January 1, 2010

Happy New Year!

This is a banner year for me for several reasons: my eldest child will be graduating high school in May and starting college, and it will also mark the 10th anniversary of me being a published author with 11 books already published and books 12 and 13 scheduled for the year. I don't know which is more startling! It truly seems like yesterday Meghan was starting her first day at kindergarten and I was giddy with excitement when I signed my first book contract. It's nearly impossible to believe that a whole decade, filled with so many milestones, has passed in such a blur. I'm nearly breathless with anticipation as I eagerly await what the next decade will bring.

I'm excited to announce that my next book, ON FOLLY BEACH, will be released on May 4th. The cover is perfect, and I hope it will get everybody in a beach reading mood as we all wait out the rest of winter. My second book for the year, FALLING HOME, will be released in the Fall (a more specific date will be posted later). This will be a re-worked trade paperback edition (with a new cover) of my 2002 book of the same title. For those of you who have asked me about how to find a copy of that book--just a few more months to wait! I'll post that cover and release date as soon as I have them.

I wish each and every one of you a healthy and happy New Year--and may your 2010 be filled with great books!

Happy reading!

AVAILABLE November 3, 2009 at a bookstore near you or your favorite online bookseller.

About THE GIRL ON LEGARE STREET:
Book 2 out of 4 in the Tradd Street series!
New American Library, ISBN# 978-0451227997
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For more info on this book, please click here (pdf)

On Sale November 3, 2009

Once again, Karen White invites her readers into the haunting beauty of South Carolina. It's here that realtor Melanie Middleton confronts the past--and hopes she doesn't have to dig up her own...

There was a time when Melanie's dysfunctional family was out of sight and mind, and her only worries were her monthly sales figures, what shade of beige to paint her low-maintenance condo, and whether she was ready to make charming journalist Jack Trenholm a permanent fixture in her life. Those days are over.

After receiving a deadly premonition, Melanie's mother, who deserted her more than thirty years ago, suddenly returns to Charleston to protect her. But all Ginnette Prioleau Middleton does is remind Melanie of how little they have in common--except for their ability to communicate with ghosts...

And now Ginnette is moving into their ancestral home on Legare Street, and she needs Melanie's advice on restoring it and her sixth sense to talk to the dead that inhabit it. But Ginnette's return has awakened a dark spirit--whose strength has been growing for decades--and who is ready for revenge. With Jack's help, Melanie and her mother must find a way to work together to fight its malevolent presence and save what's left of their family...

Reviews

"Southern Living meets the Southern unliving! A lovely read that's elegant, spooky, romantic, and scary--Karen White gives you everything you could want!"
—New York Times bestselling author Kerryln Sparks

"White has concocted a wonderful combination of ghostly presences, a bit of mystery and some romance. Set in the South, with all its traditional history, the reader is drawn right in."
—RT BookReviews Magazine

THE GIRL ON LEGARE STREET is the highly anticipated sequel to THE HOUSE ON TRADD STREET. Once again, White masterfully captures the essence of Charlestonian life in a haunting tale of betrayal, lust, and most importantly family honor. Through her vivid descriptions and spell- binding prose, she brings together the past with the present in a supernatural tale definitely worth the read.
—Jennifer Vido, Fresh Fiction