Cassandra King Books In Order

The Sunday Wife

A captivating novel about one woman’s journey toward independence and the life changing friendship that guides her there.

Married for 20 years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of the role of a Sunday wife. When her husband is assigned to a larger and more demanding community in the Florida panhandle, Dean becomes fast friends with Augusta Holderfield, a woman whose good looks and extravagant habits immediately entrance her. As their friendship evolves, Augusta challenges Dean to break free from her traditional role as the preacher’s wife. Just as Dean is questioning everything she has always valued, a tragedy occurs, providing the catalyst for change in ways she never could have imagined.

Making Waves

In a small Alabama town in Zion County, life is finally looking up for twenty year old Donnette Sullivan. Having just inherited her aunt’s old house and beauty shop, she’s taken over the business, and her husband Tim, recently crippled in an accident, is beginning to cope not just with his disabilities but also with the loss of his dreams. Once a promising artist who gave up art for sports, Tim paints a sign for Donnette’s shop, Making Waves. The raising of the sign causes ripples through the town. In a sequence of events sometimes funny, sometimes tragic leading up to the surprise denouement, the lives of Donnette, Tim, and others in their small circle of family and friends are unavoidably affected. Making Waves is about love and friendship and betrayal, unfulfilled desires and heartbreaking losses. Once the waves of change surge through Zion County, the lives of its people are inextricably altered.

The Same Sweet Girls

The new novel by the celebrated author of The Sunday Wife chronicles the lives of a tight knit group of lifelong friends. None of The Same Sweet Girls are really girls anymore and none of them have actually ever been that sweet. But this spirited group of Southern women, who have been holding biannual reunions ever since they were together in college, are nothing short of compelling. There’s Julia Stovall, the First Lady of Alabama, who, despite her public veneer, is a down to earth gal who only wants to know who her husband is sneaking out with late at night. There’s Lanier Sanders, whose husband won custody of their children after he found out about her fling with a colleague. Then there’s Astor Deveaux, a former Broadway showgirl who simply can’t keep her flirtations in check. And Corinne Cooper, whose incredible story comes to light as the novel unfolds.

Queen of Broken Hearts

The national bestselling author of The Same Sweet Girls and The Sunday Wife returns with another compulsively readable novel It’s not easy being the Queen of Broken Hearts. Just ask Clare, who has willingly assumed the mantle while her career as a divorce coach thrives. Now she s preparing to open a permanent home for the retreats she leads, on a slice of breathtaking property on the Alabama coast owned by her mother in law. Make that former mother in law, a colorful eccentric who teaches Clare much about love and sacrifice and living freely. When Clare s marriage ends in tragedy, her work becomes the sole focus of her life. While Clare has no problem helping the hundreds of men and women who seek her advice to mend their broken hearts, healing her own is another matter entirely. Falling in love again is the last thing she wants. So when Lex a charismatic, charming, burly sea captain moves to town to run the marina, Clare insists they remain friends and nothing more. But even though she fights it, she begins to fall for him and then finds she has a rival, his estranged wife Annalee. A story infused with all the flavors, textures, and intrigues of a small Southern town, with a rich, resonant center, Queen of Broken Hearts is a bold step forward for Cassandra King.