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The Lost Queen of Crocker County

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The Lost Queen of Crocker County

For fans of books like THE READERS OF BROKEN WHEEL RECOMMEND, a feel-good story of going home again to get things right.

Crocker County crowns a new Corn Queen every year, but Jane Willow's the one you would remember. She can't forget Iowa, either. Even though she fled to LA to become a film critic years ago, home was always there behind her.

But when a family tragedy happens, she's forced to drive back to Crocker County. The rolling farmlands can't much hide the things she left behind: the best friend she abandoned who now runs a meatloaf hotline, the childhood front porch that sits hauntingly empty and that fiasco of a Corn Fest that spun her life in a different direction.

Before Jane can escape her past a second time, disaster strikes, and she will have to find a way to right her mistakes and save herself from her regrets. An unflinchingly love letter to the Midwest that unfolds through a celebration of movies, this ferociously endearing novel brings home the saving grace of second chances.

The Lost Queen of Crocker County
by Elizabeth Leiknes

  • Publication Date: July 10, 2018
  • Genres: Fiction, Women's Fiction
  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
  • ISBN-10: 1492663794
  • ISBN-13: 9781492663799