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"fine contemporary romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted February 20, 2005

In Joyful, Georgia, County Prosecutor Johnny Walker learns that Emma Jean Frasier was returning to town after being away for almost a decade. Johnny remembers escorting Emma Jean to the prom in her only year in town, but they were caught naked in a nearby gazebo as passion had Read more...

"An excellent small town story!"
Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted April 15, 2005

Leslie Kelly does small towns like she knows exactly what it's all about! Since I am from a small town, I just eat up her stories like fried chicken and homemade gravy. Yum! Joyful has its share of quirky characters and equally quirky stories! The first thing Johnny Walker, Read more...

Summary

When she was good, she was very, very good. . .
When Emma Frasier returns home to joyful, Georgia, she's greeted with the kinds of winks and lusty grins one might offer. . .an adult film star?

But when she was bad. . .
Thanks to small-town gossip and citizens who clearly need to get a life, Joyful's residents think Emma Jean is the "famous star" building a strip club in town. And that her barely concealed. . .uh, attributesare the ones gracing the new interstate billboard.

She was better.
As if being taken for a blue movie queen isn't rattling enough, there's Johnny Walker, the local bad boy turned good-a man who tempts Emma to be just as wild and wicked as Joyful thinks she is.