title: One Good Friend Deserves Another
author:  Lisa Verge Higgins 
description: "Engaging . . . Higgins scores with a richly told story of what every girl wants, and the friends who'd sacrifice everything to help her get it."<b><i><em>Publishers Weekly</em></i></b><br /><br />"Top Pick! 4 1/2 Stars! Higgins doesn't use flowery verse; she presents hard realities, dysfunction and, best of all, possibilities and hope...in a novel that you won't soon forget."<b><i><em>RT Book Reviews</em></i></b><br /><br />"Characters that could have been stock (the rich girl, the Trekkie programmer) have a depth that is strengthened by relationships with family, boyfriends, the past, and, most important, friends."<b><i><em>Booklist</em></i></b><br /><br />"Get the first 'Best Read' of 2011...a love story about what it really means to be a friend."<br /><b><i>Debbie Haupt, B&amp;N General Fiction Book Club on <em>The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship</em></i></b><br /><br />"Higgins writes with grace and humor, reminding us to hold tight to the ones we love."<b><i>Luanne Rice, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners</i> on <em>The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship</em></i></b><br /><br /><em>"The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship</em> is a lovely novel with moments of deeply moving insight into what it means to be a mother, a wife, and a friend. Read it and share it with your own friends-you'll be glad you did!"<b><i>Nancy Thayer, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Beachcombers</i> on <em>The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship</em></i></b><br /><br />"Full of humor, love, and life lessons, this is an uplifting and satisfying novel that lingers long after the last page."<b><i>Elizabeth Noble, bestselling author of <i>The Reading Group</i> and <em>The Girl Next Door </em>on<em> The Proper Care and Maintenance of Friendship</em></i></b>
zlib_text: The friendship of four young ladies has created an indestructible bond to
  protect one another from the perils of love and marriage . . .
  After the demise of her friend’s disastrous marriage, Mercedes Parsons isn’t
  about to let the widowed Wallflower of West Lane, Lady Aurora Radcliff,
  undertake another perilous trip to the altar. At least, not before the
  bridegroom-to-be is thoroughly investigated. If only Mercy could stop her
  uncharacteristic daydreaming about Wesley Renshaw’s charm, his intellect,
  his dashing good looks. After all, the earl has already set his sights on her
  best friend! She must keep her wits about her and avoid giving into
  temptation.
  Wesley is both irritated and intrigued by the machinations of Mercy—He
  cannot let her cleverness and beauty distract him. He needs to marry her
  friend, Aurora, so he can reclaim his family’s ancestral home. A wrong he
  has hoped to right his entire life. Besides, who is penniless spinster
  Mercedes Parsons to decide whom he can and canno