title: Swept Away: The Vanishing Art of Broom Making
author: Karen Hobbs
description: Karen Hobbs teaches broom making, gourding, and basketry at conventions and retreats around the US. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Cisco, and their rescue dogs, Layla and Ivy.
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  # Late Broomers
  
  
  ### A Widow’s Bay Novel
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Rebecca Regnier
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Text copyright ©2019
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Rebecca Regnier All Rights Reserved
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and
  incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a
  fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or
  actual events is purely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0003.html#2RHM0-66b6d7cfaff94932ad5d0773701f2531)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0004.html#3Q280-66b6d7cfa