benton Frank. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

ISBN 978-0-06-213256-7

EPub Edition JUNE 2015 ISBN 9780062132574

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