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Susan Bagby
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Author, Susan Bagby, spent most of her life working with children and youth as a speech pathologist. After retirement, she moved back to her hometown of Akron, Ohio, and her life-long dream to write romance books came true when she found a home with Sands Press Publishing in 2021. Her debut novel, Christmas Wish Upon a Star, was published in 2022 and was a semi-finalist for the 2023 CIBA Chatelaine Book Awards for Romance Fiction. Her second book, Home for Love released in October of 2023 and was a second-place winner for the Romance-Wholesome category in the 2024 Spring Book Fest Awards. The third book, Sweet Ridge Hearts, in the Maple Ridge series, was released in the fall of 2024.
Susan belongs to the Great Lakes Fiction Writers organization and to Romance Writers of America (RWA). She is presently working on a new small-town romance series and loves seeing new characters come to life. When she’s not writing, she loves reading, walking in the woods, yoga, Pilates and playing the piano. She’s a firm believer that dreams do come true.
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Book 1:
Sweet Ridge Hearts
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Summary
Career-driven Katy Flanagan desperately wants to become the creative director of the Martin and Lewis marketing agency. But when she loses the promotion and gets dumped by her boyfriend the same day, Katy flees New York for a small-town break with her cousin Christine.
Yet even in country-quiet Maple Ridge, Katy’s skills can be useful, and she’s prepared to jump in to help Christine win a competition for her Sweet Ridge Bakery. What she’s not prepared for is handsome bakery manager Derek Higgins.
A veteran dealing with the aftermath of PTSD, Derek is a lone wolf, and he likes it that way. Being forced to work with a spirited businesswoman and her healthy ego is a challenge every step of the way. But the stakes are too high for him to give up helping his boss.
As the competition heats up, so does the chemistry with Katy—until she’s offered a new job in another city. Now she has to decide whether to take a risk and start her own company, or become the creative director of a new, successful firm, which is everything she ever wanted. At the same time, Derek must face his own issues when personal tragedy wraps him in survivor’s guilt, leaving him unable to forgive himself for past actions.
While Derek seeks to heal the wounds of a haunting past, and Katy searches for the courage to face her fears and forge a new path, what will become of their relationship?

Book 2:
Home for Love
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17.00
Summary
The life of Emmy-award-winning producer, Maggy Anderson, is abruptly interrupted when her father suffers a heart attack at his office in New York. She wastes no time leaving Los Angeles to be with him. Jim Anderson, an entertainment and publishing mogul, survives the surgery and returns to his family estate in the Berkshires to recuperate. Maggy insists on helping him out at home and with his business while her primetime television show, LA Docs, a medical drama, is on hiatus. But Maggy is thrown off her game when unexpected chemistry with her father’s doctor, Mark Richards, jolts her into a tailspin. Mark recently took over a private practice in the small town of Maple Ridge and has secrets of his own stemming from his tours in Afghanistan and challenges of PTSD that still haunt him. But day after day, circumstances bring them together unexpectedly, and their feelings for each other grow stronger and cannot be denied. Unable to avoid him and faced with the reality of almost losing her father, Maggy finds herself at a crossroads, questioning her happiness and choices in life, and feels further challenged when she discovers the contents of her mother’s prayer box in the attic.

Book 3:
Christmas Wish Upon a Star
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17.00
Summary
When an unexpected event in the children’s television world of New York catapults Alison Rockwell, a young assistant, into the role of head producer for the first time, she finds herself whisked away to the country, solely responsible for the network’s biggest and most important Christmas production. With the threat of cancellation, if ratings don’t improve, Alison finds herself depending on the help of her vivacious yet somewhat mysterious host, Jake Sanders.
Jake Sanders, a handsome widower with a nine-year-old daughter, is still reeling from the grief and guilt of losing his wife three years prior, but is taken by surprise with this spirited producer. Alison eventually finds out Jake Sanders has hidden secrets of his own and her trust in him is shaken. But when a conspiring boss determined to undermine her efforts becomes a threat, Alison knows she needs Jake’s help in order to succeed and continues to work with him, but can’t ignore the intense chemistry growing between them. As events transpire Alison finds herself faced with an inner dilemma of making choices in her career and following her heart. Will she wait for Jake to make a commitment to her, or will she choose her fate on her own?
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