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ONE GOOD FRIEND DESERVES ANOTHER
Dhara, Kelly, Marta and Wendy have been the closest of friends since college, so close, that after a series of romantic disasters, they bond together to create rules of relationships meant to keep their hearts safe. Those rules seemed to have worked, until Marta discovers that her hot boyfriend is married, Kelly begins a risky love affair, Wendy inches closer to a pre-marital infidelity, and, most shocking of all, Indian-American Dhara suddenly agrees to an arranged marriage. As old relationships crumble and dangerous new ones emerge, each women must decide how much she’d risk—for love, for happiness, and most importantly, for each another.
THE PROPER CARE AND MAINTENANCE OF FRIENDSHIP

When three women each receive a letter from a dying friend, old loyalties drive them to fulfill her last wishes. But those last wishes turn out to be world-rocking tasks that threaten to upend their ordinary lives. With a career at risk, a marriage in jeopardy, and a heart in terrible danger of breaking, these three women discover an essential truth: The only thing that can save them is friendship.

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“Get the first ‘Best Read’ of 2011…a love story about what it really means to be a friend.”
--Debbie Haupt, B&N General Fiction Book Club

THE PROPER CARE AND MAINTENANCE OF FRIENDSHIP, January 2011

Winner of the 2011 Golden Leaf Award for BEST SINGLE TITLE.
Anointed one of the "Best 20 Novels of 2011" by Barnes & Noble's General Fiction Book Club.
"Full of humor, love, and life lessons, this is an uplifting and satisfying novel that lingers long after the last page."
--Elizabeth Noble, bestselling author of The Reading Group and The Girl Next Door.

“Higgins writes with grace and humor, reminding us to hold tight to the ones we love.”
—Luanne Rice, New York Times bestselling author of The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners


Dear Friends, Readers & Surfers,

I'm very excited to be writing again! Many of you know me from my days as a romance writer (see the tab "My Wicked Past.") Alhough I've switched genres--now I'm writing mainstream women's fiction--there will always be some romance in my novels. In fact, my next release, ONE GOOD FRIEND DESERVES ANOTHER (coming in 2012) is about four women on the far side of thirty-five, trying to figure out their romantic lives ....

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Lisa Verge Higgins is the RITA-nominated author of fourteen novels that have been published worldwide and translated into fifteen languages—quite a switch for this former PhD candidate in chemistry. Currently this opera loving, novice archer and mother of three is finding inspiration in suburban family life, create heartwarming—and heartbreaking—new stories. THE PROPER CARE AND MAINTENANCE OF FRIENDSHIP, her first foray into mainstream women’s fiction, won the 2011 Golden Leaf Award for Best Single Title and was anointed a top-twenty book-of-the-year by Barnes & Noble's General Fiction Book Club. Her next book, ONE GOOD FRIEND DESERVES ANOTHER, will hit the shelves in June 2012.

Lisa currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and their three teenage daughters, who never fail to make life interesting.


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